I have a little cartoon comment on my office door about blogs... but I'm not unsupportive. I think this is a good idea if people get involved. I tried this with Media Production staff ( it's at http://mpstaff.blogspot.com/?zx=27b5b579d9f1ffe9 ) but no-one looked at it so it remains with two posts on it and has lain dormant since August.
But who is this for? Is it staff or students? (just so we don't put any real nude photos of ourselves on it ).
Media Studies 2.0 sound s fun but we should be up to about 3.6 by now and Jill won't allow an order for Lego.
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I agree probably there will be less interest at the level of the department than at individual courses. But on the main point, do you fancy lecturing on any of the topics in the course.
ReplyDeleteThe blog is locked so that only staff in the department can post comments or author.it is always possible that students may stumble across it (though unlikely as without some SEO it is about the zillionth School blog in the google universe).
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm hoping that staff will at least get in the habit of checking it to see what stuff is going on week by week.
people will only read blogs if it saves time. So it has to dosplace something else, such as weekly face to face meetings. Those meetings I have to say I don't like very much because they cut into premium time on wednesday middle of the day, whereas a blog you can read and contribute anytime. Also a blog creates instant minutes, action points and 'to do' aspects. There's no minutes at school meetings (I am ot suggesting that there should be). But with a blog its like a 'to do' list as well. But to have a blog AS WELL as the meetings - that's not going to work. The whole point is these things (like mail and mobile phones) make things easier. There's a transition phase now where people have blogs and CMS but at the same time they have the physical meetings as well - like you will probably remember that time when you had to send an email AND a letter (it lasted a couple of years). At a L+T it all came clear to me, that he dnager is using things like blogs as "yet another thing" that people have to do, without taking away the thing that the bloig replaces.
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