I
must say that my impression of using a blog has been very good, after I figure
out how to create a blog I found myself enjoying the whole process of the
design. Actually I’m a fan of blogs, but I haven’t had the interest on creating
one, till now.
Now
that I have my own blog I want to improve
the design and add all kinds of attractive
apps like put the links of my RSS feeds, but I have not find
out how to do that yet. To create the RSS was really easy, I did not have any
experience or expectation with that before, but now I've noticed the utility of this application; I can easy track all the updates of my favorite
blogs without opening one by one.
The
parts of Dale’s Cone that I think
lends themselves best to the tools we have used so far in this class are; well
the truth is that was undecided
between: Visual symbol, Verbal Symbols and recordings, radio, still pictures.
What parts fit better and why? That was
a period of time we did not have all the technology advances that we have
today, so the difference is heaven to earth. I chose Visual symbols because as
the author say in this division of the cone, we are not longer involved with
the realistic reproduction of physical things. In the creation of our blogs physical
things were not involved, but we had a learning experience, we also had to use
verbal symbols to upload information to the blog. The different is that with the
new technologies advance that we have now, we can combine visual and verbal
symbols with motion picture, recordings, radio and still pictures. The RSS
tools is more a verbal symbol with this you can
tell
easily which sites have made an updates in its content, but it’s
also a visual symbol, you can notice the updates without reading, just by
looking the colors or numbers that
symbolize any change.
I
think there are many imaginative educational uses for a blog. The idea that you
can become a journalist and document all your assignments like a professional
is very attractive for, me as student and as a teacher. In a blog you not just post
something and that's it,
actually you have the feeling that you can publish something really important
and make a change in the world or at least make your voice heard. With a blog,
students can share their ideas and they can look into their classmate blogs and
in that way they can have a much more wide perspective of the assignments.
It’s
funny that you have mentioned Postman’s question, because I enjoyed so much his
interrogations. What is the problem to
which RSS is an answer? Well I would
not say it's a problem to solve,
but it is an advantage to use this tool to
keep students updated with
assignments in an easy and faster way.
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