The navigation of blogging could be considered similar, in some ways, to having conversations about the work with peers face-to-face. This is because in both scenarios, a user/converser will bring up a topic, with a small discussion and receive responses from others, either in the form of comments in person and blog comments. Similar to real life conversation, these posts or responses will then be replied to and so a discussion, perhaps involving new users/converser's who have heard/read the conversation so far, will occur.
The only difference would be the time as the real life conversation would end after a few minutes/hours whereas the online version could last weeks, with replies not being posted for several hours or days sometimes. Also a lack of physical interaction could give a different path of discussion within the conversation or even a different outcome, for example, facial expressions, body language and immediate reactions.
I know that you have had soem probkesm getting started Issy so I'm pleased to see you up and running here. When you blog, remember to bring in ideas and references from the lectures and the readings so that I can see you are picking up on the unit ideas and showing them off - and don't forget to use the Forum to alert people to your comments!
ReplyDeleteApologies for the spelling in the last post - I keep forgetting there is no spell-checker in this blogosphere
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