Sections B and C - edited to make it possible for the statements to be responded to by bloggers and moodlers. (JM 050409) Is this any better? I am still concerned about the complexity of some of the statements. The first set is about blogs. The second set is about forums.

 

JOHN/ROY - please let me know what you think about these statements so that I can change them on Survey Monkey.

 

JOHN - I am happy to email all bloggers. Would you and Roy be able to email all Moodlers? Have we agreed how many moodlers we are emailing? Do we have email addresses for them all?

 

 

 

 

 

In the CCK08 course

 

 

Posting to the forums required less effort than posting to a blog

 

The forum discussions were more easily accessible than the blogs

It was easier to make connections with other course participants in the forums

There was a greater sense of community in the forums than in the blogs

The forum discussions were more academically challenging than the blog discussions

There was more lively debate in the forumsthan in the blogs

Posting to the forums generated greater feelings of excitement than posting to a blog

Discussion in the forums was easier than in the blogs because all the ideas being discussed were located in one place

Discussion in the forums was more related to the course topic than it was in the blogs

The forums were more teacher-centric than the blogs

The forums facilitated greater co-operative peer learning than the blogs

There was a more immediate sense of close community in the forums than in the blogs

There were more people to interact with in the forums than in the blogs

In the forums, people felt physically closer to each other than they did in the blogs

There was more ‘jostling’ with other people in the forums than in the blogs

There was more ‘stepping on each other’s toes’ in the forums than in the blogs

The ‘tone’ of discussion in the forums was more academic than in the blogs

There was a greater sense of being in a group in the forums than in the blogs

 

Connections between forum participants were not as strong as those between bloggers

 

The pace of discussion was faster in the forums than in the blogs

Discussion in the forums was more provisional and exploratory than in the blogs

Discussion in the forums was more focussed on knowledge formation than in the blogs

There was more intensive cooperative learning in the forums than in the blogs

In the forums there was more emphasis on conceptual connections between ideas than in the blogs

 

The forums allowed for more 'big picture discussions' with digressions and disparate topics than the blogs

 

There was morerobust and forceful 'sparring' in the forums than in the blogs

The forums were more like a ‘free-for-all’ market place without a regulator than the blogs

There was more fast-paced asynchronous interaction in the forums than in the blogs

 

Relationships in the forums were developed on the basis of ideas more than in the blogs

 

There was less restriction on the ‘tone’ of discussion in the forums than in the blogs

 

The forums ensured a greater number of readers of your posts than the blogs

 

The forums ensured a greater number of responses to your posts than the blogs

It was easier to track back through discussions in the forums than in the blogs

 

In the forums you could avoid the distraction of numerous hyperlinks more than in the blogs

 

In the CCK08 course

 

 

The blogging community was more friendly than the Moodle forum community

 

 

There was less posturing and pontificating in the blogs than in the forums

 

There was greater mutual respect between bloggers than between forum participants

Itwas possible to find out more about the author of blog posts in a blog than the author of forum posts

There was a greater sense of community in the blogs than in the forums

Posting to the blogs created less feelings of anxiety than posting to the forums

It was easier to make personal connections in the blogs than in the forums 

The blogs were less teacher-controlled than the forums

The blogs enabled greater personal sense-making than the forums

The blogs enabled greater self-expression than the forums

 

It was easier to establish a personal presence in the blogs than in the forums

It was easier to establish a personal voice in the blogs than in the forums

 

It was more possible to develop personal connections beyond the immediate task in the blogs than in the forums

It was easier to control who to enter into discussion with in the blogs than in the forums

In the blogs the ‘tone’ of discussions met implicitly accepted protocols more than in the forums

The blogs fostered quiet, slow, reflection more than the forums

In the blogs there was greater ‘ownership’ of the publishing space than in the forums

It was easier to control the pace of discussion in the blogs than in the forums

It was easier to build and protect self-esteem in a blog than in the forums

It was easier to individually develop ideas in a blog than in a forum

The blogs enabled more intensive personal learning than the forums

It was more possible to make explicit connections between fewer and more distant concepts in the blogs than in the forums

It was easier to develop more thoughtful relationships and networks in the blogs than in the forums.

It was easier to develop longer-term relationships and networks in the blogs than in the forums.

Interaction was easier in the blogs than in the forums because it was possible to rapidly track parallel blogs and other bloggers.

Interaction was easier in the blogs than in the forums because bloggers developed ties which were initially weak and then strengthened

It was easier to develop deep relationships with other bloggers than with forum participants.