It's a strange strange thing, this forum business. I cannot get my head around them. One minute they make me happy, the next sick with worry! The difference between the business school forum (quite technical) and the Science/Health ish forum is amazing.
Anyway, it remains so busy in the second forum that it is very hard to keep an eye on everything. Occasionally there are comments though that I really want to reply to, and so do. At the moment there is quite an interesting chat going on, and there I was happily enjoying it, and then happened to look at a different thread, and realised there are still a lot of people who are unhappy on the forums. I've been thinking about this for ages, and I think maybe it's just the natural way of things when there are so many people on the same forum. People will form groups. I shouldn't expect to be a part of every group, and shouldn't be upset if I realise another group isn't happy with a group that I may or may not be in. If there are hundreds of students, negative comments are unlikely to all be aimed directly at me. Right?! I'm really disappointed to read these other threads though. I think this course should be divided up in future into separate tutor groups, so issues can be raised, discussed, and sorted. What strikes me about this set-up, is that students are all forming like minded groups - which is exactly what I would think this particular course should be avoiding. Tutor groups are so much easier to handle, and there is room for dicussion without it getting out of hand like it does on this forum. I'm so stressed!!! Ha, well actually, I'm not so stressed now I've written this. Apparently there is a cost implication in dividing into smaller groups... I wonder what this would be, because given so many students are taking the course, I can't imagine it would be that extreme. I'm pretty sure it would be worth it. On the other hand, I've quite enjoyed having so many people in the same place all interested in the same thing. You can't have it all. There you go, I've turned it all round now, everything is ok. It is what it is.
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Hi Rosie,
I am wondering if you are talking about SK124 with the negative comments on the forums (fora??). If so I must be missing something as I haven't really noticed it (maybe because of my own tendency to be negative so negative can = normal to me). Sorry you are upset by it though - especially as you contribute so much useful to the forums.
I am wondering if you would mind if I quoted your story about the tea cup in my presentation (I do insider sessions on autism spectrum conditions).
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Hello Caroline!
I haven't got my head around this blogging thing yet and it is all a bit experimental at the moment. The people who have put comments on here so far have guided me in thinking I will just write whatever I am thinking at the point I decide to click on the blog link. It's all random.
As far as the SK124 forum goes, yes I was disappointed today. I think I got caught up in a little bubble with one thread (the imagination thread) and thinking that everyone was involved in it. I then happened to click on the chat forum and saw a thread about how negative people found the forum and that people felt uncomfortable to post, and students appear to be forming cliques etc... I then looked back at the imagination thread and wondered if people who hadn't joined in at the beginning felt they couldn't join in at a later point, and that was what I found sad. I would never like to be a part of making someone feel excluded, even if it was unintentional. I think that rather than putting it up on the forum, which might have sparked an emotional conversation, I talked it through on here. I, like you, hadn't noticed negativity, and it always makes me feel strange when I appear to have completely missed something like this.
I'm still not sure what I think about the blogging as a whole. I really can't tell if it serves any particular purpose or not. But I'm going to do it now and then for this month and make my judgement at the end.
That fora thing came up in another comment and I spent quite a long time on google as a result! Either plural is fine, fora is Latin, forums is English.
You are more than welcome to quote the tea cup story. I'm glad it was of use. Nice to see you on here anyway - each comment I get surprises me, it's amazing how quickly I forget that other people may be reading. It's been quite an experience so far for me!
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Hi Roise, You may not catch up with this comment as I am I reading up on older entries. This is just what a blog should be in my opinion. 'Stream of consciousness,; jsut starting putting into words a thought you have a see where it goes. I'll be reading more as insights like this are rare: truely, the honest, regular blogger is a rare thing.New comment
Thanks Jonathan, good to hear that.