Friday, March 27, 2009

learning 2.0 in practice: Stumped!!

It has been awhile since I finished the learning 2.0 course (the debate about whether it can actually be "finished" may have to wait for another time) and the knowlege that I had gained had been nagging at me to try and implement some strategies learnt throughout the course. In particular I had been struck by the collaborative capabilities of the net and online applications. So I thought I could produce a document (that the library where I work did need to produce - which was related to informing new borrowers of fundamental library procedures). I wanted to produce it online and so all of our staff members can have access privileges via Google Docs to edit the document and make suggestions etc. However when I invited the staff members through their work emails to give them this access the emails were allegedly blocked by the council's spam stopper. One of the reasons that I can guess that this happened was that I had signed in using my GMail account and that is where my invitation originated from; not only that I was sending it to multiple email addresses - which is common for spammers.

After this I couldn't really be bothered pursuing it any further, and the document now is going to be produced by one person by good ole pen and paper. How is that for progress?