it takes time
I have recently given an introductory lecture to the 2nd and 3rd years on blogs. I always ask them to listen and watch Mena Trott on www.ted.com. The 2nd years will create blogs this year and the 3rd years will [mostly] revive them. I have had mixed feelings about blogging from the students_ I think one has a love hate relationship with them. I know they take time. From experience it can take me up to 3 or 4 hours looking for hyperlinks, researching, adding images and video. Simply the writing just takes time... simply it takes time to make ones self clear to make sure you say everything you want to and haven't left anything out...
...notice something *weird
* in a nice way
* in a nice way
I was amused with some of the candid responses by the 3rd year's on re-discovering and reviving their blogs. I have asked permission to publicize these from 3 students: Shan, Netty, and Lindy_ see links to their blogs and screenshots below.
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blog as oxymoron?
(figure of speech where contradictory terms appear)
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| Stephen Shore: road trip journal: www.americansuburbx.com |
"Blogs are oxymoronically, public diaries, where bloggers play with
exposure, others’ and their own. Some use handles for anonymity, but
with fingerprints in cyberspace and with erasure near impossible,
nothing’s lost and everyone can be found. Billions of disclosures light
up the Internet with electric abandon. While “private” and “public” have
for years been theorized as permeable spaces, even illusory divisions,
people once lived those separate realities. Now they have actually
blurred, and privacy and secrecy are becoming quaint ideas. IDs and
personal information are hacked and jacked constantly, and individuals
adjust their desires, needs, and aims in sync with technology’s
capabilities. In this electronic revolution, as written and filmed
self-reportage and confessions choke the virtual highways, voyeurism and
exhibitionism are just normal."
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A blog is merely a tool that lets you do anything from change the world to share your shopping list.
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(man with a moustache)
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