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Sitting on the fence …

Filed Under (Podcasts) by madhu on 24-10-2008



As I read more about technology in education – I am both excited and a little intimidiated by the possibilities.  Listen to my podcast. podcast2410

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4 Responses to “Sitting on the fence …”

  1.   Time | Lost in Thought Says:
      October 26th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    [...] have just been listening to Madhu’s podcast . One of the key themes that comes out is the amount of time that it takes to organise a technology [...]

  2.   crinoidea Says:
      October 30th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    It used to take me ages to produce an assignment using Word, with tables and figures and pictures inside it…
    I mean hour after hour of frustration with out of control formatting issues.
    But now it is soooo much quicker.
    It shouldn’t take nearly as long once we’ve got our systems in place and we’ve planned and taught these lessons with technology once or twice.
    Pretty much like any lesson.
    The trick is to be able to use pre-made electronic/digital resources where possible and modify these as needed (of course respecting the copyrights of the authors)
    As months turn into years, we could incorporate technology increasingly more, as time permits.
    My point is: eventually, technology will make lessons quicker to prepare for…once we ‘get over the hump’….
    Not to say that I’ve not felt a good deal of frustration at the amount of time that using digital technologies consumes sometimes too!!!
    I must say that there are easier programs and there are harder ones too…
    I mean why can you simply paste a link or some writing (loaded with Word formatting) straight into facebook and it will appear without nonsense formatting language, automatically as a hyperlink, with all pictures viewable immediately, but with dear Edublogs (which we still applaud) this is all not so simple…
    And the amount of jargon that Facebook and Friendster somehow manage to do away with but Edublogs is loaded with doesn’t help either…
    OOOps… I got started again!!

  3.   Is computer latin for ‘con’ meaning ‘consume’ and ‘puter’ for ‘time’? | Mark Clancy's Bloggy Departure Lounge Says:
      October 30th, 2008 at 10:23 pm

    [...] Basil’s response to Madhu’s podcastmy heart went out to them both. But the current drain on our time that dig. tech. can make is no [...]

  4.   learningconversations Says:
      November 12th, 2008 at 9:20 am

    well done Madhu! MK.

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