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O.K. so lately, I've been immersed in revamping a website for a pretty high profile interdisciplinary project at my institution. It's essentially related to all of those lectures I was playing around with (here, here, and here). In any event, all of this tweaking has led to (lo and behold) the website becoming what is essentially a blog...
One of the things we found out, is that in the student circles (at least it would appear at UBC), we ultimately got the impression that very few students were into this blogging thing. This, I found pretty surprising - I mean, it was obvious to me that Faculty folks (such as myself) might find it foreign overall, but I would've thought that quite a lot of undergrads would have been knowledgeable in this arena.
I'm wondering if this is an inaccurate observation, and whether in your own circles, you find that students tend to me pretty "with it" in these matters (i.e. maybe we're totally off base)
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, that effectively makes someone like you, a reader of ScienceBlogs, a bonafide Yoda in these affairs. So if you get a chance, maybe visit the new terry.ubc.ca website, and show them how commenting and stuff like that is suppose to be done.
Also if you're from UBC, I'm looking for some folks to have a coffee with - just drop me a line here. We'll talk about genetics, the value of mascots, whatever really.
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I too am surprised at how few student bloggers I encounter. Even in circles where efforts of science outreach are valued and blogging a potentially useful way to do that, students seem resistant to it. Given that there are a gazillion blogs out there, I wonder why this is. I know that there is a stigma around the ID, 'blogger'; it is somehow less serious than the other types of science outreach and certainly less important than the labwork and professional communication we grad students are learning to do.
I am Seattle and would like to someday meet you for coffee. Need I enroll at UBC?
Posted by: Thomas Robey | September 5, 2007 11:48 PM
Hi Thomas.
Let me know when you're next in Vancouver. We can certainly chat.
cheers
dave
Posted by: David Ng | September 6, 2007 10:30 PM
Cool.
Maybe sometime later this Autumn: November or December. I will email you well in advance.
Posted by: Thomas Robey | September 9, 2007 2:20 PM