http://scienceoftheinvisible.disqus.com/Education costs money. Ignorance costs more.enFri, 06 Nov 2009 04:54:03 -0000http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/11/has-blackboard-outlived-its-shelf-life.html#comment-22024477<p>I don't "care" in a theoretical sense, although it does raise some practical issues. I'm not particularly convinced the "VLE as a hub" metaphor is very accurate, the time-honoured "VLE as a filing cabinet" works better, especially as that's how everyone uses it. For those reasons, I'm headed in the FriendFeed direction.</p><p>Paradoxically, I'm getting more email traffic from students this year than for a long time (which is a pain as it's much more labour-intensive to deal with then other channels). However, little of it is coming through the institutional service, it's coming from a plethora of online services. They also expect realtime replies, even when they email me late at night!<br></p>AJCannFri, 06 Nov 2009 04:54:03 -0000http://scienceoftheinvisible.blogspot.com/2009/11/has-blackboard-outlived-its-shelf-life.html#comment-22024383<p>Ah ha - the pop up had popped up off the bottom of the page. Silly me not to have found it.</p><p>Interesting post Dr Cann. I guess the question is do we care? If we are going to follow the students to their place of conversation and meet them there, why not have a hub to 'keep stuff' in and talk elsewhere? We do it all the time.</p>Jo BadgeFri, 06 Nov 2009 04:48:30 -0000