Janer has passed me the February issue of CILIP 'update' which includes articles on e-learning and webct - in particular student perceptions of e-learning which are often in conflict with those of the universities. References there to see Students' frustrations with a web based distance education course (Noriko Hara and Rob Kling). Also useful examples of e-assessment and a webct course at City University (log on with username: gueststudent and password: mgi2001).
posted by Lesley Telford at 6:09 PM

 
Have set up a web-log for one of the courses - Issues and Concerns - that needs students to look at media coverage of Early Years issues. Am hoping that it could develop into a long term collaborative project. Who knows?
posted by Lesley Telford at 10:57 PM

 
I have been digging around for writing around the academic use of electronic discussion lists, and have put a page of on-line discussion: resources and references together. Though am not sure how much further this will get me in encouraging people to use the web to interact and communicate and with the enthusiasm that I feel! In the process, I came across Chris Jennings' Page to Screen which includes some excellent things - Islomania and, more prosaic but v useful, a link to Philip Greenspun's Converting from Microsoft Word to HTML.
posted by Lesley Telford at 3:17 PM

 
Internet joke.
posted by Lesley Telford at 9:33 PM

 
I have had the phrase 'a face like a robber's dog' running round my head for the past few days. Years ago, Colin D and I used to sit in the Victory Bar on Waterloo Station and plan to publish a book of sayings like this that we remembered from our childhoods. Never got anywhere with it - but today I came across some gems in Thomas A Van's 'Merseytalk' pages (University of Louisville).
posted by Lesley Telford at 11:01 PM