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<font face="Calibri">Love it Cameron!! </font><br>
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<div>How topical...</div>
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<div>On 17/02/2010, at 3:10 PM, Ros Meadows wrote:</div>
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<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000066"><font face="Calibri">Trudy -
feel free to use my stories - and here's
another...<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"> My oldest niece paid over $7000 for
a
wedding photographer and album... I've only ever seen one photo from
that album - the one she had printed for her mum which is on my
sister's mantlepiece. It's a lovely photo, but it tells nothing of the
beautiful ceremony or the fun we all had at the reception. My next
niece saved the $7000 and encouraged all wedding guests to bring their
cameras and/or phones and snap/video away, and also to include
photos/videos of the guests. We all uploaded our photos and videos
(hundreds of them) to facebook and my niece copied them all onto hers,
so all guests can view, comment and print. Our whole family - including
those who were overseas and unable to attend - can now revisit her
beautiful wedding ceremony, and the fun reception afterwards! It is the
best guest book ever, as we can all make comments too, and then even
comment on the comments!! Just the fact that she put all of this onto
facebook encouraged many family members to join, and then add other
family as friends, and I believe due to this event and the help of
technology our extended family are much closer than we ever were before.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Malcolm - yes we have registered at donotcall
but
still get the dreaded telemarketers, although less often nowadays<br>
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Suz - Yes I think kids are often more relaxed about expressing their
feelings via a keyboard. I don</font><font face="Calibri">'t think the
keyboard has taken away verbal communication, but rather ADDED to their
level of overall communication. <br>
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Technology is only considered bad by those who are too ignorant to
understand it and the zillions of good uses it has!!! Crossing the road
can be a bad experience too, but we still all take the risk!!<br>
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Cheers all<br>
Ros M<br>
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Arnott, Suzanne S wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Love
it Ros... and reflects what is starting to happen in our
house too – my guys are a little younger, but it is really nice to know
what is
going on in their heads... without having to ask... because if you ask
the
answer is often “meh”, but then you see the comment about “something”
on
facebook or twitter, and it can bring you closer...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">And
totally agree... we always try to have dinner as a family
with no TV etc... I guess whatever form it takes, digital or vocal,
it’s all
communication...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: "Brush Script MT"; color: rgb(64, 49, 82);">Suzanne
Arnott<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">eLearning
Leader<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sandringham
College<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Rd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sandringham<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Consolas; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">'A
computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a
typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body
can
connect with the universe and move bits of it about.'- Douglas Adams <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brentnall,
Trudy
J<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 17 February 2010 11:53 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> elearning Teachers' Mailing List; Ros Meadows<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [elearning] oldies but goodies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Ros,
what a fantastic insight into the use
of technology and the family. I would love to quote you (minus names of
course)
if you don’t mind. <br>
It provides examples of why connectedness is so positive and natural
and not
demonic as the media likes to convey at times.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Trudy<br>
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</span><b><span
style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; color: rgb(0, 0, 254);">Trudy
Brentnall</span></b><b><span
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MAROONDAH NETWORK <br>
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On 17/02/10 10:56 AM, "Ros Meadows" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="x-msg://7/ros.meadows@gmail.com">ros.meadows@gmail.com</a>>
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style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Roland
- I think technology has changed family relationships for the better...<br>
* I now no longer have to scream and yell to the other end
of the house to get my family out of their bedrooms and up to the
dinner table
- one simple sms does the trick!<br>
* I can follow my children's antics/photos etc on facebook,
plus comment!!! This has brought me much closer to them and many of
their
friends - many of whom have also added me as a friend :-)<br>
*When my daughter has not arrived home at 4am and her phone
is not answering (flat battery??) I just post to her facebook "Where's
Monica" and usually one of her friends will answer it with something
like
"We are in the city waiting for a taxi" (they all have facebook and
internet access on their phones!! It's just the batteries that are the
problem!!)<br>
*As a family we can share our photos via the web or MMS<br>
*Putting my mother (who lives in the country) on my mobile
plan (something I did about 6 years ago) now means I talk to her at
least once
a week (but usually 3 or 4 times) for as long as we like instead of the
hurried
calls we used to have because of the cost of STD calls and her
reluctance to
use her phone or allow me to use mine for long distance ("We better
hang
up darling this is costing money")<br>
*Both of my children will (strangely) talk much more openly
to me via facebook or MSN chat than what they would face to face - even
though
they may just be down the hallway in their bedrooms!!!!<br>
*We can all keep in touch much better (via phone, SMS, MMS
and chat) when travel and holidays keep us physically apart.<br>
<br>
Although I must admit I think the basis of good family relationships
goes back
to my first point - dinner together as a family at the table every
night with
the TV and all computers and phones OFF!!! Unfortunately nobody told
the
telemarketers about this so now we even take the home phone off the
hook!!<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Ros M<br>
BSC<br>
0412 614 062<br>
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On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="x-msg://7/rgesthuizen@gmail.com">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Interesting
article in The Age that languished as a draft for too long on my PC. An
oldie
but still worth passing on. Not such much about computer geeks but it
does give
a clue into the mind of what now might motivate our students.<br>
<br>
"Young people live life faster," says Lyn Goodall, president of the
Melbourne PC User Group. "They don't have a need or a wish to know what
is
going on under the bonnet of their computer." The modern young geek
seems
content to socialise online, rather than seek physical company of
fellow geeks.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<br>
<br>
And this article that considers how Technology has changed the family
relationships at home, sometimes for the worse.<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/tech-threatens-family-bonding-study/2007/04/11/1175971146577.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/tech-threatens-family-bonding-study/2007/04/11/1175971146577.html</a><br>
<<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Regards Roland</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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