Comments on: Blogging Hare vs Blogging Tortoise

By: Clare McCullagh

Clare McCullagh — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:25:35 +0000

Hi Steve
Hmnn, both seems like a good combination, I guess that’s what you’ve done here with the Ning site.
I’d never come across ning before you sent out the invitation to join the group you set up, but recently joined another ning group related to online learning… it is such a nice interface compared to many other social networking type sites - I have to use one or two others for work and they’re awful in comparison
Clare

By: Stephen Henneberry

Stephen Henneberry — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:35:27 +0000

Clare,
Great question… There are definite benefits to both, but it sounds like you made the right choice with the wiki. While I think that a blog works great for the reflective part, especially if you are looking for discussion on the topic, a wiki is a great way to keep a more in depth record of information. Blog posts are just not intended to be edited once they are posted. Discussions may ensue in the comments, but the post remains pretty static. On the other hand, a wiki is meant to be updated and refreshed. Why not do a combination of the two? A blog for recording thoughts and starting discussions, and a wiki for compiling and updating your information/conclusions?
Hmm… Perhaps I should do a blog post on this to explore the advantages more… Thanks for checking in!

By: Clare McCullagh

Clare McCullagh — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:04:31 +0000

Hi Steve
I’m browsing during half time of the rugby world cup. Was interested to read this posting about blogging. I started keeping a blog for my researcher competence module which I’m doing this semester - we have to keep some kind of reflective journal as part of the course, so it seemed the obvious thing to do. But it didn’t seem to work so well if you want to add to certain themes again and again. The linear order in which blog postings are displayed by date order didn’t necessarily fit what I wanted. I’ve recently been using wikis for collaborative writing projects with colleagues, and they’re just great for this. They work well if you want to build on themes rather than build a linear sequence of events, which I felt I wanted to do in my journal. So I’ve switched to using a wiki for my reflective journal rather than a blog, even though it didn’t initially seem the obvious thing to do. You’re such a prolific blog user, I wondered if you’d compared their use in this way before?
Back to the rugby
Clare.

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