Firing Up As I Write - Looking foward to many adventures in the online worlds of now and tomorrow!

Dear All,

I will be posting frantically over the weekend. If not I may well explode.

I would like to ask at this point, if your educational institutions and/or workplaces, blocking access to social networking tools OR embracing emerging worlds, staff working/learning alongside learners, for learners.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

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Comment by Simon Brown on July 27, 2007 at 4:19pm: I teach at a trade skills training centre, experiencing all of the above! The State Dept is centralising the learning resource repository, homogenising the learning management system, and unifying the 'user experience'. It's a time of great change, and resistance to change is part of that.

I've learned that to advantage 'the system' is to know it well, and be prepared to bend the rules. For example, if I were to find a videoclip on YouTube (blocked) that will educationally benefit my students, I could copy it to CD and show it in class.

Regarding blocked access to social networking - I'm building a student community at Ning, but it's only accessible outside the Institute student computer network. The few students who access computers outside class are advantaged.

Regarding staff learning Web2.0 skills, there is a growing community of teachers, librarians and instructional designers here in Queensland sharing with each other the best ways to do this.

Simon (s1mple)