edublogging | Walking Stick Blogger

Semester End Reflections

I started this course with a tentative mission statement, outlining my purposes for maintaining an edublog. Over the semester, I worked on drafting ideas that reflected my way-making (surfing explorations) and explored the use of discussion memes. A major task that contributed to my successful use of the blog involved exploring a lot of external…

Handling Negative Comments to Blog Posts

Dealing with Negative Comments on Your Blog My initial impressions (without reading through the archives of content) are that the focus is on social networks, not individual bloggers. One comment I find annoying is the following: “Honestly, if you don’t have people disagreeing with you once in awhile, I think you have another problem.” The…

EduBlogging – Issues to Consider

I am building a theoretical framework which includes using edublogs for transformative learning, and I am especially interested in the issues conccerning the process of facilitating learners through thresholds, or liminal spaces, in which most learners experience transformative change. Current literature describing case studies on blogging emphasizes the need for public blogs, groupwork, and interaction;…

Personal EduBlogging

Private Edublogs offer a safe space for learners to cultivate personal voice and bolster self-confidence. Learners who prefer a private space to a more public one are typically more self-critical, apprehensive of peer feedback, and view self-disclosure to others too painful. “Incubator” Within such a protected learning space, often within a walled garden of a…

From the SandBox: Collected Ideas

Quote from Barry Wellman, from Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism: This is a time for individuals and their networks, and not for groups. The proliferation of computer-supported social networks fosters changes in “network capital”: how people contact, interact, and obtain resources from each other. The broadly-embracing collectivity, nurturing and controlling, has become a fragmented,…