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color:#1F497D'>Hi Ros,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Just want to point out I was purely making an off-the-cuff joke
and wasn’t in any way suggesting that you are doing something bad by using the
Herald Sun’s RSS feed. I’d rather not enter into such a discussion here on the
Moodle forum anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Cheers<br>
Neil<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>
moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Ros Meadows<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 March 2009 8:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Moodle] Double Standards??<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes Neil,
many teachers will only read The Age. But I actually asked a small group of
Year 10 kids about what newspaper they would prefer on the moodle RSS and they
chose the HeraldSun - probably because for most of them if a newspaper comes
into the house at all it would be the Herald Sun not the Age. I figured if I
put the Age there they wouldn't bother reading the news, whereas if I put the
Herald Sun in the RSS feeds there would be more chance of them reading it. <br>
<br>
I am not going to attempt to indoctrinate my students about which is the better
paper, if they would prefer to read about the latest TV soap opera gossip
rather than the latest Canberra soap opera gossip then so be it, at least they
are reading! I believe it is about relating to the kids and their tastes and
choices, not forcing my tastes and choices upon them.<br>
<br>
Besides, as far as I could gather from the front page of the Age website, they
do not provide RSS feeds. Certainly it is not obvious on their home page, but
maybe I just couldn't find it.<br>
<br>
I also believe the Herald Sun is technologically a superior website - certainly
during the bushfires they used available technologies such as embedding
interactive google maps of the bushfire areas, allowing people to post messages
to relatives or friends to find them etc to a much greater extent than the Age
(which failed to use any of these technologies at all). The Herald Sun also
allows comments on news items from anyone - you don't have to have an account
with them to post a comment, and I felt that commenting on some of the Tech
News items could be a good class activity for students at some stage. Overall
the Herald Sun website has embraced Web2.0 technologes, whereas The Age website
is still a pretty static Web1.0 site.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Ros<br>
</span><br>
Fahey, Neil M wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The Herald Sun is somewhat bad for the brain... I think I get
dumber every time I read it!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a
href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au">mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ros Meadows<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 11 March 2009 9:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; The
Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Moodle] Double Standards??</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<br>
<br>
The moodle site I set up on our web server was inaccessible for some time today
- the message ACCESS: DENIED came up.<br>
Wondering why this was so I spent some time using my mobile broadband internet
connection to log into it and investigate student logs and profile pics,
looking for obscenities etc<br>
In frustration I returned to the home page only to scroll down and see the RSS
feeds (Herald Sun Top Stories and Tech News) featuring articles on<br>
- NBL player involved in a s&x assault<br>
- Home and Away to feature a le$bi@n romance (It was
referred to as "Home and a Gay")<br>
- Gmail servers down due to p0rn attack<br>
(misspellings here so this email will hopefully get through Kevork's filter
system!!)<br>
<br>
No wonder the filter had banned the site!!<br>
<br>
So I fixed it by completely deleting all of the RSS feeds, but I contemplated
the fact that students in my class could get up and walk to the other side of
the Library, pick up a copy of the Herald Sun, and read, in full, all three
articles. Oh how their minds would become corrupt by this act!!!<br>
<br>
Yet the whole moodle site was blocked - even though it only displayed the
headings!!<br>
<br>
Double Standards?? Or perhaps we should also ban students from reading
newspapers at school?????<br>
<br>
Sometimes ya just gotta have a giggle!<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
The Lone Moodler<br>
Ros Meadows<br>
BentleighSC<br>
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