Reflections on the Blogger experience
I feel fortunate that I have come through the blogging experience relatively unscathed!From the start I was afraid that I should become addicted to blogging and that I would have repetitive strain injury, deteriorating vision, tension in the shoulders and worse... Having spent many years working with computers I was resistant to their use for something that I feel should be much more autographic but I suppose there is a certain tactile quality to hitting the keys and typing out my thoughts for the day!
Actually this has been very useful since it does force me to make regular entries in the blog, as opposed to the logbook - I'm sure I'm not the only one to catch up on several weeks at a time with the latter. There is no hiding with the blog since the dates tell their own story, although I have noticed it is possible to make a very short entry then go back to edit it/fill it out later!
Of course the greatest advantage is that my mentor, Dale, and fellow students (and a few randoms) have been able to read about my investigation and make pertinent comments. This has been a fantastic way of gaining feedback and suggestions for further research. Also when I read a comment it is very easy to immediately do a search on the net and find the new point of interest.
At the start we had discussions about which module the blog would fit most easily into - I have thought about this quite a lot, since my Self Initiated Project may have benefitted from its inclusion and the balance of time spent blogging v creating work might have been better. I still think CCofD was probably right overall because there is no requirement for our own work in this module, featuring, as it does, research in the historical and cultural contexts of our work. If we had included it in the SIP I wonder if it would have been more difficult to switch between the hands on work and the computer based reflection?
Bloggin has become, if not second nature, at least comfortable for the most part - reservations only because it is sometimes very busy and posting images is impossible - then I resent the time lost and still no images.
Creating the bibliography online was difficult because of the limted formatting, and sometimes, just sometimes, the size of text etc seems to be completely *****d. Reading the blog from scratch (say, as the tutor?) must be a nightmare... so much information to wade through and in reverse order - so counter intuitive. Good luck Stewart!
Finally, the greatest advantage - I have really enjoyed the insight into what the rest of the group has been doing and to be able to give my two-penneth as well!!!
posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 9:49 am
1 Comments:
Hi Lynda, I'm quite sad that the blogging is finally over. Thank you for all the two penneth worths that you have left on my blog, much appreciated, Maria.x
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