Sam’s Online Journal

The image of the little girl walking alone along the beach is an excellent metaphor for e-learning. The internet allows children (and adults) to wander freely and perhaps aimlessly … searching. Sometimes however it can all seem to much and I think the large flock of seagulls engulfing the little girl represent how the big [...]

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I really like my e-learning metaphor! It is a painting by John Harrington from www.artsforge.com/visionforge/brycelander/subgallery/hope….
This image is symbolic of “Where the River Meets the Sea”. To me this saying describes the tools needed to search the internet. You begin with a whole load of information (the ocean) and then have the opportunity to branch [...]

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The week six activity required us to analyse some websites and rank them according to their level of active engagement. A lot of the sites would not load on these Macintosh computers however I did manage to explore two contrasting websites.
Crocodilian - I would rank this at 1 maybe 2 because the only time [...]

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Gerry that table is an absolute goldmine, although I would have to say that perhaps it is a bit too broad, and I do hope that somewhere in the 2nd chapter they acknowledge this (I still haven’t got around to reading it).
My parents fit into the ‘Me Generation’ and that table pretty accurately describes [...]

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