Social networking etiquette
People manage to progress merrily through life, using seemingly archaic  tools such as ‘email’ (good grief remember when that seemed innovative?) without understanding the etiquette involved. With Web 2 tools being used in teaching and general communication, it is important for teachers to role model good ‘netiquette’ and also to familiarise their students with it as a standard practise. It is not possible or necessary to cover all social networking areas. In fact, if you look at the Wikopedia list of social networking tools, you will understand why. The li

A letter to a learner
Recently, I had lunch with a dear friend. While we were chatting, she told me that she would dearly like to enrol into some computer lessons, so that she doesn’t lose touch with technology. I admire her for realising that this is a need in her life. I was thinking about her comments afterwards and felt compelled to compose her a letter. It is really a letter to everyone, including myself. Dear friend, You were raised in a time when learning was only valued if it were formalised. In a time when the teacher was

Learner centred e-learning
Working in an institution gave me foundations! Kingsbury Training Centre 1978 In a past life, (for 28 years) I worked in the disability field, more specifically, with people with intellectual disability and autism.  In the late 1970’s I left school in the country, arrived in Melbourne and began work in at Kingsbury Training Centre, a new ‘forward thinking’ institution for people with intellectual disability. I was one of 3 st