It proves really complicated to get Anesa and Gill into my blog. This blog’s too private, and if I go via blogger.com that becomes too public.<\/p>\n
I could pay for web hosting and host it myself, but that seems like a lot of money to do something that should be fairly simple.<\/p>\n
Wonder if we could interest the OU in setting up a research blog site?<\/p>\n
9.11.05 Anesa commented
\nHi Rebecca … got in and read your entries so far … at least you have research question!!! Lot more than what I have at the moment :).<\/p>\n
10.11.05 Gill commented
\nIt did seem complicated, however in retrospect, we’ve achieved it in only 24 hours, and we weren’t trying for all of that time. I spent some time investigating a variety of PhP bulletin board type applications that I could host on my own website, but came to the conclusion that they were all too complicated for our needs.<\/p>\n
10.6.05 Gill commented
\nI’ve just read Anesa’s comment (and marvelled at the fact that she can use her own name as a Screen Name whereas I’m obliged to go for some whacky pseudonym because there are a million other Gill Clough’s). And I thought I was unique.<\/p>\n
I now realise that this is Rebecca’s own research blog, but reading Anesa’s comment about not having a firm research question resounded with me. Bearing in mind the success of these web-based forums that I’ve been researching in my investigations into informal learning using mobile devices, I suspect that a group blog would be helpful to us in a similar way. We could use it for bouncing ideas, for requests for help (like “How do I submit an expenses form” or “Anybody remember how to purchase non-elective software”). We would then have a written record that we could check back on.<\/p>\n
I’m going to try to create a group blog for the three of us using this AOL messaging system. It might provide some interesting material for analysis. We could even present it somewhere – a group PhD blog from people doing dissimilar subjects must be of interest.<\/p>\n
In the end, I simply signed myself up with AOL’s AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) to obtain what they call a “Screen name” and Rebecca added me to this blog. Anesa already had an online ID that was acceptable to AOL. Had I done that at the start, we’d have all been online within an hour.<\/p>\n
Now…..what to do with our group blog …<\/p>\n
Hmmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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