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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 1, 2009 - 10:30 AM

Blogging is a very interesting subject. From my own observation, students,especially those in our country use blogging as a way to express themselves and as a personal diary of sort(though in the end its not very personal). I think this is okay because this means that they are just using IT as a medium to express themselves compared to the old-fashioned pen and paper. Though I do suggest that some need to know the boundaries of how much personal information should be made available to the whole world.

I also think that bloggers should be given maximum freedom of speech as long as long as their content does not cause racial tension and so forth especially in a multiracial country like ours. But I do feel that they should be free to express themselves when it comes to topics such as politics and all seeing that they don't have that now.

To make it simple- so long as it doesn't hurt anyone,it's fine by me.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 2, 2009 - 03:49 AM

Blogging is ok with me as long as it does not contain harmful, discriminating, and plagiarized inputs. It should not be a tool for some oral defamation (slander) issues.

Blogging can be used as an educational and informative tool.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 3, 2009 - 05:41 AM

Dear all,

I find this an interesting topic.

Please give comments on different aspects such as:

Blogs
-Commercialism?

-Channel to express thoughts?
-Personal diary to share with people?

-How much freedom should be given to bloggers?
-To what extent can law interferes?
-Do young bloggers realise the ultimate importance to know what is appropriate and take responsibility on their words?

-Famous bloggers in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. Kennysia, xiaxue etc. what makes them so popular?
-Quality of the contents of their blog

Jin Yun

Blogging is really great! It can provide collective information from various websites, forums,etc. I even have my own blogsites.

Yes, blogging sites are good tools or venue for sharing thoughts.

The quality and reliability are some of the aspects that would make a blogger known.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 11, 2009 - 03:44 AM

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Dear all,

Blogs
-Commercialism?

-Channel to express thoughts?
-Personal diary to share with people?

-How much freedom should be given to bloggers?
-To what extent can law interferes?
-Do young bloggers realise the ultimate importance to know what is appropriate and take responsibility on their words?

-Famous bloggers in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. Kennysia, xiaxue etc. what makes them so popular?
-Quality of the contents of their blog

Jin Yun
I have my own blog with about 1000 page views a day, and we have a pretty active blogger community in Vietnam. So I'll answer your questions from my point of view.

- Commercialism: yup, it's possible once your blog is popular enough. First you can make money out of banners, ads. Second someone can pay to get you blog about a specific topic. Someone even offered me a job as a professional blogger for his blog big grin

- Channel to express thoughts? Yes, a great way to improve your writing skills too.

- Personal diary to share with people? It's just one of many themes for your blogs. You can choose to blog about technology, hot news, politic, culture, food, your daily life, etc. or mixed.

-How much freedom should be given to bloggers? / To what extent can law interferes? Err these questions are a little bit political. Basicly, bloggers have rights to blot about everything they want, as long as their chosen topics are not forbidden by blog service providers or goverments. It varies depending on different countries and different providers. Goverments can always interfere by injuncting providers to shut down a specific blog. There have been at least 3 cases like that in Vietnam.

-Do young bloggers realise the ultimate importance to know what is appropriate and take responsibility on their words? Yes they will learn that a very single word of theirs can matter smile

-Famous bloggers in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. Kennysia, xiaxue etc. what makes them so popular? Err what is your criterium for a blog to be considered popular?

-Quality of the contents of their blog? It depends and varies haha.

I blog about technology in English, first is to practice my English and improve my writing skills; second is to dig deep into technology; third is to learn how to build & manage something on your own. It's not easy to keep the habit of blogging frequently, so you have to be disciplined. You will find it very interesting to read people's comments on your blog, to see the traffic to your blog up/down everyday big grin

I think teachers should encourage students to start a blog and blog about what they learn every day or every week. In that way, students can learn how to manage something on their owns; learn how to interact with people through converstations on their blogs, improve their writing skills which are very important in both college and at works; and learn to be responsible for their own words (as you suggested)

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 11, 2009 - 09:33 AM

chipro wrote:

Soo0405 wrote:

Dear all,

Blogs
-Commercialism?

-Channel to express thoughts?
-Personal diary to share with people?

-How much freedom should be given to bloggers?
-To what extent can law interferes?
-Do young bloggers realise the ultimate importance to know what is appropriate and take responsibility on their words?

-Famous bloggers in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. Kennysia, xiaxue etc. what makes them so popular?
-Quality of the contents of their blog

Jin Yun
I have my own blog with about 1000 page views a day, and we have a pretty active blogger community in Vietnam. So I'll answer your questions from my point of view.

- Commercialism: yup, it's possible once your blog is popular enough. First you can make money out of banners, ads. Second someone can pay to get you blog about a specific topic. Someone even offered me a job as a professional blogger for his blog *

- Channel to express thoughts? Yes, a great way to improve your writing skills too.

- Personal diary to share with people? It's just one of many themes for your blogs. You can choose to blog about technology, hot news, politic, culture, food, your daily life, etc. or mixed.

-How much freedom should be given to bloggers? / To what extent can law interferes? Err these questions are a little bit political. Basicly, bloggers have rights to blot about everything they want, as long as their chosen topics are not forbidden by blog service providers or goverments. It varies depending on different countries and different providers. Goverments can always interfere by injuncting providers to shut down a specific blog. There have been at least 3 cases like that in Vietnam.

