Evaluating My Blog
Doug Peterson,
doug – off the record,
Nov 10, 2010
So anyhow, I said in a post last week, "For the record, the things she says are not blogging, are blogging." Which leads Doug Peterson to wonder, "So, where does one start? I go back to my A&E resource who indicated once that 'there need to be clearly defined targets' that students can aim for." That's what happens, isn't it? You take something that is creative and open-ended - quests, videos, blog posts, play - and because it needs to be measured, participants are given common and clearly defined 'objectives' to aim for. And steadily and surely the fun and creativity are squeezed out of it.
Peterson says, "I don't think that it's going too far out on a limb that all of the above want to push bloggers towards #8 in the list above." Oh, it's all very nice to want "extended analysis and synthesis..." - but what if the blog is just the note-taking device? Or the personal journal? Do you have to do "extended analysis and synthesis" in everything you do? On my Flickr blog, all I do it post photos. Surely that's fine.
Peterson says, "I don't think that it's going too far out on a limb that all of the above want to push bloggers towards #8 in the list above." Oh, it's all very nice to want "extended analysis and synthesis..." - but what if the blog is just the note-taking device? Or the personal journal? Do you have to do "extended analysis and synthesis" in everything you do? On my Flickr blog, all I do it post photos. Surely that's fine.
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