In the beginning of the course we were told that writing a blog will be one of the learning methods. I was very happy to hear that, because I like blogging very much and think that it's a good channel to share thoughts, links and other stuff, plus interact within the group as well as with people outside our group. So what happened? Our blog wasn't benefited as much as it could've been, because the main way of communication was email, in the end. More or less 5 writings were posted each month, of which I personally probably posted the least.
I still think it's a good idea to make the students create their own blog. We could've shared our memos from the meetings here! That way also the "outsiders" who are interested in our latest proceedings could've been informed. Oh well, it's needless to say "we should've..." now. I thinks the quality of our posts was pretty high: many times there was a lot of substance and own reflections. Sending the memos here, not via email, would've made our blog actually really active and high-quality!
For the course personnel, I advise to give this hint to the future SGT students: use the blog for every kind of information sharing: memos, links, photos, reflections, sharing emotions. Also, only in the end of the studio I discovered the blogs of other groups. The blogs should be promoted among the groups in the very beginning! It would be fun if other groups would follow the blogs, too.
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Elina you may have posted less but you were a very active and water-related member.
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Why less blog posts?
1.we were tied up with tasks that would have required more people
2.We posted mostly our study and groupwork results,not reflections or communication info
3.For communication we used our mails and optima was used for documentation than any other group.
Suggestion: SGT course personnel can prepare a form next time for each member of a group to rate everyone's role in the group.So that the evaluation won't be only blog dependent.