Comments on: Reasons for blogging http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/ Connectivism & Connective Knowledge Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:59:01 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jennymackness http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-250 jennymackness Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:32:53 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-250 Reply to Mike I was thrilled to receive your video comments, which have given me plenty to think about (see post 'scratching your own itch'). Thanks so much for taking the time when you are so busy with your young family and your workload. I am still thinking about your comments. Jenny Reply to Mike

I was thrilled to receive your video comments, which have given me plenty to think about (see post ’scratching your own itch’). Thanks so much for taking the time when you are so busy with your young family and your workload. I am still thinking about your comments.

Jenny

]]> By: jennymackness http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-249 jennymackness Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:03:40 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-249 Reply to Robin Thank you Robin <a>http://robinheyden.wordpress.com/</a> for your comment . It's lovely to keep in touch and I appreciate the time you have taken to respond to my post. You have given me lots to think about. I wish I had had you at my side when talking to my brother-in-law. As it was I let his comment pass, but found myself reflecting on it a lot. Thank you! Jenny Reply to Robin

Thank you Robin http://robinheyden.wordpress.com/ for your comment . It’s lovely to keep in touch and I appreciate the time you have taken to respond to my post.

You have given me lots to think about. I wish I had had you at my side when talking to my brother-in-law. As it was I let his comment pass, but found myself reflecting on it a lot.

Thank you!

Jenny

]]> By: jennymackness http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-248 jennymackness Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:50:39 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-248 Reply to Matthias Thank you Matthias <a> http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/</a> for your comment. No - I have not closed my private blog. It is interesting that I find it more difficult to write consistently to my private blog, but when I do write to it, it includes reflective material that I would never publish - it is far too personal. I try to update my private blog - which I call 'Commonplace Thoughts' at least once a month. I also keep blogs for other purposes. There is this one, which started to accompany a course and is now, since the course has finished, undergoing an identity crisis! There are private blogs that accompany courses I am either teaching or attending. These might be public for the duration of the course but then I close them down again. And then there are holiday blogs - which may or may not be private. They might not be private as I write them, but I make them private when I return from my holiday! I can really relate to this that you have written: <i>And I made the surprising observation that the way how I am reading has become more fruitful when I merely think if I could blog about the stuff, even though in most cases I will not do it.</i> I think this is so true. Jenny Reply to Matthias

Thank you Matthias http://x28newblog.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/ for your comment. No – I have not closed my private blog. It is interesting that I find it more difficult to write consistently to my private blog, but when I do write to it, it includes reflective material that I would never publish – it is far too personal. I try to update my private blog – which I call ‘Commonplace Thoughts’ at least once a month.

I also keep blogs for other purposes. There is this one, which started to accompany a course and is now, since the course has finished, undergoing an identity crisis!

There are private blogs that accompany courses I am either teaching or attending. These might be public for the duration of the course but then I close them down again.

And then there are holiday blogs – which may or may not be private. They might not be private as I write them, but I make them private when I return from my holiday!

I can really relate to this that you have written:

And I made the surprising observation that the way how I am reading has become more fruitful when I merely think if I could blog about the stuff, even though in most cases I will not do it.

I think this is so true.

Jenny

]]> By: Robin Heyden http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-247 Robin Heyden Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:16:28 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-247 Hi Jenny, I enjoyed this post of yours and sympathize with your questions and concerns. I particularly like the way you characterize your blog as a reflective space - an opportunity for some metacognition. If I were talking with your brother-in-law, I think I'd want him to more fully understand the value of a blogging community (maybe pointing to the CCK08 experience - which is where I "met" you) and the write/comment/respond/revise cycle that results from that. And that would lead me to the notion of the read/write web where I'd try to put the act of blogging into its larger context. I think I would also want to explain to him that, for me, knowing that someone will critically read what I write makes me try harder. I want to make my thoughts clear, I dive deeper for insight, I work harder not to prattle on and on - even to more meticulously correct my spelling and grammer. The blog readership serves like a razor to sharpen my thinking and my writing. And the last (and maybe the most important) thing I would share with your b-in-l is that blogging, when done well, is more than public journal-writing because good, thoughtful bloggers (like you) write their blogs in such a way as to invite in their readers - to comment, to question, to challenge, to agree/disagree. And that is a very fine habit of mind to get into. Hi Jenny, I enjoyed this post of yours and sympathize with your questions and concerns. I particularly like the way you characterize your blog as a reflective space – an opportunity for some metacognition. If I were talking with your brother-in-law, I think I’d want him to more fully understand the value of a blogging community (maybe pointing to the CCK08 experience – which is where I “met” you) and the write/comment/respond/revise cycle that results from that. And that would lead me to the notion of the read/write web where I’d try to put the act of blogging into its larger context. I think I would also want to explain to him that, for me, knowing that someone will critically read what I write makes me try harder. I want to make my thoughts clear, I dive deeper for insight, I work harder not to prattle on and on – even to more meticulously correct my spelling and grammer. The blog readership serves like a razor to sharpen my thinking and my writing. And the last (and maybe the most important) thing I would share with your b-in-l is that blogging, when done well, is more than public journal-writing because good, thoughtful bloggers (like you) write their blogs in such a way as to invite in their readers – to comment, to question, to challenge, to agree/disagree. And that is a very fine habit of mind to get into.

]]> By: Mike Bogle http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-246 Mike Bogle Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:34:21 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-246 Hi Jenny, Thanks very much for this post - you've made some important points that I want to come back to when time permits. For the moment though I've recorded my initial thoughts as a video comment here: <a href="http://seesmic.com/videos/zmJ4lHwENK" rel="nofollow">RE: Reasons for Blogging (to Jenny Mackness)</a> Hope all is well! Cheers, Mike Hi Jenny,

Thanks very much for this post – you’ve made some important points that I want to come back to when time permits. For the moment though I’ve recorded my initial thoughts as a video comment here:

RE: Reasons for Blogging (to Jenny Mackness)

Hope all is well!

Cheers,

Mike

]]> By: Matthias Melcher http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/2009/02/15/reasons-for-blogging/#comment-245 Matthias Melcher Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:55:54 +0000 http://jennymackness.wordpress.com/?p=298#comment-245 Have you closed your private blog? I still need my localhost wordpress for the tiny pieces that are not yet worth writing publicly. And I made the surprising observation that the way how I am <em>reading</em> has become more fruitful when I merely <em>think</em> if I could blog about the stuff, even though in most cases I will not do it. Have you closed your private blog? I still need my localhost wordpress for the tiny pieces that are not yet worth writing publicly. And I made the surprising observation that the way how I am reading has become more fruitful when I merely think if I could blog about the stuff, even though in most cases I will not do it.

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