– Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter – īlogs were once the outlet of choice for people who wanted to express themselves online. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream - or at least an ambition - unfulfilled. – When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone … – Īccording to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. Source: Networked Learning Conference 2010 The use of forums was associated with fast paced challenging interaction, relationships based on sharing of ideas, more open discussion and more links to the discussed themes and bigger picture. To a large extent, blogging and forum use correlated with specific individual learning styles and media affordances: the use of blogs was associated with the ability to create personal space for personal learning, quiet reflection and developing personal relationships with bloggers and others. A discussion is not a discussion without a reply. Reply, on the other hand, implies that participation is explicitly requested by the poster. The word comment for weblogs implies that the author does not need further participation to reach a goal- comment if you want. This subtle difference in syntax reveals a difference in the roles. Weblog topics have comments and message board topics have replies. Weblogs and Message Boards both allow for responses from the community- new topics can be responded-to by others. Source: International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning Perhaps the blog’s greatest relative advantage is for non formal and open education that takes learning beyond the traditional course. However, its lack of safety and the current inefficiencies of linking and threading messages present greater challenges than the more familiar threaded discussion or email list. We conclude that blogging has distinct advantages over more common threaded discussion in its support of style, ownership and identity, and its public nature may enhance resolution phases of cognitive presence. In this article we examine the advantages and disadvantages of this form of Internet-based interaction using the Community of Inquiry model with its focus on social, cognitive and teaching presences. Weblogs or blogs are being heralded as the “next big thing” in education. You can read more about the differences between blogs and web forum discussions: I am afraid that by using blog posts and comments as a web forum we are returning back to the ugly type of threaded web forums used in the ’90s, I prefer the linear (flat) discussions. I want to add to Brandon Davis-Shannon post about Distributed Conversations I bookmarked 6 and wrote my comments to each post. Last night I read about 15 POTCERT11 posts. Just add the Aboutme tag to Comments, Posts, Profile tags and then your Diigo Aboutme tag will be your bundle. If you follow my ABOUTME bundle you are following my professional digital lifeĭiigo doesn’t offer bundles. It includes my COMMENTS, ONLINESAPIENS_POSTS, PROFILE tags. – I bookmark all posts that link to me or my blog: Tags: PROFILE, POTCERT11ĭelicious has Bundles. – I bookmark all my posts: Tags: ONLINESAPIENS_POSTS, POTCERT11 – I bookmark all the posts I would like to comment. – Whenever I read a post I like, I bookmark it to Delicious: Tag: POTCERT11 How do I use Delicious in any online course, like POTCERT11? Delicious is my favorite web learning tool!!!!! I have been bookmarking web pages and sites to Delicious since 2005. Diigo and Delicious are both social bookmarking tools.
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