Marc - That's a great post.
I do think, however, that you can also get a sense of being in a learning community through online participation - I can remember my own sense of excitement and encouragement when I first started to join communities like WebArtery and TrAce online about ten years ago, and found that there were all sorts of other people out there interested in the same stuff I was just discovering myself. Furtherfield itself is now an enormously important resource in this respect. We'd better hope that this is the case, anyhow, because the library system is going to be decimated for sure in the next few years. One theme which keeps emerging strongly from a whole sequence of recent posts is the extent to which we are now re-living the experiences of the 1970s. It's not just the cutbacks, which Labour would have made as well: it's the extent to which the Tories are using the cutbacks as an excuse to dismantle the welfare state. What's happening in the NHS at the moment is really alarming. I keep hoping that an issue is going to come along which will split the coalition and thereby force a general election, but maybe it's not going to happen. - Edward _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
