Frances Bell

I have found this quite a strange little exchange. I would have thought that to maximise your chance of an answer it would help to:

• state clearly and simply what you want to know
• be polite and avoid profanities in an international forum
• quietly ignore any suggestions you find unhelpful
  

It's quite a testament to the helpfulness and civility of the Moodle community that you got any answers IMHO.

Thanks Max. I already have a facebook account - I just wondered if anyone hyad used a facebook group in the way I described.

It's obviously a while since you made a call from a UK call box - it's now 40p minimum.

Let's not be too gloomy about young people and communications technology. The young adults that I work with generally have good phone etiquette unlike some senior former colleagues I could mention.  Also, most young people use these technologies creatively in a social way.  Obviously teachers in school may need to set boundaries but there are aslo educational and social benefits as Don has mentioned.

Hi Paolo,
Hope this exchange has been helpful (it has to me), and I agree with you about the HTML editor. Maybe it would be a good idea to go to the relevant forums to ask about Quiz and Wiki. There may be some specific suggestions on these.

A feature of many Web 2.0 applications and services is that they transcend boundaries home/work, private/public bringing benefits and problems. If (student) users generate content, what controil do they have over that? e.g. a student starts blogging in Moodle but wants to take their blog into the public (maybe ona different platform) . Should this be supported by standards?
Anyway we should be asking student users about this an other aspects. Maybe by taking a look at what they say, see this Facebook group with a familiar member.