Monday, 20 October 2003
Drifting apart.....
It's been a while since anyone posted to this blog. As I can post, I decided to drop something in to see if anybody is still using the Angelfire system.
I've decided to take it up after the UKeU stop funding it at the end of December. It doesn't cost a lot and I quite like the blogging software. I'd like to explore its features a little more thoroughly now I've more time.
Feel like we're all slowly drifting apart.
Or maybe its just the relief having all successfully submitted our Examinable Components electronically.
At least the UKeU forums will still be alive when we get our results so maybe we can celebrate a bit then.
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blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 9:46 PM JST
Tuesday, 12 August 2003
Suceed Posting
Hi Pui, I succeed in post to your community blog. How to set this? But I have problems in access my angelfire blog at home. The browser cannot read the page. "Page cannot be displayed" it says. I can post to the blog, but cannot go to the page to read the post. Talk to you later.
King
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 11:36 PM JST
Saturday, 9 August 2003
Wow
Just had a really emotional day at work and thought will logon to my blog before going home, and saw three postings from Sali, Ruth and Gill... wow it work!
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 2:09 AM JST
Friday, 8 August 2003
Fleeting visit from Gill
Thanks for the blog invite Pui. Am now sat in the garden trying to blog and study. Mixed success. Just can't concentrate but that could be the beer ;)
I hadn't thought of the socializing aspect of blogging as a useful learning aid but you're right. We can communicate here on a more light-hearted level if we with. However I feel that the UKeU environment has artificially constrained our communications by the way it is structured.
In first class, there was always one or more "cafe" or "bar" conferences. Because all conferences appear on your "desktop" you can always see the "cafe" and people would occasionally have flurries of postings. With the UKeU discussions, ones that slip off the front page are seldom used again except for reference (anecdotal experience). There was once a cafe, I believe, but in Helen's group, that discussion will be pages away from the active discussions and none of us have bothered to resurrect it.
Perhaps blogging could fill that gap?
cheers,
Gill
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 11:36 PM JST
Hello
Well I have managed at last to post to anothers blog and thanks for the invite Pui. Any chance you can tell me how I get your blog to appear in the left hand column of my blog. I have added you as a user with advanced status and saved the entry but nothing appears to be happening on the left hand menu!
It is driving me mad.
Ruth
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 8:36 PM JST
Visiting...
Thanks Pui for inviting me to come join in your blog!
I think it is interesting to see how these blogs evolve - whether into discussion forums, diaries or collections of links. I guess everyone has their own preference?
Nice to be here - have a great weekend!
cheers
Sali
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 5:05 PM JST
Dear Diary
Blogging is certainly fun and have you notice since we all create a blog, we started to socialise with peers more not just on H806 work, but on a more social and friendlier level, like you do when you are in the campus environment. I feel that blog is certainly a good way for learner to get to know more about each other at the beginning of a course, sort of ?breaking the ice?.
I?ve been reading up on other?s blog and making comments, as a result have neglect putting new posting on my, but I?ve learned more about my peers than before, a bit late as we only got two moths before the end of this course.
A bit down as well with so many people going on holiday, and a great colleague and friend of mine is leaving on Friday to start PGCE training. Just wrapped up my special presents to her and written a long farewell letter. I think I have treated my blog as a personal diary then sharing thoughts and useful link and reading about Blog. Apologise to you all!!
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 9:59 AM JST
Tuesday, 5 August 2003
Blog v Forum
It's been couple days since my last entry, not very productive in working on the H806 stuff at all. I can hear alarm bell ringing as I type this, especially with the next TMA looming and the final ECA submission.
Trying to maintain my blog, reading both the Forum in UKeU and various blogs in Angelfire, and getting on with Unit 4 certainly test one?s time management skills to the limited. A few fellows H806 bloggers have already expressed their concern about the usefulness of having blog as well as Forum, and would that create confusion on where to post. To be honest, I felt the same way when I first started and still do. But I found there is one feature in Angelfire that is very useful for lazy learner like me. The ?Buddy? feature pull out all my buddies posting for the day, so instead of checking each forums I can now open my buddy page and read the latest postings. This certainly saves time.
However, there is a down side, how do you achieve all the useful posting in the buddy page as at the moment the page only hold the 10 most recent postings? I have saved the one that interest me into a Word document; there must be a better way than this.
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 9:13 AM JST
Friday, 1 August 2003
Master the Blog Creating Skills
As you might have noticed, after creating my last entry I have gone back to amend it once again, not for the content itself but trying to create a hyperlink to the articles that I was referring thinking it will be easy, but in fact it took me 21 minutes to try and error what I was suppose to do make it how I want it. I think I need to have a revision on my basic HTML skills.:(
Time to have a break from the computer screen.
blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 2:39 AM JST
Community Blog
Start having a search on the internet to try and understand the history and meaning of Blog, and the latest arguments on this new phenomenon since the internet (mostly from the articles on the BBC News).
Some positive one like: -? Blog for Everyone?, ?Online Communities Get Real? to some not as positive one ?Gagging the Bloggers?
My question is what is the purpose of a Community Blog? If you can create links within your blog that you find interesting and want to share with other or visit later, and you can post comment to other people?s blog if the author allows it.
Or does a Community Blog mean other people can have the same access as the author to change the setting of a co-own community blog????
Confuse??. will come back to it later when the brain is less of a muddle.
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blog/phwong in Blogging Pui at 2:09 AM JST