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Who do you think you are?
Am I an expert? According to Adrian I can be on my blog: “We all know experts, about something, who aren’t employed in that area. Now they can share and show that expertise”. Now I’ve spend around 2 weeks considering what my expertise could be? I know this may sound weird and stupid, but in Denmark we have these unwritten laws that goes under the name “Janteloven” (Who-do-you-think-you-are-law) which is an aggregation of ten rules that most people in Denmark grow up with. You could say that this law doesn’t really add up with the way we use social media today, where it’s always about telling your friends and the public about what you do, who your friends are and so on. This we do without asking ourselves; who do we think we are? I grew up with these ten rules and therefor I can’t help that they are pretty much stuck in the back of my head! Because of that I’m having a hard time trying NOT to ask myself; who do you think you are? Why are you so important that people would actually read what you are writing?
But but but… I think I know what I could be an expert in! Since I’m a study abroad student from Denmark I could write about being a danish girl in Melbourne. Clever right? This might also be a good opportunity for me to collect photos and memories, even though I’m still not completely comfortable with the whole “me, me, me” concept. Oh well, let’s see if that changes during this semester.
(nestledmountainfjord.blogspot.com.au)
Headache…
OK, I really don’t know how to start of this post. This whole blogging thing just makes me think about a lot of stuff. How do I want my blog to present itself to readers? Which attributes are the most appropriate and what should I write about besides the networked media related thinking?
All of this thinking is good or at least I think it is. One of my first thoughts about the fact that Adrian wants us to build up our own blog was that: “Can he actually force us to create our own blog?”. Especially because blogging is publishing and publishing is being public, so are we being forced to do public writing? I really thought a lot about this because it is kind of an ethical question, if you ask me. But with that being said I know that most people of my generation is using other types of social media as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc., and when we use these types of media we are being just as public as when we write a blog post on our own blog. We just don’t have a teacher like Adrian reminding us that what we are writing is now out there!
So. From being really skeptical about this whole blogging thing, I now think that blogging in The Networked Media course, could give me the right skills to manage all of the publishing I do every day on the internet. Jesus, I’ve got a headache…
Week 2
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This weeks readings was about Chris Argyris‘ theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning. When reading the text I thought I understood the main idea of the theory, but didn’t really get why we had to read something about organizational learning. That might also have been because my mind was loaded with questions about; “how do I turn on my spam filter” and “how do I make that damn YouTube video appear as an image in my post!?” (I’m pretty green when it comes to blogging). But after attending week 2’s lecture, I suddenly saw why Adrian wanted us to read this piece.
When it comes to a blog as a medium and as a tool to learn by doing in class, it’s different from what most students are used to. We are used to being told and to listen. But by implementing the blogging culture into our learning, we might change the values that comes with learning, and if we do the double-loop has done it’s work and we can now begin to expand our learning capabilities: “It is only by interrogating and changing the governing values, the argument goes, is it possible to produce new action strategies that can address changing circumstances. (Smith, M. K. (2001) ‘Chris Argyris: theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning’, the encyclopedia of informal education, p. 10)
Source: (Salem Mafari, 9 Oct. 2011)
What is blogging?
So, what does the word “blog” mean? According to Adrian Miles “A blog is a web based publication”. With that said I am now a writer who publishes her own words and therefor my words are now forever somewhere in the World Wide Web. The fact that it will always be “out there” after I hit the publish button, just creeps me out. But people still blog, in fact while I’m writing this post 68.699.764 people has a WordPress site.
So why do we blog? If anyone has the answer please comment. I will try to answer it myself during this semester, but for now you can watch this video: