tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post8056815837579679802..comments2023-07-11T08:11:25.508-07:00Comments on Coursera Fantasy: Better Use of Discussion Boards?Laura Gibbshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-36198323960819574002012-08-01T10:37:29.056-07:002012-08-01T10:37:29.056-07:00Laura,I'm appreciating all your input in the F...Laura,I'm appreciating all your input in the Fantasy/Science Fiction course! I'm now following you on twitter. About twitter... Has anyone got a hashtag going for the course? I have to say that I got so caught up in trying to read the discussions in the course itself that I haven't looked out there to see what else is happening!Ilene Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14220242531828905127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-36098417663004601842012-07-29T17:17:52.942-07:002012-07-29T17:17:52.942-07:00Agreed! I love the give-and-take at Google+ which ...Agreed! I love the give-and-take at Google+ which is where I mostly hang out. I'm blogging for this class, but my real preference is usually just to be Google+ with all that give and take. The difference is that I can FOLLOW people at Google+ and click on a link to get to anyone's profile page and see their stream. Without profile pages to go along with our discussion boards at Coursera, I feel lost. Too impersonal for me. :-)Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-2087449589967917352012-07-29T16:49:08.424-07:002012-07-29T16:49:08.424-07:00One other idea for the forums (and one that we dis...One other idea for the forums (and one that we discussed with a Coursera engineer at a Coursera Meetup in Mountain View yesterday) is to make it easy to 'follow' people whose ideas or approaches you like. Perhaps this can be done through Search. I'll follow your blog, but I also like the give-and-take of the forums.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09872071729813183077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-88806288193603337112012-07-27T12:20:08.392-07:002012-07-27T12:20:08.392-07:00Got it, Cassandra - super! I subscribed! For me, i...Got it, Cassandra - super! I subscribed! For me, it's a lot more fun/easy to share things via blogs that I can see updated in Google Reader. I participated a LOT a the discussion boards this week, but now that I am finding more people with blogs, that will be so much better I think! Happy reading!Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-85441423415667293812012-07-27T12:15:08.373-07:002012-07-27T12:15:08.373-07:00Hi my name is cassandra and I am currently a full ...Hi my name is cassandra and I am currently a full time college student who is also participating in this Coursera class as well as several others. :) here's my blog for the class so far<br /><br />http://courserafantasyclass.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-78506570753878412822012-07-26T12:21:10.747-07:002012-07-26T12:21:10.747-07:00Hi Clare, nice to meet you here - and now I have a...Hi Clare, nice to meet you here - and now I have an avatar to go with your name; super! Yes, I have been using #fantasysf and #courserafantasy at both Google+ and at Twitter and have met up with some nice folks that way. I'm esp. glad to have found people at Google+ since that is my main place to hang out online!<br />I haven't visited the course site but someone at Google+ said the first writing assignment has no real guidelines - so I think I am going to do a storytelling approach after all, rather than an analytical essay. I know I will enjoy it far more that way!<br />If you are at Google+ and/or Twitter, let me know -<br />Here I am at <a href="https://plus.google.com/111474406259561102151/posts" rel="nofollow">Google+</a> and I am OnlineCrsLady at Twitter. I don't really use Twitter at all, but I resurrected my account for this course since it seems like a good forum for interaction... because really, the discussion boards there at Coursera basically just make my head hurt. :-)Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1619974859742853534.post-48577033249806838422012-07-26T12:17:19.827-07:002012-07-26T12:17:19.827-07:00Do you mean you're interacting with other peop...Do you mean you're interacting with other people on the course via Google+ and Twitter, I wonder? How are you doing that? Is there a hashtag?Clarehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13411950678231892082noreply@blogger.com