-Do young bloggers realise the ultimate importance to know what is appropriate and take responsibility on their words? Yes they will learn that a very single word of theirs can matter *

-Famous bloggers in the Asia Pacific region, e.g. Kennysia, xiaxue etc. what makes them so popular? Err what is your criterium for a blog to be considered popular?

-Quality of the contents of their blog? It depends and varies haha.

I blog about technology in English, first is to practice my English and improve my writing skills; second is to dig deep into technology; third is to learn how to build & manage something on your own. It's not easy to keep the habit of blogging frequently, so you have to be disciplined. You will find it very interesting to read people's comments on your blog, to see the traffic to your blog up/down everyday *

I think teachers should encourage students to start a blog and blog about what they learn every day or every week. In that way, students can learn how to manage something on their owns; learn how to interact with people through converstations on their blogs, improve their writing skills which are very important in both college and at works; and learn to be responsible for their own words (as you suggested)

Very interesting. Great points. What's your blog URL?

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 11, 2009 - 09:37 AM

@shobana Here is my blog if you are interested http://huyenchip.com smile

Thanks.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 11, 2009 - 11:29 PM

chipro wrote:

@shobana Here is my blog if you are interested http://huyenchip.com *
Thanks.

Awesome blog! good job! smile

Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 11, 2009 - 11:42 PM

Allow me to share my blog about environment:

mrpgreen.blogspot.com

regards,

Jessie James

This post was edited on: 2009-05-11 at 11:46 PM by: marcellones

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 03:50 AM

Thanks a lot Shobana.

So what do you guys think about potential usage of blogging in education?

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 03:54 AM

Awesome blog Chip smile

Although I don't like your hate on males sad

I remember checking it out when you first arrived I think you posted it in a thread somewhere.
You say your blog now has 1000 views a day, have you started to make much money off it?

I started a blog last year but only posted 2-3 times before I lost interest.As you say you need to be disciplined to be able to keep making posts. I think I might start up another blog as it was enjoyable when people commented etc. Which site would you recommend for blogging?

I feel that as more 'Computer Natives' begin their teaching careers, blogging will start to be introduced into the classroom on a regular basis.

Even current teachers should do this, as you say it increases writing skills and builds time management etc. I suppose it also creates a self-disciplined student as students have to keep reminding themselves to make their posts :P

When my sister started intermediate her teacher (who is in her mid 50's) started to introduce blogging into the classroom. She now has a very developed blog site for their classroom. Students can upload work, photos and interesting blogs. They can connect with their teacher outside of school and use it during school as well. It’s a great medium for everything they do. For example, they can post their homework on there (weekly book reviews) for the teacher to mark and grade when needed

Check room3tai to visit their blog.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 06:05 AM

Hey Marcus, I'm honored :P. But belive me, I never hate males (in general). This blog post is just a joke wink

I'm using self-hosted WordPress. It's pretty cool. If you care about blogging professional, I strongly recommend WordPress. It's now the most popular blog platform. (Visit WordPress.com and WordPress.org for more information). You might wanna try Blogger, Spaces.live.com as well.

Hehe you're right about "Computer Natives".

If you blog, your teachers and classmates will definitely understand you more, therefore you will find schooling more relaxing. Well, I'm not trying to make it look too fancy. It has weak points as well. You might involve in blogging so much that you neglect your study.

I checked out Room3tai. Your sister's teacher is so cool! But she should update her blog more frequently big grin

For the whole class use, I think an internal wiki might be more useful.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 06:45 AM

Agreed. There's a class in my previous school that had their own blog and some of the teachers have their own blog 2. Its a great way to bridge the gap between students and teachers. Most of the people I know use blogspot. Though I think that's more for low profile bloggers. My brother uses wordpress as well and he gets plenty of hits. Its a pretty good way to make money I would say.

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 06:49 AM

chipro wrote:

Hey Marcus, I'm honored :P. But belive me, I never hate males (in general). This blog post is just a joke *

I'm using self-hosted WordPress. It's pretty cool. If you care about blogging professional, I strongly recommend WordPress. It's now the most popular blog platform. (Visit WordPress.com and WordPress.org for more information). You might wanna try Blogger, Spaces.live.com as well.

Hehe you're right about "Computer Natives".

If you blog, your teachers and classmates will definitely understand you more, therefore you will find schooling more relaxing. Well, I'm not trying to make it look too fancy. It has weak points as well. You might involve in blogging so much that you neglect your study.

I checked out Room3tai. Your sister's teacher is so cool! But she should update her blog more frequently * For the whole class use, I think an internal wiki might be more useful.

Thanks for those links smile

Will follow them up when I have some spare time!!!!
Yes wikis are great for hosting content etc. We used to one last year for hosting out notes etc from our english classes online chat sessions. (Once a week at 8-9) :P

How many years have you had a blog for?

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Re: The Issue of Blogging, in various aspects
May 12, 2009 - 07:10 AM

Yup you can make money from your blog. Several people & companies have actually approached me to get their products mentioned on my blog or get their banners displayed here but I haven't thought of commercializing my blog yet smile

I still wanna keep it a personal thing.