July, 2006

Blogging in the wiki

Well, I seem to have been slack. BUT, I also have a new blog IN the wiki. That one will be things I can say in class.

I was really surprised with the class. Normally it takes a couple of weeks to get students interacting. But by the end of two hours, many of them had already had a say. The first half of the lecture was so traditional, introducing the course, assessment etc, but the second half, when I started to go through the things that they would be able to do, particularly that they could focus on any topics within ICT, seemed to get them quite excited.

My RA and I are going to start a forum about issues that arise in the wiki. Kind of get students to see what implications there are for teaching. We had such a great discussion after the class, but right now, I’m exhausted. I’ll spend most of the weekend packing and moving (it started yesterday). Hopefully some of the things we talked about after the class will come back to me, cos there were some really interesting insights.

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Quote?

It is better to be vaguely right, than precisely wrong.

Who said this?

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Slackness quotient … up?

Damn.

I just realised I haven’t updated for nearly two weeks. That’s two weeks of reading not done. I was going to get up to speed. And I can’t for the life of me think what I’ve been doing for the past two weeks. Sure, I got all of last semester’s marks out of the way, and yes, I’ve provided a bit of direction for a number of people, but why has my direction suffered.

I’m supposed to start my fellowship today. The wiki has not been implemented (hopefully it will by the end of the week), I haven’t looked over the course outline for the readings I have to get digitised. I feel like I’m way behind.

I did start to write the paper I flagged a couple of weeks ago expanding the concept of Digital Natives/Digital Immigrants. I’ve tentatively called it Rethinking Digital People.

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