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Blogging because you have to?

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Edited by Jonathan Turner, Wednesday, 2 Jun 2010, 11:54

We have been asked to blog again and there has been quite a bit of resistence to it, because most of us are struggling to see the point. I'm gonna add more grist to this mill and say why I think there is not a lot of point, or at least one of the reasons anyway.

I have been searching blogs and I've enjoyed reading some of them, there is one about a guy who lives with no money and another one in Spanish about el futuro del web   and I realised that these both have something that my blog doesn't.

 

SOMETHING TO SAY!

There I think that pretty much sums it up, I don't really have a great compunction to write, not because I'm a boring person or because I haven't had an interesting life, (I have), I just don't have a specific area of interest, passion, set of opinions or whatever that I feel I have to foist on the world (or the 3 other CPs who read this)

So maybe that's why we prefer our tutor forum, that's comunication with a course, fulfilling a course component need, whereas here you're telling us to be interesting enough to publish something for a public, which frankly is a whole different matter!

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Jonathan Turner

One Laptop Rwanda

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I just came across this article in the Guardian Online, about the one laptop project in Rwanda. I have been on periphery of this project in Latin America and people are talking about it a lot.

Equatorial Guinea has a similar ethnic make up and history to Rwanda (replace Belgium with Spain and Diamonds with Oil), and I saw there first hand the emancapating influence of the Internet. The best thing about it is that it allows students control about how they access their own information, something that seems realy empowering in a closed society like EG.

 

Anyway have a look at the article and enjoy it!

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