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Is this important?

In class today, me, Ingunn and Lova discussed the importance of a blog. What do we learn by blogging? Is it just a diary for our own amusement? Or does it help us understand and learn more about ourselves? I concluded by saying that to me a blog isn’t really more than a tool, helping me express my ideas around a subject (the subject at present day being ICT and Learning). But that’s good! As long as people write down their ideas and comment on each others ideas, blogging can be really helpful. But although blogging isn’t really that important to me, I understood it became more and more important to others, and when I came home today, I read an interesting article in the news. Check it out, and think about how important blogging would be in a situation like that. Here’s the link: http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2007/10/30/516692.html

4 Responses to “Is this important?”

  1. Dette var interessant Arild, blogg kan altså være en støtte for folk som sitter på Deathrow! Tror at det lett kan dannes interessefellesskap ved hjelp av blogging, folk leser om andre i samme situasjon eller med samme interesser. Jah, for grunnen til at vi sitter her og blogger er jo vårt fellesskap huin102. Hva handlet forresten det andre faget huinfaget du tok i vår om? Lignet det i det hele tatt på huin102?

    ikm85 - October 31, 2007 at 5:54 pm

  2. Yes Arild, you’re right about the importance here – it’s the (only?) contact with the outside world, a possibility to share their story. Maybe from only one side, but hey – it’s not the news (which by the way aren’t always that good at not taking sides…)
    Ole, Lena and I also talked about the subject of what a personal blog is. Of us it’s only me who has one, and I use it sort of as a diary (as Lena just this second pointed out to me on msn..) I have no specific subject, but I write whtaever comes to mind – and what can be public, as I don’t want the blog to be uncomfortably personal.
    And then there’s the blogs like those we write here, of a specific subject. I think they are the most interesting from an academic point of view, at least if we are speaking of academics outside the area og psychology…

    huinmari - October 31, 2007 at 8:02 pm

  3. Yes, as meany artefacts, blog is a tool that can be used to many purposes, diary as you mentionned, journalism/documenting (as in the featured blog), with a (possible different) purpose for ourselves and for our readers, clarify our thoughts, release pressure, informe, entertainement and more….
    In a learning context, the blog can be a tool possibly helping for developpement (cf.: Vygotsky’s “zone of proximal development” as mentionned in Feilberg’s article) in many ways.

    M. C. - November 1, 2007 at 3:48 pm

  4. Ja jeg er enig i tillnærmingsmåten til det å blogge, for meg er det også en måte å få ned tanker og ideer på, selv om det stort sett går i HUIN-relaterte saker (men det er jo det som er meningen her?)Dette er forresten første gang jeg har drevet med blogging foruten facebook, så litt uvant er det jo, men det er en ganske god måte å sette seg inn i andres tankemåter, for det er jo ikke alltid vi tenker likt, og det er gøy å se hva andre sier om det man skriver:)

    renateprate - November 2, 2007 at 9:56 am


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