Kathleen Gilroy: weblogs vs. email discussion
Kathleen Gilroy: weblogs vs. email discussion
Kathleen cites an interesting post about how a weblog in a course at the University of Maryland was getting much more commentary than email discussion boards. She asked the professor who replied, "one, like all the rest of us, my students now get a lot more email than they used to. Course-related mail gets mixed in with the usual jumble of spam and whatever else. All too easy just to hit the delete key. Two, the blog allows them to see their ideas instantly published on the Web. Email is a closed world, a self-contained loop between the instructor and the other students. With the blog, the fourth wall is always open."
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