Thursday, August 9, 2007

Since the previous post I found out that clicking does work and I have thought some more about sinking into social software

Strangely despite a couple of students seeming to have problems with web addresses not being accessible by clicking in the chat and virtual classroom java windows - I just tested this and it seems to work perfectly well for me in a Firefox browser. I hopw it is not one of these browser specific problems - what i think though is the window that opens is hidden from the users this week who could not see the site opwn up after they clicked the link to it in their chat and virtual environments.

On the more recent versions of Firefox the new window opens as a tab in the same instance of the browser as the java displaying the chat or VC it is therefore resized smaller and does not have a location bar which is a problem and also if you keep pressing the cursor down in the chat or VC environment you stay there and unless you saw the tab pop up you would not know it was there.

Another thing worth thinking about is this notion of dropping the whole LMS environment as the basis for our sessions and moving to Skype chat and other environments and only move to the LMS to demonstrate how an LMS works and what restrictions it imposes ( also what advanteages it has for automatic record keeping enrollment updating and centralising control)

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