The novelty of blogs is wearing off

According to jill/txt, the novelty of blogs is wearing off…. in formal education:

this is in a course where the topic of the first half of the course is blogging, where they have to include two blog posts in their portfolios

Possibly formalising the informal a little too far there, but you can only work with what you are given…

Basically they just ignore it all. And they’re smart interested students. Who are bizarrely enough writing papers about blogging while saying they don’t really understand blogging. Because you’ve only posted three posts to your own blog, I tell them, tearing my hair out.

Some useful insights in the comments there as well.

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