A case against Blogs

Some people are writers; they can think of something interesting and clever to say every day, day after day, week after week. Some of us are Geeks; we think of something interesting and clever to say and say it over and over again to anyone who will listen until people start avoiding us in the halls.

I'm not very excited about having a Blog. I could tell you about my interactions with a Cellphone or Keyboard today - clearly technology - but not very interesting for me to write or you to read. If the purpose of the Blog assignment was to show how easy it is to set up a Blog, I get it already. Day three and I'm a convert. It's a piece of cake. If the purpose of the Blog assignment is to make us think about tech in our lives every day then woo-hoo. I use tech. I use it every day. Can I go home now?

A better idea (in my mind, of course) would be to assign each person to write a substantive, interesting and well thought out post once a week to the Moodle forum. Our classmates are much more likely to read and comment on them there. There would be less "today I used a stop light to avoid hitting an oncoming car" and more "here is this cool thing I learned."

The cool thing I learned today is that you can't just share a Google document with any email address, it has to be a GMail address. If anyone knows differently, I would love to hear how it's done.