Talking about the Blog (1)

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I am giv­ing a talk on the blog today at Swin­burne Uni­ver­si­ty in Mel­bourne, and frankly I am not all that pre­pared on the main issue of inter­est to the organ­is­ers there, which is the edu­ca­tion­al impact of this blog (and blog­ging in gen­er­al) ver­sus oth­er forms of edu­ca­tion.

I just estab­lished this blog to get the Debt­watch report out ini­tial­ly, and it’s grown in both size and per­son­al­i­ty in ways that I nev­er envis­aged. It’s been very grat­i­fy­ing, but I haven’t real­ly had the time to reflect on they whys and hows of the process of blog­ging.

I would real­ly appre­ci­ate hav­ing mem­bers pro­vide com­ments on this spe­cif­ic issue, which I will be able to bring up in real time dur­ing the talk today.

Spe­cif­ic ques­tions include:

1. How have you found this blog (and blogs in gen­er­al) as an edu­ca­tion­al medi­um?

2. Your reflec­tions on the blog as a com­mu­ni­ty: how engaged are you in this, espe­cial­ly in com­par­i­son to your (if nec­es­sary!) mem­o­ries of your engage­ment in your for­mal edu­ca­tion?

Final­ly, thoughts in gen­er­al are most wel­come on the blog itself.

Cheers, Steve

PS I won’t be able to respond to any mes­sages for at least 30 hours.