Comments on: Bad News and Good News! http://mvass.net/2008/05/03/bad-news-and-good-news/ The Online Diary of a Classroom Teacher Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:14:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mvass http://mvass.net/2008/05/03/bad-news-and-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-50 mvass Thu, 08 May 2008 17:10:45 +0000 http://mvass.edublogs.org/2008/05/03/bad-news-and-good-news/#comment-50 AAAARGG! Computers!! I spent ages replying to your great comment, Kim, (much appreciated) and then just when I pressed the submit button, I got the 'The page you are looking for is not available' message!! I'll say a very quick 'thank you' for now .... and go and update my conclusions to include the thoughts of my 'online critical friend' on the points you raised :) PS should I be using 'Word' to reply to imprtant comments .... at least then there'd be a saved version :( AAAARGG! Computers!! I spent ages replying to your great comment, Kim, (much appreciated) and then just when I pressed the submit button, I got the ‘The page you are looking for is not available’ message!!

I’ll say a very quick ‘thank you’ for now …. and go and update my conclusions to include the thoughts of my ‘online critical friend’ on the points you raised :)

PS should I be using ‘Word’ to reply to imprtant comments …. at least then there’d be a saved version :(

]]> By: KimP http://mvass.net/2008/05/03/bad-news-and-good-news/comment-page-1/#comment-49 KimP Wed, 07 May 2008 11:10:46 +0000 http://mvass.edublogs.org/2008/05/03/bad-news-and-good-news/#comment-49 I've just realized that your preparations for your CPD sessions actually reinforced your findings in your dissertation! You said in your dissertation that the boys especially enjoyed telling visitors to your ICT stand (at a technology show) how they used ICT in their learning, and that they would be great at helping at your CPD sessions, by making and using Vokis and Animotos. The Vokis and Animotos are visual - like the prevalence of pictures on the boys blogs. I've noticed that the boys in my class also are really good at making topic related vokis and animotos. In my experience, girls use these applications in a different way - more about how they see themselves, or want to see themselves; as opposed to the boys filling these applications with topic specific pictures and content. So you see ..... your preparations didn't actually hinder your dissertation prep - just supported it in a different way. Perhaps? What do you think? PS Girls seem more word oriented evidenced by their blogging stories, commentaries etc; whereas boys tend to prefer visual (and less text oriented) ways of expressing themselves. Maybe boys prefer to talk and show how to use an application, rather than using application for personal reasons. Don't know? Not sure? I’ve just realized that your preparations for your CPD sessions actually reinforced your findings in your dissertation!
You said in your dissertation that the boys especially enjoyed telling visitors to your ICT stand (at a technology show) how they used ICT in their learning, and that they would be great at helping at your CPD sessions, by making and using Vokis and Animotos.
The Vokis and Animotos are visual – like the prevalence of pictures on the boys blogs. I’ve noticed that the boys in my class also are really good at making topic related vokis and animotos.
In my experience, girls use these applications in a different way – more about how they see themselves, or want to see themselves; as opposed to the boys filling these applications with topic specific pictures and content.

So you see ….. your preparations didn’t actually hinder your dissertation prep – just supported it in a different way.
Perhaps?
What do you think?

PS Girls seem more word oriented evidenced by their blogging stories, commentaries etc; whereas boys tend to prefer visual (and less text oriented) ways of expressing themselves. Maybe boys prefer to talk and show how to use an application, rather than using application for personal reasons. Don’t know? Not sure?

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