Oh my blog, oh my work, oh the ignorant twat I
Oh yes, I should be working on this blog. Yet I don’t.
I tend to comment on other students’ blogs, but I have not yet figured out, how to IFTTT can be used to automatically post this activity on my own blog. And I do not really want to. I comment on other folks’ blog because I want to, I find it interesting, I like the other guys, I enjoy working with them. I do not do this to show off, to make an impression on my tutors. Am I risking good grades?
I should put some meta information on my posts, so my tutors can see what I am doing and why. But seriously? I am doing a lot already, I believe, and doing something somewhere online and then doing something more on this something somewhere else – it is not only the workload that bugs me, it is also this egocentric approach I would feel like taking. Come on, it’s only me. No big deal.
I do not like the looks of my blog here. It could be prettier, more user friendly, simply better. But I have my own blog in a diffefent corner of the internet. And I am not a web designer, nor a programmer. I am many things. Ain’t that enough?
Am I lazy? Do I lack motivation? I reckon I simply do not really know or approve the WHY of all the work I should be putting in. I wake up every morning, go get a coffee, get back into bed and start reading my Twitter feed and other EDC students’ blogs and I start commenting, replying, working. Oh what a perfect start to the day. This is what I am doing right now. Why would I spoil something I love? For grades? For status? For future job opportunities? Oh very nice, very nice, very nice, but maybe in a next world. This might sound crass to anyone else, but after almost killing myself with depression I am simply reluctant to do things that just don’t seem right for me. I am aware that this position I take is rather unprofessional and irrational maybe. And I assume it might change with the course of time. But right now, I take the risk, smilingly, leaving meta data to those who truly embrace them, while I hold on to my coffee.
2 thoughts on “Oh my blog, oh my work, oh the ignorant twat I”
Hello Dirk,
I think I should comment on a few of the points you have made here.
The first thing I would say is that this is *your* lifestream blog therefore I completely understand why you want to shape it in the way that feels right for you. As the same time though, when it comes to marking the final piece of work I have to use the assessment guidelines as outlined. So, I am happy for your to continue using the lifestream blog in the way that you feel best supports your learning and engagement with the course, as long as you know that it could impact on the overall grade you receive.
What I would also say though is that I don’t see why including your comments (on other blogs) within the lifestream spoils the nature of your work or would diminish the value you get from engaging with other members of the group. I would simply see it as gathering together a different type of digital content that is already visible elsewhere anyway. I don’t see that it would need to change the way you interact with other members of the group – at least, I would hope that would be the case.
Another point I want to make is that it’s really clear that lots of time and effort goes into your lifestream blog. I do appreciate the effort you put in and I enjoy reading/viewing/listening to the content each week, as you know. Also, I also don’t see that there’s a problem in terms of design of your blog: it certainly doesn’t affect my ability to access your work which is the most important thing for me. If I wasn’t able to access your work, that *would* be a shame.
James
I reckon when writing this post I was rather frustrated with myself, because this blog does not convey what I think it should in the way it should. In other words: qulity an quantity of this blog is not what I would want it to be. The ol’ question of “good or good eough” I guess 😉