Comments on: Chapter 1 draft is posted http://millenniumteacher.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/chapter-1-draft-is-posted/ New Media, Free Tools, and Classroom Practice Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:10:22 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Tony Hursh http://millenniumteacher.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/chapter-1-draft-is-posted/#comment-8 Tony Hursh Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:10:22 +0000 http://millenniumteacher.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-8 Good point, Lesli. I'll add some more material on trolls, flamers, spammers, and the other dark denizens of the innartubes. :-) Thanks for the kind words. I've been teaching this material to technologically-naive teachers for quite some time, with some degree of success. I'm glad my skills appear to be transferable to book form. Good point, Lesli. I’ll add some more material on trolls, flamers, spammers, and the other dark denizens of the innartubes. :-)

Thanks for the kind words. I’ve been teaching this material to technologically-naive teachers for quite some time, with some degree of success. I’m glad my skills appear to be transferable to book form.

]]> By: Lesli Smith http://millenniumteacher.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/chapter-1-draft-is-posted/#comment-7 Lesli Smith Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:55:53 +0000 http://millenniumteacher.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-7 I just finished reading the first draft of chapter one. It's a pretty difficult task to speak to your target population of digital immigrants (that would be me) and be informative without being condescending, but you do a pretty good job. My only comment so far is that you do seem to assume a little bit more knowledge of internet culture in your reference to trolls and flamers than the average teacher might now possess. In five years or so an explanation wouldn't be necessary, but for those of us who are still on the cusp of the immigrant population, these aren't well-known concepts, yet. I only learned of trolls myself after a prescient post by a fellow Moodler at Moodle.org a year or two ago. :-) I just finished reading the first draft of chapter one. It’s a pretty difficult task to speak to your target population of digital immigrants (that would be me) and be informative without being condescending, but you do a pretty good job.

My only comment so far is that you do seem to assume a little bit more knowledge of internet culture in your reference to trolls and flamers than the average teacher might now possess. In five years or so an explanation wouldn’t be necessary, but for those of us who are still on the cusp of the immigrant population, these aren’t well-known concepts, yet. I only learned of trolls myself after a prescient post by a fellow Moodler at Moodle.org a year or two ago. :-)

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