Friday, March 23, 2007
Have you guys ever wondered? Why are we doing this? Why is it a necessity to blog?
If you ask me, this blog for GP thing is totally meaningless. ' blogging allows unlimited access ', i believe it meant that you can access your friend's comments on a specific topic with just a click away since it's linked, but isn't forum, which is just a scroll away more practical? I know there's a school forum but i have no idea what is it used for anyway, but i believe that anyone would find a consolidated thread of everyone's opinion is more convenient rather than finding the specific post in a blog.
Yes yes blog sure is more cool and more trendy but skins were MAINLY copied and pasted anyway, I'm sure some are also using default skins provided. Definitely a forum is easier to manage than a blog and isn't it easier for teachers too? Since they have only 1 website to access and grade the student's work. Thoughts are easily conveyed through a forum post which is definitely more convenient than a blog post, unless the moderator or administrator removes them, the post is there to stay.
Writing format in blog and forum are similar anyway, if we can improve our writing skills by using a blog, we can also do it in a forum. Forum also allows quote and open discussions so obviously it's more effective isn't it?
Blog does help one familiarise themselves with CSS editing and some web publishing skills but on actual fact, blogging is made so easy that a basic blog requires no editing as all are in the template and unless you want to add on decorations for the blog, no knowledge for web publishing is required. This blog you're looking at right now basically is copied and pasted from my class forum, and they don't even take half an hour, so i didn't really learn anything new.
Seriously i don't know why making a blog is compulsory, at least make it optional and a forum for us to discuss in, competition held for those who made a blog for their own purpose which is non GP related, at least this can spike their creativity and make an effort to decorate it nicely right? A blog with GP contents sounds so mis-fit. Forums ain't that boring at all compared to blog since avatars and signatures are allowed to customise but not to the extent of those in a blog definitely.
School forum's layout might be boring or whatsoever but in case you guys don't know, there are servers out there which hosts forums with skins which we can edit to our own liking, then more topics could also be discussed which allows interaction amongst the whole school. Students can also be assigned moderation jobs to let them know how is it like to moderate a forum rather than letting the school admin do everything.
Well just my 2 cents worth...
Ok, another comic strip from www.explosm.net, credits goes to the makers, not me
9:52 PM
If The Rain Could Bind The Heaven And Earth Who In All Eternity Would Never Meet, Would It Be Able To Bind 2 Hearts?
