I think that my blog is useful in communicating my own opinions on things that I am learning for this unit. If I find anything that is interesting, or something that I think is hard to explain but I had made a way of understanding it in my own head, then I think it's a good way of keeping note of it all so that myself and others can benefit from it.
It's not really a direct communication provider though because although whoever is reading it is directly recieving my thoughts, I might have posted it days ago, same if they have something to say back to me through a comment that will help me - I might not see it till days later.
I think that blogging encourages us to communicate with other students on the course, as we are reading/commenting on peoples blogs who we probably dont speak to in real life, it would then be rude not to say hello or something if we then seen them in person if it was a regular occurance that we spoke to them via blogs.
My audience is fellow students and my tutor who is marking me! I tend to write non-short hand anyway so havent changed my writing form, I think that this suits blogs as for some people short 'text' language is really annoying/hard too read.
Hopefully the forums will pick up soon and we will be developing some seminar like discussions on there some time soon!
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yeah i think its good that it's encouraging us to participate in discussions maybe with people we wouldn't usually communicate with much in class.
and i like how when we think of something good we can just come online and reply to someone or add it to 1 of our own posts.
yeah a agree with most of your points as well.
However I really do believe that posting everything all the time can be much more time consuming and not as immediate as in a real-life lecture discussion.
Although for some people it is easier to write on blogs to express their opinion then to talk in front of the whole class, as you said, I don't think I could do ONNLY online lectures. I think that the face to face contact is really important as well during a discussion (and quite honestly so far abit more exiting)
Sophia I'd definately agree that it is rather time consuming! I am always too busy posting on my own blog and have been not commenting as much as I want too on others. I think that real life seminars would teach us just aswell as this unit would, but this is something different and as we no longer have a practical unit (which was also very time consuming!) i think this has sort of took that units place!
I like how you can develop your own opinions on here without being influenced to how you should be viewing things as well.
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