BLOG – SWOT
The BLOG was interesting for me because I had no experience, need or interest in visiting or creating one before.
I support Jon’s views that it provided a good forum to collaborate with class members. I enjoyed the keen and capable participation of BLOG-friendly members like Pete. I liked being able to look at other student’s comments and submissions and receive their views on mine.
Was a BLOG (as opposed to say a website, electronic game or another design practice) quite confined by electronic parameters that did not allow more innovative design options to emerge? While I appreciated the appearance and functionality of the site being controlled by others (because of my own ineptitude), I think it would have been fun to see what emerged with more input (experienced or not). Mistakes teach us things as well.
I share Jon’s views about info being split between the Google site and the BLOG. In all we had three sites to visit and/or manage.
I am concerned that a BLOG did allow more engaged practice of the ‘designerly acts’. I am not familiar enough with the practice of blogging to know whether this could be resolved with other software, manipulation, etc. We had a broad range of professional and cultural experience and some interesting things could have emerged.
