KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

This is a rant.  This is only a rant.  For the next few paragraphs, this blog post will be written accompanied by high-pitched squeals of frustration and frequent head banging.
Okay, so I’m in Blackboard using FireFox because I want to be able to use the Chat tool and the Chat tool apparently has “known issues” [...]

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I’ve had a bumpy start to my first few weeks back in the educational saddle as a distance education student.  Being a student after a 17 year absence was daunting enough, but I also

mis-read the start date of the class
had a helluva time tracking down the main text
had to get up to speed on a new [...]

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I’m not a teacher by profession.  I enjoy passing on knowledge and communicating, but there is not so much as a certificate IV lurking around the dusty recesses of my bookshelf.  I work with a roomful of educators and librarians and spend time online in various forums, reading blogs, newsletters and going to the occasional [...]

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If you haven’t had the opportunity to attend the danah boyd “Generation MySpace” seminars currently being run by education.au - there are a lot of ways you can participate in the conversations going on around the net and to catch up on her presentations.
1) For an intro, the Today Show on Ninemsn has posted the [...]

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Using the internet for politics has gotten a fair amount of press recently, but I think the recent US use of “You Tube” in the presidential debates got it all wrong. 
The candidates should have each been instructed to post a video response to an issue and then users could have rated the vidoes and commented upon [...]

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