My first day - Maryanne 16/10

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ACTIVITY 11.2 What makes good emoticons?

Hi, welcome to my planned discussion topic. In week four's discussions, we looked at typographical symbols and emoticons. This stirred me to delve further into emotional responses. A lot of responses we give can be misconstrued, unless the message and response is clearly written. I personally do not like ? or !!! I find these rude. I find a little smiley face very clear in its intention.


This week we are researching the usefulness of emoticons. Some threads to ponder and answer are:
Are they useful at all?
How useful are they for our group?
What emoticon/(s) adequately show the reader feelings that need to be communicated?
As a group, can we come up with a set of 10 standard emoticons that we would use?
According to Karen Swan, in her article about developing social presence in online course discussions, she discusses the importance of using affective indicators to communicate. She recommends that we respond with clarity and immediacy, to develop a social presence. She discusses the importance of using interactive and affective indicators.
(For those of you who would like to read the book I got this from: Learning and Teaching with Technology - Principles and practices. Edited by Som Naidu. Kogan Page, U.S.A. (Chapter 10).
- Maryanne
Eeek! It is Monday and Tim and I are facilitating this week. I am nervous that no one will join up and have a go. I have popped in a couple of times to peek and so far there is no one. Ahh Gordon has obliged and also Deb. Gordon has managed to find some pretty obscure symbols and Deb has stuck to safe. It is now midnight and I am pretty tired. I have just gone into the facilitator account and posted Tuesdays activity on.
So far there is little movement.

-Maryanne