If you haven’t blogged yet, it’s not too late...but if you have slipped then get back on it!
If you haven’t blogged yet, it’s not too late...
As the third activity of Week 16 states it's not too late to start, but for those of us who did start, and then promptly stopped, perhaps the challenge of this activity is different.
Part of the activity asks us to look at what we want to get out of a blog - which oddly enough was part of my TMA submission for what I would change in an activity- I discussed more of a focus on what we wanted to get out of blogging/what type of blog, rather than worrying about what to write, which is what I initially did...and as there was no theme, promptly ran out of things to write once I had written it (Maybe I should have read ahead in week 16 before writing that bit).
So getting back on the horse, seems to be the analogy for this activity, and sometimes getting back on the horse is harder than getting on it for the first time (I write this as someone with little experience of riding horses). For myself I let the reigns slip as I was not sure why I was blogging (other than because the H800 course wanted me to), and from a lot of what I have read and discovered about blogging, it is a personal activity that requires self motivation and a desire to blog, therefore I wonder if part of the problem for putting the reigns down was because my motivation for riding was limited, and not really realised. Am I motivated to blog, or am I doing it purely to satisfy the H800 module?
The level of engagement across our cohort is quite inconsistent, Steve for example has posted quite a consistent stream of intelligent and interesting posts, others (myself being a good (poor) example) have posted less. So my conclusions are- 1. to try and get back on the horse, 2. To be more consistent in my approach to blogging, and 3. to work out what I want to get out of blogging, so that its not just the H800 motivation to push me, but my own realised desire to blog.
Activity 3 suggests some questions to help think about what you want to get from a blog. So my next few posts will explore these questions from Kerawalla.
a) Negotiating the public-private nature of blogs: do you write your blog mainly for yourself or for others to read? How do you feel about making your thoughts and life events publicly available to [whomever]?
b) The course community: has blogging made any difference to the extent to which you feel part of a community? Who are the members of that community?
c) Comments you give and receive: do you get many comments? Do you read them? How do you feel about the quality and usefulness of the comments you get?
d) Writing style and presentation: have you adopted a particular style of writing in your blog? Are you worried about spelling or grammar mistakes?
And here is a picture of a horse.
As the third activity of Week 16 states it's not too late to start, but for those of us who did start, and then promptly stopped, perhaps the challenge of this activity is different.
Part of the activity asks us to look at what we want to get out of a blog - which oddly enough was part of my TMA submission for what I would change in an activity- I discussed more of a focus on what we wanted to get out of blogging/what type of blog, rather than worrying about what to write, which is what I initially did...and as there was no theme, promptly ran out of things to write once I had written it (Maybe I should have read ahead in week 16 before writing that bit).
So getting back on the horse, seems to be the analogy for this activity, and sometimes getting back on the horse is harder than getting on it for the first time (I write this as someone with little experience of riding horses). For myself I let the reigns slip as I was not sure why I was blogging (other than because the H800 course wanted me to), and from a lot of what I have read and discovered about blogging, it is a personal activity that requires self motivation and a desire to blog, therefore I wonder if part of the problem for putting the reigns down was because my motivation for riding was limited, and not really realised. Am I motivated to blog, or am I doing it purely to satisfy the H800 module?
The level of engagement across our cohort is quite inconsistent, Steve for example has posted quite a consistent stream of intelligent and interesting posts, others (myself being a good (poor) example) have posted less. So my conclusions are- 1. to try and get back on the horse, 2. To be more consistent in my approach to blogging, and 3. to work out what I want to get out of blogging, so that its not just the H800 motivation to push me, but my own realised desire to blog.
Activity 3 suggests some questions to help think about what you want to get from a blog. So my next few posts will explore these questions from Kerawalla.
a) Negotiating the public-private nature of blogs: do you write your blog mainly for yourself or for others to read? How do you feel about making your thoughts and life events publicly available to [whomever]?
b) The course community: has blogging made any difference to the extent to which you feel part of a community? Who are the members of that community?
c) Comments you give and receive: do you get many comments? Do you read them? How do you feel about the quality and usefulness of the comments you get?
d) Writing style and presentation: have you adopted a particular style of writing in your blog? Are you worried about spelling or grammar mistakes?
And here is a picture of a horse.
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