Thursday, 7 February 2008
Week 2 Task 2
The closest thing that i can realate the blogs to, that is offline, is writing letters, because it can take a few days for any one to reply, face to face conversation is instant. Maybe text could be similar because if you do not have your phone on you at the time, the reply is not going to be instance, same as if you are not signed o to the internet at the same time as someone posts on your blog, the reply is not going to be instant either. I think that there is definatly a moe relaxed way of writing when blogging, you do not feel under as much pressure to write grammatically sound sentances, and it would not be frowned upon to write "u" instead of "you". I think the relationships that are formed on our blogs are slightly different to those that are formed on blogs that are out there on the web, because for one on ours we know alot of the people who re posting on them personally, where as if you had one that wasnt for you uni course, you may not know the people that are posting on them, therefore false relatioships can be formed, and people can claime to be somebody there not. Where as on our blogs, we have at least had a few face to face conversations with everyone that is posting on your blog. When i am blogging i know that my audience consists of lecturers as well as students, therefore i believe i am writing in away that is appropriate for both, in that it is not to formal, so students dont get bored of reading what you are writing, and so that lecturers think that what i am writing is relevant. I'd say that the image i am portraying of myself on this blog, is not really who i am, but i feel that it is appropriate for the setting that this blog is in. Alot of the people who will read thsi blog will no what i am really like and know that this is maybe not how i would speak to them, over face book or msn. I hink that after a few weeks, of getting into the swing of things, i probablyk will feel part of the bloggers community, but as it stands at the moment i dont!
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i dont really think were a blogging community really, like u said because we all pretty much know eachother, its like an MCC blogging community, were pretty insular!!
yah, i agree, i think it's easier to understand what evryone's blogging about becuase were all studying the same thing and because we know eachother we know eachother's style of wrting and explaing and aren't gonna be afraid to disagree with people we know or put across out own point of view whereas with strangers we might b
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Hey I agree with Alyson... I think to blog about something you have to have a mutual interest in the subject. We have been given a subject to write about - yes maybe it's something we SHOULD be interested in and maybe some of us have actually started to enjoy blogging about it - but at the same time none of us thought enough about it to start a blog off our own backs.
However, blogging has probably made us think a little more about how these things affect our lives. Maybe we've realised that there are forms of communication that we can use to make a difference - far more advanced in making a difference than the stands necessary before. Seems the only difference is modern ways are lazy ways.
yeh, i think since like reading more and more people's blogs it's easier to see how everyone is affected in different ways by all these new forms of media. Even us using blogs to do work instead of face 2 face seminars shows how much technology has influenced even education.
Kayleigh,
Your comparion with letter writing is good! In what way do you mean that the image you're portraying on your blog is 'not really you?' When you're in a real-time seminar do you feel people know the 'real you' there? If so, how is this different? I was pleased with the discussion that ensued. Excellent work from you all!
All the best
Emma
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