Hi to all fellow humans and creatures alike welcome to my blog about everything on earth. did any of you manage to look at my intro vid? I liveee!!! means the birth of Mr Raj's blog. Well initially this was just another assignment I from the CENL2008 course but i plan to make this blog my permanent one :) .....
How to blog:- got to read the art of blogging :)
Blogging is a very powerful tool, in Malaysia if you are a prominent and vocal blogger you get to be in TV, and go to jail haha. Our ex PM has 8462402 number of visitors in his blog currently viewing his expressions on all things happening in Malaysia. I think this is currently the best way to get his message across Malaysia and the world after he stepped down since in Malaysia the press is controlled by the government.
Back to the art of blogging; I have learnt one thing when i read this article; what you write will be assessable to everyone that uses the internet, and thus anything stupid done here will be known to everyone thus the key words 'RESPONSIBILITY' and 'MATURITY'.
It is a great tool but I see that in the future it will change; maybe it will not be in the form of written article (we do see other forms of blogging eg. video). It is an evolving tech that allows free flow of ideas and it is responsive. Just imagine in the future we can post our daily activities in the web; some sort of video of what we did the whole day, and people can comment to that. Scary but fascinating isn’t it?
Two lines that also catch my attention on the consequences of this technology:
Conversation vs. lecture...I have a mind...I have an opinion. It counts. Just like yours.
Shared meaning and understandings. Knowledge is acquired and shaped as a social process - resulting in spiraling: I say something, you comment on it, I evaluate it, comment and present a new perspective, you take it to the next level...and the process repeats until a concept has been thoroughly explored.
These two lines is a statement that is directly reflected in students learning today and what they will become in the future. My thought about first statement is that people now want a voice in everything that touches their lives; students will also want this power in their learning too.
My thought about the second statement is that students work closely together and they will function better in the future as blogging enables them to connect to each other more efficiently sometimes even better than the contact hours they have in class. I have already seen signs of this form of communicaction working well in some of my students. Hopefully they have both ‘RESPONSIBILITY' and 'MATURITY' on using this tech.
dear all who are not from CENL2008 you can read the original article by George Siemens in the link here.
