<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">"<i>Teaching VCE Software Development, I have learn to appreciate the good
and bad parts of all systems. Nothing is perfect. So use whatever
package to fulfil your requirements, as long as you are well informed
of all possible scenarios at the time.</i>"</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">I absolutely agree. Each system has its advantages and its disadvantages. eLearning is still a relatively new field and there are a huge number of potential solutions in this problem space. </span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>One example to illustrate this point is a website that I launched less than a month ago - Merspi: <a href="http://merspi.com" target="_blank">http://merspi.com</a> which is a eLearning website specifically for VCE educators and students to ask/answer questions.<br>
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<span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">The time/location restrictions that were inherent in traditional teaching are becoming increasingly blurred.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br>
The point is: tools like Moodle, Blackboard and eventually Ultranet are only the beginning. Mobile learning (<i>what happens when every student and teacher has an iPhone or smart phone?</i>) and Web 3.0/The Semantic Web (<i>what happens when your Facebook, Twitter, Blackboard, Blog and every other learning tool you use on the web can talk to each other and integrate?</i>) may provide us with completely new innovations that make the old ones seem like MySpace (look how fast that online empire was crushed!)<br>
<br>Web celebrity Gary Vaynerchuk in one of his videos talks about the Internet being a 'teenager' - it's about 15 years old. If the internet is a teenager, then social media is still an infant. If this is true, the possibilities are endless.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Apologies for contributing to the further derailing of this e-mail thread :-)</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Kind Regards,</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">—</span></span><br>
<br><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">James Spittal<br></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: xx-small;">Merspi</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(242, 101, 34); font-size: xx-small;">M</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: xx-small;">: +61 424 699 838</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br>
</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(242, 101, 34); font-size: xx-small;">E</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Sans-Serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: xx-small;">: <a href="mailto:jspittal@merspi.com" target="_blank">jspittal@merspi.com</a></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br>
<a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.merspi.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(242, 101, 34);">http://www.merspi.com</span></a></span><div dir="ltr" style="padding: 5px 0pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px;">
<a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesspittal" style="padding: 0pt 2px;" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/linkedin.png" alt="Linkedin" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 5px;" width="16" border="0" height="16"></a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/merspi" style="padding: 0pt 2px;" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/facebook.png" alt="Facebook" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 5px;" width="16" border="0" height="16"></a> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/merspi" style="padding: 0pt 2px;" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.images.wisestamp.com/twitter.png" alt="Twitter" style="vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 5px;" width="16" border="0" height="16"></a> </div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Kevork Krozian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:K.Krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">K.Krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2">Hi Laurie,</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2"> Sorry, that comment -- " Since moodle and ultranet are effectively trying to deliver the same thing " -- was not as accurate nor scientific as it may have come across .
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">No , Moodle and Ultranet are not the same thing. That was not the debate I wanted to have or focus on, rather just to try to rationalise why I asked the question on this forum .</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Apologies for sending you off on a tangent.
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma" size="2">Thanks to Donna, Roland, Donald, Paul , Matthew for their quick replies. ( Sorry if I missed anyone )</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">Kevork Krozian<br>
<font face="tahoma">Digital Learning Manager</font><br>
<font face="tahoma">Forest Hill College</font></font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><a href="mailto:k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">k.krozian@fhc.vic.edu.au</a><br>
<font face="tahoma">Tel: 0419 356 034</font></font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] On Behalf Of Laurie Savage [<a href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 9 November 2009 9:11 AM<div><br>
<b>To:</b> 'The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List'<br>
</div><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Moodle] Ultranet quick timeline of history<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’m not sure that I agree with you there Kevork. I would see Moodle as an adjunct to the Ultranet. I’m hoping in the best of all possible worlds that the
Ultranet will provide a high level of administrative function which would be redundant in a Moodle.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Laurie</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevork Krozian<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, 8 November 2009 9:56 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Moodle] Ultranet quick timeline of history</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> Since moodle and the ultranet are effectively trying to deliver the same thing, I assumed this was the best list to post to. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> I was wondering if anyone had a timeline of the ultranet history to date ?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I need to brief some colleagues on the timeline of the initiative from date of concept announcement, progress, tender, re-tender, how long we have been waiting and when we
can expect to see it if we are not an ultranet coach or a select school.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Kind Regards</span></p>
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<a href="mailto:kevork@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">kevork@edulists.com.au</a><br>
<a href="http://www.edulists.com.au" target="_blank">www.edulists.com.au</a><br>
Tel: 0419 356 034</span></p>
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