Could be, but maybe I'll be asked to do something more.
So, I guess I should do a bit of a round off here. I've actually really enjoyed this class. SL was fun, modelling (a bit) and scripting (well, programming) are what I've been doing for the last 4-5 years, and this was a quirky little platform where I could play with my skills (would said skills pay the bills? I hope so...). Blogging was enjoyable, and I always enjoy playing a little bit of the Devil's Advocate!
I wont pretend for a second that this blog doesn't contain my own opinions, but I will maintain that most of these feeling were not as strong as this blog will have made them sound (Am I Bovvered?).
Here's a round up of what I found to be interesting in this module (if I forget anything, then it probably wasn't that interesting... (they're only OPINIONS))
- Blogging - fun for writers, those who like to speak thier minds, and advertisers. For most purposes, a good forum will work better
- MUVEs - why bother if it's not a game? I see the popularity of it, tho. Quirky, and griefable
- MMOGs - AYE! I was always into this idea, even when the net was young. Need more free worlds tho.
- MUDs - Been there, lol!
- Griefing - Get a life. (extra life?) (second life?) Griefers suck, yes. But really, where's the harm? Take a chill pill, not like they're taking the food from your mouth.
- Real life jobs in second life - what? sorry, What? two words "Job Security". Get a life, again (would that be a third life?). I suppose that you make your money where you can, so good luck to you. Not for me tho.
- Online learning - I like the idea. I would like to see an increase in the online support of conventional courses. On the other hand, I like people, and I think that the theft of the university experience (those of you who stay on campus are getting the most out of this) is a bad thing, and will lead us away from nirvana, utopia or wherever we should be heading. Also, pick a path. otherwise youll get lost.
- Web 2.0 - well, well, well. Whoever thought that the web was now in only it's second incarnation had to be a nutter, but aside from that, whoever wanted to put thier private (copyrighted) writings on the net...
- Online religion - surprise surprise.
- youtube - funny. supposedly being closed down for copyright reasons. it's the internet, and my blog is copyrighted to me... Of course theres copyrighted material in it.
- majiti - now here's copyright issues. isn't this unlicenced reproduction and public performance...
2 comments:
Just one comment...
Are discussions in forums as accessable as discussions on blogs?
I'll have to think up some stuff for you to do next week... (but not too much!)
Yeah, I believe so. Mel (my girlfriend) is on the celtic forum all the time. They are a little mor edifficult to set up, as they need hosting on a server, though.
Perhaps for your purposes, the blogs were better, as each individual can set one up, and writing to a blog makes for a longer diatribe (in my case, monologue for most).
Forums encourage discussion more, though. Theyre not comments, but replies. But is this inducive to debate and justification of opinions, perhaps not.
Accessibility to a forum is just a case of registration. Access to forum creation isnt so simple. I'd encourage to use of the moodle forum on top of the blogs next year perhaps, but i thought that this system worked well.
Also (this is a blog entry to itself), individual blogs meant that blog entries weren't always influenced by other blogs. on a discussion board, this would never be the case.
OK, that's enough.
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