Activity 3 - Getting to blog

I am going to continue to use eblogger. I first used a blog "properly" when travelling in Mexico and South America and am delighted to still have this record of that trip (if only I could find it!). Later I used another blog to record farewell messages to my year 11 students. That was fun, except for the year when it wasn't!

The conclusion of Ferguson et al's study  was surprising. I read the paper expecting it to conclude that blogging was the best thing to hit academic publishing since the advent of the typewriter and instead they recommend that blogs are used primarily as a tool to support and extend learning. However, the implicit intention of the study seems to have been to identify blogs as a way to modernise the perception of academic collaboration and authorship, but instead traditional values persist and this hasn't happened. The authors instead recommend that blogs, rather than existing alone as individual pieces of writing, are part of wider academic environments, like Cloudworks.