Rick West

Bloggin’ about many things, but for right now I am talking about Online Learning Research in preparation for a BlogTracks presentation at AECT

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What is “blog-ready” material?

I love Zits, the comic strip about a trendy Net Gen teen struggling to make his Baby Boomer parents understand his life. The strip that came out a few days ago is about blogging, and I found it to be funny and oh-so-true:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zits.asp?date=20060421

I think I sometimes worry too much that I don’t have any material that is “blog-ready” for public disclosure on my blog. So I end up not blogging very much. The truth is that I often have a lot of opinions about a lot of educational topics that I read/write about all the time every day. So if I can chat about these things with my cubicle friends, what keeps me from blogging about it?

To tie this into our BlogTracks presentation: I think a difficulty with this type of presentation format is that while it should be a more informal method for discussion, we still may be hampered by our academic habits and traditions for only sharing perfect, publishable work.

Note to self: In this blog, try to talk more, not less, even if that means the ideas aren’t fully cooked yet. Hopefully through discussing ideas in this space I will be clearer about my ideas in the end, as well as hopefully having contributed something to the discussion myself.

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One Response to “What is “blog-ready” material?”

  1.   Going the Distance with Education » What does it mean to be “blog-ready”? Says:
    May 1st, 2006 at 12:01 am

    [...] Rick asked that question the other day after we (the BlogTracks group) met to talk about what we’re doing with our various blogs. I contend that “blog-ready” is whatever you want it to be. Yes, we are doing this for a professinal audience, AECT; however I contend that this an informal space. It is one where we should be comfortable talking about our individual subject areas in an informal manner. [...]