http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/06/01/text-messaging-killed-the-oratorstar/ How do we get there? Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:56:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/06/01/text-messaging-killed-the-oratorstar/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Jane Nicholls Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:33:09 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/06/01/text-messaging-killed-the-oratorstar/#comment-42 Now I've got that song stuck in my mind :). People are always having kneejerk reactions to technology. Could it be that the web 2 tools are opening lines of communication and allowing students to communicate with people outside of their culture in ways that were difficult before? Is it that students are learning to communicate more, in different ways? Could it be that we are augmenting their already full social agendas with even more orating, be this through podcasting or blogging? Mmmm, methinks the people who say that F2F communication is being ignored have not actually experienced the power of networking online. I have made so many knew contacts with like minded people who I could never have met in any other way as I am isolated at the bottom end of the bottom island of New Zealand. And the great thing is that I have managed to meet a lot of the people I network with at various conferences. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my mind . People are always having kneejerk reactions to technology. Could it be that the web 2 tools are opening lines of communication and allowing students to communicate with people outside of their culture in ways that were difficult before? Is it that students are learning to communicate more, in different ways? Could it be that we are augmenting their already full social agendas with even more orating, be this through podcasting or blogging? Mmmm, methinks the people who say that F2F communication is being ignored have not actually experienced the power of networking online. I have made so many knew contacts with like minded people who I could never have met in any other way as I am isolated at the bottom end of the bottom island of New Zealand. And the great thing is that I have managed to meet a lot of the people I network with at various conferences.

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