flashmeeting versus elluminate

Interesting this morning to be part of this on-line community. I really just wanted to sit back and listen to gather in the culture and protocals of the 'old hands'. This platform [on this take] seems more stable, with flashmeeting I could readilly see who was talking but there were far fewer people involved, with this group there are many more and as you indicated Sarah even more can be involved.

I have called my blog 5 tomorrows because it will include not only how I use these new tools in my tomorrow, I will also offer up some of the wonderful tomorrows others are planning around me.

Here is a starter. here in sunny Northland (NZ) there is a community with very strong links to its sea and Scottish settler past. It is a tight and highly articulate community with many resources in the people who live there and are prepared to put energy into it.

The proposed project is to restore a clinker settler's boat, to do this Adult Community Education funding hopes to fund a boat builder to teach locals the skills required to do the job, at same time developing in them new skills, hopefully through the Men's Shed concept sharing these with younger men, senior school students and (this it where it gets even more powerful) identifying where literacy and numeracy gaps lie and filling them through 'in community' teachers. This is the kind of project that Goverment funded ACE is perfect for, and if we can excite some school leavers and older learners to enrol at the polytechnic for full-time courses as a result our 'powers that be' will be even happier.