Blogging about the Blog: an ongoing journal (part 2)
3/18
A strange feeling on a Saturday night - while I’m at home enjoying my weekend, this online community is running without me, as 3 students are conversing from their homes. So, I started something that isn’t entirely mine any more.
I’m relieved to know the “I’m bored” statements weren’t directed at my lessons. But, I do think they point out something about your generation: the need for constant, quick paced electronic stimulation and entertainment.
Thoughts on the SAS chat: Is it getting out of hand? Do I need to impose rules, or will the community? Sometimes I feel like just deleting the pointless posts - all the lalalala nonsense. Do I need to impose consequences for chatting when you’re supposed to be working?
To answer Dat, it’s not scrolling if you post something long, only if what you post is repetitive nonsense.
I see many students in a different light on the blog; have more of an insight into parts of their lives and their concerns. People show different parts of themselves in their writing than they do face to face. Why do you think that is?
March 19th, 2006 at 9:56 am
i think you should put up rules of what you do not want to see on the sas chat. I think there should be some kind of cosequence like when the people are done they close there laptops and work on something else until the whole class is done with there work.After there all done they canopen up there laptops and type in the sas chat.:)=)
March 19th, 2006 at 4:14 pm
I’ll throw the question back to all of you: what do you think the rules for posting should be? Not WHEN you post, but WHAT?
BTW, “there laptops” and “there work” were words you were supposed to learn how to spell this week. Ouch.
March 19th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
i agree with veronica on everything,the consequences,the rules.one thing i might not agrre on r the rules , but we dont kno them yet.
Here is wut i think is fair….
1. no scrolling
(there should be a liimit to how many letters or words u repeat 2 to count that you r scrolling)
2. no flaming
3.uhh….i dunno but there should be more rules. i cant think. omg they r the same rules u have
March 20th, 2006 at 12:17 pm
I think people show ‘other sides’ of theirselves
b/c they are too modest to agree to something
or they don’t want people to know certain things ‘cuz that person doesn’t want other people to know or be concerned.