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Constance Kassor<\/a> tweeted: “Sad to have missed out on the #potcert meeting in Collaborate today. Can any fellow potcert-ers sum it up in a few tweets?”<\/p>\n

I started to tweet a reply, but decided I’m too inexperienced with twitter to do that much with confidence – no chance to edit.\u00a0 Then I realized I could do it as a blog entry.\u00a0 So with that bias admitted: here’s my recollection of our pre-potcert session today on “Why do we blog?”<\/p>\n

(not chronological)<\/p>\n

Alan (cogdog): blogs need to be freed from dry, academic language – trying to get that through to #ds106 participants<\/p>\n

Ted: blogger’s voice needs to come through<\/p>\n

discussion: voice v.s. true self, “I have many voices but only one true self” (can’t remember who said that)<\/p>\n

Lisa: blogs can be photos, don’t need lots of words<\/p>\n

Xavier: blogs are part of course requirements<\/p>\n

Todd: multiple blogs for different purposes (others also) curation, journaling, reflection, documentation, portfolio<\/p>\n

discussion: having fun, Dracula diary blog, recipe blog safe & non-controversial unless calling for saut\u00e9ed Manatee<\/p>\n

me & Pilar: blogs are less fleeting & temporary than FB & tweets, so we take them more seriously, take much more time to write them<\/p>\n

Lisa & others: need to encourage editing – blogs more pliable than tweets & FB because the latter are sent and gone with no ability to retract (but I know I have edited FB posts – note to self, check membership renewal for AR club)<\/p>\n

Jenny M: also invests a lot of time in writing blog posts, careful redaction before publishing<\/p>\n

Jason (I think): blogs from dept. head more likely to be scrutinized – conscious of the image projected<\/p>\n

Jenny M: shy beginning bloggers may need more structured tasks to help them get started – potcert offers that<\/p>\n

There was, of course, much more.\u00a0 These are the bits that still stick in my brain 8 hours later.\u00a0 I may have taken creative licence with some details.\u00a0 Todd said he would post the recording of the session, so expect to find it soon on http:\/\/pedagogyfirst.org\/wppf12\/<\/a> and build your own neuron pathways.<\/p>\n

I’d like to add that serious blogs can make an impact.\u00a0 Audrey Watters’<\/a> recent “The real reason I dropped out of a PhD program<\/a>” (retweeted today by Tom Fullerton<\/a>) touched me deeply.\u00a0 I’ll read Hack Education blog in a different way from now on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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