Tag Archives: parallel-play

Parallel Play Grows Up, Part II

By Michael Feldstein | July 13, 2004

Well, the conversation continues, with an interesting twist. This time, one blogger has explicitly responded to a request for his input from another blogger. The semantics here are interesting, since the original blogger (Dave Hyatt) didn’t directly ask for comment. Instead, what he wrote was
I’ll be eagerly awaiting the responses of both Tim and Eric [...]

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When Parallel Play Matures Into Socialization

By Michael Feldstein | July 9, 2004

Here’s a great example of sustained and productive conversation supported by (or at least started by) weblogs and, perhaps, a counter-example to the blogging as parallel play argument. Recently, Apple Computer announced that they would be adding four extensions to HTML in order to support new features in the upcoming version of their operating system. [...]

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Blogging as Parallel Play

By Michael Feldstein | July 5, 2004

This post is an illustration of why Denham Gray is right in his position that the blog is not the be-all and end-all to online purposeful conversation (e.g., learning communities, communities of practice, etc.). There are lots of great points in this post, but he gets to the heart of the matter near the end:
A [...]

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