[Moodle] Double Standards??

Mon Mar 23 13:35:24 EST 2009

Hi Ros,

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.

Cheers
Neil

From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ros Meadows
Sent: Friday, 13 March 2009 8:10 PM
To: The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Moodle] Double Standards??

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Cheers
Ros

Fahey, Neil M wrote: 

The Herald Sun is somewhat bad for the brain... I think I get dumber
every time I read it!

From: moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au
[mailto:moodle-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Ros Meadows
Sent: Wednesday, 11 March 2009 9:11 PM
To: Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List; The
Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List
Subject: [Moodle] Double Standards??

Hi all

The moodle site I set up on our web server was inaccessible for some
time today - the message ACCESS: DENIED came up.
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
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
    - NBL player involved in a s&x assault
    - Home and Away to feature a le$bi at n romance (It was referred to as
"Home and a Gay")
    - Gmail servers down due to p0rn attack
(misspellings here so this email will hopefully get through Kevork's
filter system!!)

No wonder the filter had banned the site!!

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!!!

Yet the whole moodle site was blocked - even though it only displayed
the headings!!

Double Standards?? Or perhaps we should also ban students from reading
newspapers at school?????

Sometimes ya just gotta have a giggle!

Cheers
The Lone Moodler
Ros Meadows
BentleighSC
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