another elearning reference and accessing everyday information

eLearn Magazine: Education and Technology in Perspective
http://elearnmag.org/

I thought some of you might like to read some more about elearning and there are some pretty good articles there. A colleague of mine emailed me an article from there and I decided to visit the site. It's decent.

On a very different note, I looked up the weather today as I do most days when I wake up and I refer to one or both of these sites usually:
http://www.bom.gov.au/ (the government site for the bureau of meteorology)
http://www.weatherchannel.com.au/ (these guys get their info from bom.gov.au anyway)


The Weather Channel said:
Sunday
Areas of rain at first with strong gusty north to northwest wind, locally reaching gale force. A colder, squally west to southwesterly change by the afternoon. Scattered showers with local hail and thunder to follow then snowfalls developing down to 600m later in the day and evening.

I looked out the window and it was sunny, birds were chirping and it felt like it was really warm. Now in Melbourne, for those of you who don't know, this is quite a common experience and we all know to anticipate any kind of change within a matter of minutes. Anyway, so I went to the bureau's website to look at some maps. Look at this one:


I knew what was coming. Now I'm not saying all of this because there's anything special about what I was doing or necessarily about the weather (although that weather patch is kind of cool). I'm saying it because it got me thinking about all the texts and discourses I needed to have access to in order to work through all of this information. I wonder how many of our students in schools have access to these discourses and can interpret these texts in multiple ways. I wonder how this set of short but complex actions relates to all of the work we have been looking at this semester in our subject.