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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Incorporated Netiquette Well, been meaning to do a nice simple netiquette document (for faculty to use / adapt) for a while now but have never got round to it because I've either wanted to do too much, haven't felt up to it or whatever... but today finally thought: "Bugger this, I might as well give it a go" So, in my first attempt at using the story function I bring you a quick netiquette document that tries to: -Introduce the idea of netiquette -Give some examples from the 'real' and 'educational' world -Suggest a possible 1 pager for adaptation -Stimulate the development of and develop with the creation of other possible Netiquette docs Have a look, tell me what you think! 3:40:11 PM    comments   trackback

Yay, Ten Reasons is back! Hurrah 10RW or TRW or whatever it's called is back and running. No more lying in bed with your books now :o) 12:42:34 PM    comments   trackback

Toolboxes Call me a miserable old gumnut (eh?) but I'm not convinced by these toolbox thingys that the Australian Flexible Learning Framework have put together. Not convinced at all. Here's the blurb: "Each toolbox contains about 400 hours of learning, representing about 15 "units of competency", based on nationally recognised accreditations. Anyone can grab these online resources, activities and user guides, and cobble together their own problem-solving training programs." Which to me is underpinned by two incorrect assumptions: 1. Learning is about hours of content 2. That content is reusable (can be 'cobbled together') Now, I could, and probably will ;o), go on about this forever but it scares me when they boast that this is being used by  "Coles Myer, the NRMA, McDonald's and large banks" and that the consensus is that learning is able to be fragmented in such a way. Putting himself in managerial shoes, "I want people to learn very quickly a particular set of skills" says their chairman, Jim Davidson. I say, "sorry but you're working on an industrial approach to a post-industrial problem, as educator's we've got a responsibility to tell GMs that learning isn't about discrete acquisition of skills, to say that you can learn to do a mundane task through a flow-chart but that if you're looking for real learning and engagement, generic content will not, will not, will not do the job." The thing about these things is that they sound wonderful though... [thanks to online learning update for the link] 12:17:05 PM    comments   trackback

Nothing to do with the great civil rights leader, James Farmer, but here are some links that are:

Greensboro sit-ins
Reflections
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