Okay okay I can’t even manage more than three days of completing a task a day! I was all set to do this posting for day 4, and then I read about how our presentation had gone at the COT conference, and the responses on the Salford OT blog, and then those on mine and I just got all carried away with writing about that and lost the plot on the commenting challenge! But I’m back on track now and am going to try and do three tasks tonight!
So Day 4’s task is to ask a question in a blog comment. I don’t usually have a problem doing this, so it should be a quick task to tick off. I’ve even found followed up the blogger who has started the challenge about the same time as me! Mrs Banjer.
Brilliant – onto Day 5. This task is a little more challenging as you have to disagree with someone’s posting. For this one I’ve followed someone else doing the comment challenge to this blog on social conferencing (perhaps it was Sarah’s blog). Tony Karrer has a very detailed blog and raises some interesting issues. I spent some time going around in circles reading his interlinked postings and trying to make sense of the comments. Many of the commentors appear to know each other and so the discussions were obviously very intense and useful but a little hard for me to follow. I did leave a posting here which suggested that unconferences or unworkshops may not work for newbies to a professional field who are seeking more structure in a conference… I’m curious to see if Tony responds, but cocomment doesn’t appear to work well on blogger.com. I can add in my tags, but I can’t use the tracking function – the option isn’t there to select – I wonder why that is?
Okay – last task for tonight and I’m up to date. Day 6 of the challenge is a task that I think I already do and in fact, I’m not going to do this task, but just point to where I’ve started to engage in a discussion already – it’s on Sarah Stewart’s blog and is the start of a discussion about do you have time to learn?
Having completed my tasks for the last 3 days I now feel very virtuous and will be back tomorrow night to continue!
Well done, Merrolee! You’re doing well!
If you dont get on with cocomment, try co.mments instead. Its not interactive like cocomment but I find it effective for keeping up with conversations.
Like you, I find Tony’s blog very interesting especially his introduction to blogging. Have you seen the work he is doing on work literacy?
By: sarahstewart on 16 June, 2008
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Hi Merrolee, thanks for the tip to head back to your Blog, great to have you back blogging and catching us up on all your exciting activities! The group you are working with sounds really dynamic and fun.
I had also tried to follow Michele’s 31 Day challenge… I thought it was Natan’s idea and had been following it from his blog! I realized when I followed one of his links back to Michele’s blog.
I’m off to disagree somewhere now
Cheers, Anita.
By: virtualot on 16 June, 2008
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