Comments on A www in the wwwTypePad2005-10-04T07:37:49ZEwan McIntoshhttps://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2005/10/a_www_in_the_ww/comments/atom.xml/Ewan McIntosh commented on 'A www in the www'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200d834aac7ac69e22005-10-04T08:27:43Z2007-04-25T23:59:59ZEwan McIntoshhttp://edu.blogs.comHi David, If you take a look at the MFLE you'll see that the 'Resources' section is a bit weak...<p>Hi David,</p>
<p>If you take a look at the <a href="http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle" rel="nofollow">MFLE</a> you'll see that the 'Resources' section is a bit weak at the moment. There are actually hundreds of resources which have to be gone through and tweaked for presentation online. The problem I have had is making a choice on how to spend my first 6 weeks on the project. I concentrated on the kind of thing that you're talking about: community, creativity, teaching ideas & concepts. I've had some flack for it but more often than not it's been the most popular section of the site.</p>
<p>People obviously do want to learn new ways of doing things - the stats show it - but there are still loads of people want content/resources. I'm happy to provide that - it takes a lot of time, though. It's also difficult to convince them that what they can make themselves is probably better than what a central website can provide if they use the principles David, yourself and I talk about on our blogs.</p>David Muir commented on 'A www in the www'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200d83475504d53ef2005-10-04T08:17:07Z2007-04-25T23:59:21ZDavid Muirhttp://profile.typekey.com/DavidDMuir/It makes sense to me Ewan. I am concerned that SSDN will concentrate on content at the expence of community....<p>It makes sense to me Ewan. I am concerned that SSDN will concentrate on content at the expence of community. There is a real danger that it will be another NGfL - some good stuff but hardly anyone using it - over-hyped and underused.</p>
<p>Perhaps part of the way to avoid this is to concentrate on the community. I like what David Warlick is doing. He is providing content, but more importantly (I think) he is providing tools. For example he argues that Information Literacy is important. One approach could be to provide high quality multimedia material, perhaps including video streamed lectures from David, to train pupils and teachers how to do Information Literacy properly. Or you can do what David does and provide Information Literacy tools like <a href="http://citationmachine.net/" rel="nofollow">Citation Machine</a> and <a href="http://classblogmeister.com/" rel="nofollow">BlogMeister</a>.</p>
<p>Hmm... I think there's a blog entry in there somewhere... now if only I can find 2 minutes to start work on it. :-)</p>