Comments for CantaNet http://cantanet.org Updates from the CantaNet eLearning community Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on To LMS or not to LMS by Neil W http://cantanet.org/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-226 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:54:39 +0000 https://cantatech.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-226 Look forward to reading this report and very interesting comments asI thought they were the bees knees!!

]]> Comment on Organisational Review by Niki Davis http://cantanet.org/2011/05/27/organisational-review/#comment-222 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:09:10 +0000 http://cantatech.wordpress.com/?p=555#comment-222 This is helpful to the whole cluster and way beyond.
I think that our Blended Learning Project will be enhanced by it too and I hope that we will also end up with a number of perspectives too.
Thanks for sharing Darren.

]]> Comment on Networked Schooling by Rachel http://cantanet.org/2011/11/09/networked-schooling/#comment-215 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:02:39 +0000 http://cantanet.org/?p=640#comment-215 Yes Adrian, this is what the proposed N4L needs to address just as purposefully as it does in developing the infrastructure and services between schools. It won’t happen by itself, schools have got to step up and participate and it will need, as you say, a co-ordinated & visionary approach. I don’t know that we will find all the answers looking overseas as there are lots of great things happening here in NZ that can be adapted & scaled to suit our own schools and learning communities. But it definitely needs to be driven and not left to chance and should be happening now & not waiting for the cart (infrastructure/technology) to pull the horse (pedagogy & schools collaboration) as seems to be the current position.

]]> Comment on Networked Schooling by Adrian Bell http://cantanet.org/2011/11/09/networked-schooling/#comment-198 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:07:07 +0000 http://cantanet.org/?p=640#comment-198 Trevor raises an important issue. We have and are more so going to have connective tools with tremendous potential benefits for education across New Zealand schools, but there needs to be a more co-ordinated, visionary approach in order to gain the maximum benefit for education of these enhanced technologies. Is it going to be left to various clusters to come up with their strategies as in the early Cantatech model, or will government realise that here is an opportunity to show leadership and fund leaders in the field to visit overseas systems where these technologies have been applied in education before returning and adapting them to New Zealand education? We are at a crossroads where the whole educative village that Trevor refers to could be co-ordinated across schools and workplaces to provide a truly integrated and interactive educational system – of benefit to students, parents and teachers. If we all try to ‘re-invent the wheel’ ourselves with the application of the enhanced connective technologies at cluster level we are in danger of missing out on the benefits that a co-ordinated approach at national level could afford us.

]]> Comment on To LMS or not to LMS by sudsnz2 http://cantanet.org/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-177 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:03:37 +0000 https://cantatech.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-177 You can definitely do good things with an LMS, but I wonder how long they will be relevant to the type of education system we want. The rate of change in technology is such that no single LMS will ever be able to keep up. Thanks for the comment by the way. Not an easy decision I know, but I wish some schools would think a bit more laterally before investing thousands of dollars.

]]> Comment on To LMS or not to LMS by Allanah King http://cantanet.org/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-176 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:51:18 +0000 https://cantatech.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/to-lms-or-not-to-lms/#comment-176 Yes – I am still unsure of why the need for a institutional LMS

http://allanahk.edublogs.org/2010/08/12/why-would-a-school-pay-good-money-for-a-learning-management-system/

I have seen a couple of schools really make good use of an LMS- in this case Ultranet & KnowledgeNet. But wonder if the same effect could have been made with free tools rather than paying for an LMS.

]]> Comment on Networked Schooling by sudsnz2 http://cantanet.org/2011/11/09/networked-schooling/#comment-175 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:34:57 +0000 http://cantanet.org/?p=640#comment-175 Agreed thanks Rachel

]]> Comment on Networked Schooling by Rachel http://cantanet.org/2011/11/09/networked-schooling/#comment-170 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:46:33 +0000 http://cantanet.org/?p=640#comment-170 Thanks for sharing that Darren, will make sure i post this in a few places, some really important points here, particularly about the need for us to take collective responsibility for enabling these opportunities!

]]> Comment on Course Reflection: So how is it going? by sudsnz2 http://cantanet.org/2011/09/07/course-reflection-so-how-is-it-going/#comment-150 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:16:05 +0000 http://cantatech.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-150 Nice to see you here Aleta. Thanks for commenting. I wouldn’t worry about it. They don’t need to be on at the same time for those rich discussions to happen and you will find it much easier that I do, because you can follow up with students directly.

]]> Comment on Course Reflection: So how is it going? by Aleta http://cantanet.org/2011/09/07/course-reflection-so-how-is-it-going/#comment-148 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:49:11 +0000 http://cantatech.wordpress.com/?p=600#comment-148 I have been playing around with the idea of Skype in the class and wonder if that would help me. I know that mine kids are just 10, but I keep coming up with the same uphill battle of getting them on at the same time so some rich discussions could happen….however the idea is that they don’t need to be on simultaneously as it allows them the freedom of commenting in their own time. Bit of a catch 22 this one I think…will have to come up with something innovative!!

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