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What this blog is about
This is the record of my journey working with colleagues at The Sheffield College to develop and offer an online foundation degree in eCommunications
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Well here I am making a big push, Phil. I was fascinated by your comment just now that blogs are interactive. You're right, of course - but there's a limit to how interactive they are. And when I look at the comments on this blog, I think you're great to have hung onto that fact.
Nice to see you're maintaining the blog, Phil! :)
I'm picking up on Kate's comment about blog interactivity and commenting. I've found - running a personal 'photoblog' - that you hit a stage where you get disheartened by lack of comments and it's easy to view that lack of engagement as "well, nobody's looking so what's the point in carrying on!?".
The trick is, I think, to let go of the expectation (if you start off with any!) of having lots of vibrant conversation around blog posts.
The real strength of running a project blog is that viewers can use the RSS feed built into blogs to allow them to use a platform of their own choosing to keep a track of where you're at. When you consider that someone in the community might be tracking over 50 blogs of interest you can see why being able to have them all pulled into one place - be that an online reader such as Google Reader or a dedicated desktop app - makes things a lot easier and more accessible than a bunch of separate websites.
The comments? Well, that's a bonus prize that you may or may not win ;)
I would like to hear more about how your tutors are finding using these tools though and how they feel they compare to, let's say, using the 'traditional' VLE approach. Of course, the whole thing will really start picking up pace when the students start, eh! :)
Sorry, one other thing.
I really would encourage you to make this public. I think you're doing a good job with updating it but it's a shame nobody gets to see it. Also it won't let me subscribe to the Atom feed as it says I don't have permission to read this blog...
...Strange that, seeing as I'm writing this don't you think!
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