Comments on: Blogging conversation

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:47:38 +0000

Broken link is now okay.

Stephen’s post is what led me to the learning styles document.

By: Seb Schmoller

Seb Schmoller — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:32:22 +0000

Jay,
Higher up this page there is a dud link to http://http//metatime.blogspot.com/2005/12/learning-styles-ha-ha-ha.html – immediately above the shaded green box introducing the interesting feedback on your piece about the LSDA Learning Styles Critical Review. One thing that struck me from the discussion, unrelated to learning styles is how the LSDA’s document spread. I wrote about it soon after it was published over 18 months ago here (http://www.schmoller.net/mailings/20040621.shtml), and various people picked it up quite quickly at the time, including Stephen Downes (http://www.downes.ca/archive/04/06_21_news_OLDaily.htm), but then things went rather quiet till your piece sparked some further discussion. It would be interesting to ask LSDA about the time-profile of downloads of the two documents from its site, and I will do this.
Seb Schmoller

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:08:59 +0000

Thanks for the fast reply… so apparently only my fake tags didn’t work, which is probably just as well.

I’ve thought a bit about this form of exchange, and want to make explicit that I recognize (as I think participants need to recognize) that not every thread necessarily invites or needs every reader. One of the contributors to The Whole Earth Catalog used to say (or quote), “Take what you can use, and let the rest go by.”

I’m attracted by the notion of a community of practice, even if “practice” is pretty loosely defined — that’s why I look forward to something like the ISPI conference, with more opportunities to learn and to discuss.

Dave

(P.S. — the footer currently reads “Internet Time Blog is proudly powered by with invalid XHTML and CSS.” Though maybe that’s true. The page source at the link for wordpress doesn’t have text between its ‘a href’ tag and the ‘/a’ tag.)

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:19:30 +0000

Dave, there appears to be some HTML allowed. This should be bold, and this Italic. And this font larger and one much smaller. And a link? to the informL site?

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:11:59 +0000

Dave, I hear you.

And you’re the first voice I’ve heard on these issues. Thank Goodness the incoming line is working.

I’ll nose around in WordPress. I would like to have not only HTML tagging but a Preview function as well.

jay

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:29:01 +0000

Sigh…

The posts here don’t accept HTML tags, it seems, not even fake ones.

I had put, in the previous post, “curmudgeon” tags around the “constant change” remark. Since there’s (apparently) no previous, I couldn’t see that they were edited out.

Is there no formatting on here? (It’s like using a phone in a client’s conference room, with no one around, trying to figure out if an outside line requires a 9, or a 9 – 9, or entering the entire number and then pressing EXECUTE even though you can’t hear a dial tone…)

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:25:34 +0000

I’m glad you made the analogy of the phone without the ear piece. From my side, reading blogs is like a room full of phones and only one mouthpiece. I can only respond to so much (if I want to earn my living). And, extending the blog-as-sound analogy, it seems almost impossible to remember where I saw X or read Y’s opinion.

With your blog’s shift, I find I can’t get the feed in the way that I used to. (This is more a description than a complaint.) I don’t have a reader; till now I’ve used Firefox and just clicked the little icon (I don’t even know what it’s called) to add a given blog. Now that doesn’t work…

I’m not a newcomer: my first online experience beyond email came when I began using GEnie back in 1984 (I wrote job aids for the first users of its online chat and threaded discussions).

“Constant change” risks moving from a characteristic to a value, and if I can’t keep up with that I should just sit back and dream of the halcyon days of WordStar.

More seriously: if you’d like people like me to join or at least follow the conversation (I realize this is not a given…), remember that when the virtual venue shifts, some of us are standing in the lobby looking for “today’s events” or trying to figure out where the Epiglottis Suite is.

“…I wish blogging made listening to it a more natural thing to do…”

I want to emphasize (lest my comment be misunderstood) that I believe you also listen — not something I think is true of every blogger.