{"id":68,"date":"2010-11-02T09:38:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T07:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2010-11-10T15:07:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T13:07:15","slug":"guidelines-for-communication","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/guidelines-for-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is not a  face-to-face setting, with visual clues, the following guidelines will help you communicate effectively.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be careful with humour and tone in your postings. Emoticons icons  (smileys smile ) can help to lighten the tone, but remember that readers  come from different age groups and cultural backgrounds.<\/li>\n<li>Do not make comments about participants personalities or abilities.<\/li>\n<li>Acknowledge before differing. Differences of opinion are an opportunity to learn.<\/li>\n<li>Be concise. Long posts are usually not read. If you have a lot to say, structure your message with titles and paragraphs.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid acronyms. If you must use them, explain them clearly.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid putting words into capital letters \u2013 they are the equivalent of shouting.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t post \u2018I agree\u2019 or \u2018I disagree\u2019. Instead give your reasons.<\/li>\n<li>To show support for one each others ideas, ensure that every post gets at least one reply.<\/li>\n<li>Refer to people you know (friends, family members) by their first name only.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t post photos of people with their name alongside.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Adapted from http:\/\/blogs.saschina.org\/chemicalparadigms<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since this is not a face-to-face setting, with visual clues, the following guidelines will help you communicate effectively. Be careful with humour and tone in your postings. Emoticons icons (smileys smile ) can help to lighten the tone, but remember that readers come from different age groups and cultural backgrounds. Do not make comments about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}