I still smile at the word of the month: Blurk. I had never heard of this before.
blurk : A lurker on a blog. (n)
To lurk and read a blog, but not comment (v)
I blurk on Dooce, but I am too shy to comment.
by pony Mar 21, 2005 email
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blurk
To lurk and read a blog, but not comment (v)
I blurk on Dooce, but I am too shy to comment.
by pony Mar 21, 2005 email
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=blurk
I have learned a lot about blogging tools, it is odd the several I read for specific friends - fragments from past interactions - just never really featured. (Xanga, Multiply and Vox) It really came down to elgg and Livejournal and blogmeister.
I learned a bit about accessibility. Had a look at some computers near my office set up for this purpose. (I had never given this a thought B4)
I know there were a couple (or more) of questions we have not answered, but that's life. One about WebCT/Bb. I'm just not going to bother with blogs inside WebCT/Bb - they need some work to bring them up to spec to be even able to deserve the label blog.
How have we done? This is important to me - Have we managed to put blogs under the microscope and dissect them and still leave the specialness of this medium intact, and not loose it's life and creativity? Yes, in my opinion. But we are still very much in the infancy of understanding the effect of this new environment. Sylvia, I suggest a Blogs II "Have we made any progress with Blogs in the last year?" in 12 months.
The metaphors are all there: fires, incubation, hotbeds, creative . .
Thanks Micheal, you have worked hard I can tell. I've enjoyed meeting your students. And all the rest of you.
-Derek