Frances Bell

You are too kind!
As his nasty post has now been deleted, moodlers can not read how offensive it was.  Regardless of any worthy intentions, this guy has a little to learn about gratitude and politeness see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=52092#238025
Don't let him off the hook

Thanks for raising this and letting us know what happened.  Misunderstandings are common in forums (as in f2f) but a well-established member should know that you are unfailingly helpful, and a new one should "save their breath to cool their porridge" as they say in Scotland.

Just to say I have derived much benefit from reading your posts (some of them direct answers to my questions) and from looking at your excellent site.

Let us know if they apologise

Thank you so much Dan and A.T. - I will investigate groups and forums.
I am familiar with elgg.net - in fact I have a blog there at http://elgg.net/francesbell/weblog
(of the tree falling in the forest variety) which coincidentally has a posting not unrelated to another discussion here about the ethics of online discussion.
Now if that has entirely turned you off, please note that the blog has a rather lovely image of my garden in May (and you thought my avatar was cute!)

I am going so will watch out for you and Ray.

FYI


Call For Papers - Learning Technology Newsletter (ISSN 1438-0625) publication of IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/


* Deadline for submission: September 25, 2006.


Learning Technology Newsletter invites short articles, case studies, and project reports for special issue on "Blogging as an Educational Technology". The special issue will be published in Volume 8, Issue 4 (October, 2006).

** The newsletter is of non-refereed nature though the articles will be selected and edited by the Editor. **


* Editor:
Ali Fawaz Shareef, Maldives College of Higher Education, Republic of Maldives


* Special Issue Theme:

"Blogging as an Educational Technology"

Blogging is being extensively used today as a collaborative tool. Collaboration plays an important role in the field of education. Constructive paradigm emphasises on the use of collaboration to gain knowledge and understanding. Hence, a tool like blogs can make a huge impact in the field of educational technology. This issue of the newsletter will look at the ways in which blogs can be used in education. These issues include both existing projects, planned innovations as well as opportunities that can be gained using blogs. The focus of your article should be on how blogs are used or can be used as a learning technology. Please feel free to bring forward your ideas and views.


* Submission procedure:

1. The articles in the newsletter are limited to 1000 words. Over-length articles will not be published. 2. The manuscripts should be either in Word or RTF format. Any figures used in the contributions would be required separately in a graphic format (gif or jpeg). The figures should also be embedded in the text at appropriate places. 3. Please send the manuscripts by email as attachment to a.f.shareef@gmail.com (Subject: Learning Technology October 2006 Submission). 4. In the email, please state clearly that the manuscript is original material that has not been published, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.


Regards.
Fawaz
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Dr. Ali Fawaz Shareef             a.f.shareef@gmail.com
Maldives College of Higher Education
Faculty of Management and Computing,
Maldives College of Higher Education
Sosun Magu, Male' 2005, Republic of Maldives
Tel: +960 7855674
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