Re: Positioning document for web ed learning material

On 3 Mar 2012, at 01:38, Adrian Roselli wrote:

> *Any* thoughts?
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> When I interact with professors they (nearly) always ask about how to stay current. Many don't know what resources to visit for current trends and to see how things are evolving. I suspect we all know how radically different many web dev aspects can be in any 6 month window.

Good call - I've mentioned wanting to stay current specifically in the teaching tasks.

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> You may have considered this in your "reading lists" bullet, but I am wary of the can of worms recommending specific blogs/sites can open. I, for one, rail against any reference to W3 Schools. While I used to recommend evolt.org, I think we all know its time has passed.

It is difficult, but we will just have to try to keep monitoring reading lists, and making regular updates.

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> Is it too early to identify a set of parameters for suggesting ongoing, day-to-day online resources?
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I'm not sure what you mean by day-to-day. Do you just mean "resources that teachers and students can turn to in their day to day studies, as they go?

This is what we want to be anyway.

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> Sent from my tablet and probably full of typos as a result.
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> On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:04 PM, "Chris Mills" <cmills@opera.com> wrote:
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>> Some thoughts I have put together over the course of today, detailing how our learning material might fit in with educators and students involved in web ed courses, and next things I am going to do.
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>> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/wiki/Positioning_document_for_web_ed_learning_material
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>> any thoughts appreciated
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>> Chris Mills
>> Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
>> Co-chair, web education community group, W3C
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