The Blog: Our Bridge

This blog is a bridging tool for this class--we may have some things in common but we are here for different reasons, from different backgrounds, and have some other types of diversity among us. But, isn't that the purpose of this class? To learn to see the gaps in order to recognize where the bridges need to be built? And wouldn't it be appropriate to begin practicing in class rather than learning it from a distance? I think this blog will be a convenient interchange of ideas and opinions which contain small parts of ourselves through our thinking. Information then connects us all.

It is very neutral and equal (we all have assignments), it levels us as students regardless of age or gender or race, it is obviously for communicating thoughts, etc. so it effectively offers us a Third Place. The playful mood is something I'm banking on, but the home away from home seems a bit hyperbolic.