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Blogs and forums

Filed in ILT on July 23rd 05 .

Some differences between blogs and forums

  • Blogs-with-comments allow students to read material and then decide to contribute or not as they wish.
  • Linear (non-threading) forums might be better for a structured activity or ‘turns taking’ discussion – student posting is required by the discussion format.
  • Blogs with comments switched off (like this one) can be used as simple ‘update’ pages to keep students informed and to provide links to resources easily.

Blog Forum
Here it is Your turn
Comment if you want, not required I’m not done until you reply
My blog is my back yard A forum is a park
Readers – just reading is OK Lurkers – just reading is not participating
All about me All about us as a group
Onus on me to post An empty forum is a group issue
Source: Lee Lefever in Common craft blog.

  • I picked this train of thought up from a blogroll link on the O-Journalism blog
  • The Blogsperiment pedagogy blog has an article comparing forums and blogs for use with HE students
  • The Blogsperiment article links to an ealier post by Lee Lefever in Common craft blog.

I found out about O-Journalism after a routine visit to the College by a Media lecturer from the local University – who happens to be one of the authors. A subsequent e-mail had the link to the blog in the signature…

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