It's been a few days

Hello blog, it's been a few days since we talked so here I am. I attended the book discussion/movie up at Tulalip last Friday. It was an interesting experience, but I'll save the rest of that for my reflection. I am now living alone as I mentioned I believe last post, but nothing much has changed yet.

After some thought, I have come to the conclusion that the blogs like this are the wrong way to go. When we have everyone on separate sites and we are trying to get a discussion, it is difficult. I understand the idea, to start a narrative between Cascadia and Tulalip, but I don't think this is the right way to go. While everyone is given their own domain, it makes it very difficult to see everything unless you follow everyone. Even then though it doesn't really offer a very nice interface to view everything quickly. Instead, I believe a public or semi-public forum might be better. There are many cheap and free forum utilities available. I'm not much a fan of the Angel Discussion board, and it has many limitations such as needing to be in the class to participate.

A public discussion board or forum would allow students from Cascadia and Tulalip to communicate in a more organized manner. Similar principals could be applied to what we have on the blogs now, such as a required 1 post a week and 1 reply a week. On a discussion board it could be the same, with making one new thread a week, and replying to someone else's thread. Maybe make it 2 replies, just to keep conversations going.

If everyone can easily see all the discussions going on, they might find more to relate to, and more to reply. I believe this setup would be much more conducive to a real conversation.

Well, I should go to sleep. Class is in uh.. 8 hours 23 minutes. I'll be sure to set my alarm.