UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog

I found an interesting blog (Scouting Around) today, written by John Dorner, IT Trainer for NC Cooperative Extension. Check out these two recent posts:

Can Blogs Replace Newsletters: "Make your blog better than the hard copy issue - put more in your blog articles than your hard copy articles - because you aren't limited by the size of the piece of paper. Use photographs and links to related information - because you can. In the hard copy newsletter, be sure to mention that there is more in the blog and where to find it. This will encourage your clients to opt for the method that is better, faster, easier and cheaper for you to deliver."

"My audience doesn't use the internet": "I've heard more educators say - "My audience doesn't use the internet" or they "don't have email". If your audience isn't extremely poor (i.e. living in assisted housing or homeless), maybe you could do them more good by teaching them about the benefits of using the computer and the internet than anything else you can teach them. Teach them how to learn and the best tool to do that with is a computer connected to the internet."