Within our forum, we all have the shared interest of doing well and improving our understanding of subject from reading eachother's blogs and interacting with eachother via comments.
I think the tutors are the ones with the power as when they comment on our blogs or post something about our blogs in the forum we are more likely to reply than if one of our friends told us to get on with our work.
I feel the 'blogging hierarchy' alters every week as sometimes people post loads of really really good stuff and therefore these students could be seen as the experts, but then in other weeks other students could write a lot of really good academic stuff & then they are seen as experts. I think really good blogs are those that you can go on, read the posts and understand straight away and want to comment on them. If you can go on and learn from someone's blog, then is it these people who are the experts?? I believe so.
Newcomers within our forum could be those who started later than the rest, as I believe in the 1st few weeks some people took a long time to come online and start and the divide between these newcomers & the students who had been online for a few weeks already (the experts??) was evident. Does anyone else agree with this classification?
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Alyson,
I think you make some good comments about the forum here...some students have suggested that they feel this course gives them quite a sense of empowerment and equality with the lecturers because of the nature of learning from each other - would you agree?
All the best
Emma
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