[Rich Goodman]

probably a dumb question, but how do I join the webinar today?

[Rich Goodman]

Staying here seems to make sense, hopping around to various other places could start to get confusing.

[Rich Goodman]

Must admit I was shocked by all of the “please take me off, I don’t want this” activity. Given that mailing lists have existed for over 20 years, my (it seems naive) assumption was that people knew all about them and how they worked by now. Perhaps my judgement was clouded by years of experience looking after a lists server with ~6,000 mailing lists on it.

 

 

However, people genuinely seem not to know how they work. Perhaps because it is a dying art with people tweeting instead? Or following RSS feeds. Or something else. But the fact that lots of people operated under the “a human reads all of these messages therefore I’ll ask them to take me off” principle (whilst replying to messages that contained instructions on how to carry out that task they wanted someone else to do just goes to show that assumptions are dangerous!

 

 

And every e-mail account that I’ve ever used has had some form of filtering on it (from hand coding my own .forward files back in the early days, to Exchange and GMail filters nowadays). So again, a lack of knowledge about these functions was surprising.

 

 

Perhaps the only non-surprise was that people had ticked a box on a sign up form without fully comprehending what that meant. Have you read all of the iTunes terms and conditions that you’ve clicked to say you have? Like the bit that says you can’t use it to make “nuclear missiles, chemical or biological weapons”? Of course you haven’t…

[Rich Goodman]

The first webinar is this Wednesday (April 10th).

Rich

[Rich Goodman]

We had one computer at my primary school (the classic BBC Model B) and I quickly became the main operator of it. The rest, as they say, is history…

[Rich Goodman]

Go team!

[Rich Goodman]

From the “Week 0” e-mail:-

 
Come and join the live webinar on 10 April at 12:30 (BST)

 

 

There will be a weekly webinar at lunchtime on Wednesdays, starting on 10 April. This week’s webinar has two parts: First, there is a welcome to ocTEL, including a brief orientation and networking session. The main presentation is led by Diana Laurillard and will focus on ‘big questions’ in Technology Enhanced Learning, getting participants to think about their own questions and how these can be explored over the next 10 weeks.

[Rich Goodman]

Sounds like a plan! I’m in!

I’m a VLE Developer, E-Learning Manager, tutor, systems administrator, content creator, former e-mail system administrator, programmer, lecture capturer and many other things besides…

Rich

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