Re: Re: Designing conversational learning environments with personal Webpublishing practices and technologies

Thanks for taking the time to actually read through my stuff.

The "dry, academic approach" of the paper is easily explained. If you want to engage in dialogue with your academic peers (and supervisors... in my case) via writing you normally try to use the code of your trade, don't you? Especially if you try to express some thoughts and concepts that deviate from the mainstream in particular ways. So... I guess it is all about purpose.

I certainly agree that writing for a more diverse audience would require a different approach... and that there is still a lot of room for improvement in my English writing skills.

I strongly disagree that any knowledge can be "transmitted" efficiently...

A sort of summary of the article is available in form of a presentation that I did at the BlogTalk conference. (http://static.cognitivearchitects.com/gems/Seblogging/ConversationalLearningTool.ppt)

I would also be happy to answer further questions or reply to your comments over at http://seblogging.cognitivearchitects.com/discuss/msgReader$964

Greetings
Sebastian

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Re: Re: Re: Designing conversational learning environments with personal Webpublishing practices and technologies by Anonymous Monk on Jul 12, 2003 at 22:17 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to actually read through my stuff. Sorry, I can't read all of everything ever written. Sometimes I have to set priorities and evaluate essays before I read them in entirety. The "dry, academic approach" of the paper is easily explained. You'll have to forgive me here, I was never much of a fan of said approach in any context. Different target audiences I guess, but nevertheless I think it would have been made much more useful to this site's visitors if a summary in a different form had been provided (which is obviously not required from you, but rather from the poster). I strongly disagree that any knowledge can be "transmitted" efficiently... All depends on your definition of efficiency and the mode of transmission. I think we have plenty of room to improve :). Anyways, sorry if the first post sounded like a flame, it was meant to be constructive. Thanks for making the article and presentation available :)	[reply]

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by Anonymous Monk on Jul 12, 2003 at 22:17 UTC

Thanks for taking the time to actually read through my stuff.

Sorry, I can't read all of everything ever written. Sometimes I have to set priorities and evaluate essays before I read them in entirety.

The "dry, academic approach" of the paper is easily explained.

You'll have to forgive me here, I was never much of a fan of said approach in any context. Different target audiences I guess, but nevertheless I think it would have been made much more useful to this site's visitors if a summary in a different form had been provided (which is obviously not required from you, but rather from the poster).

I strongly disagree that any knowledge can be "transmitted" efficiently...

All depends on your definition of efficiency and the mode of transmission. I think we have plenty of room to improve :).

Anyways, sorry if the first post sounded like a flame, it was meant to be constructive. Thanks for making the article and presentation available :)

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