Comment Re:In defense of WebCT (Score 1) 277
Hi Anonymous Cobarde,
I would be really grateful to your comments because, caused by them, I've been laughing some minutes. Your message includes all the required elements to call my attention (Apple, Moodle and Open Source). Great!
When somebody lies and, in my modest opinion, you are lying like a "zealot" (in your own words), it's good to give him a warning about the negative feeling that it causes to people trying to communicate their opinions. Please, Cobarde, I assume that you are an expert user of the product you are defending and I'm pretty sure that you will find better reasons to defend it without the use of insults and lies.
I think I don't hate WebCT nor Blackboard. But reading your comments it seems that I should do it. Would you be able to reason out simply why? Perhaps you will be able to convince me about it. If not, for now, I prefer to respect both products and no-one line against them will be created from my keyboard (although I admire people without doubts like you, being able to fix the pros and cons of one product with some, more or less, gratuitous affirmations and no-sense phrases).
Calling "single pedagogy" to something like Social Constructivism is really aberrant and I hope that people (learning professionals) reading it don't associate your wrong knowledge of such cool philosophy with any type of relation or dependency, personal or professional, between you and WebCT. It could have absolutely bad consequences about people perception over WebCT, thinking that it's against such "simple pedagogy". And I think it isn't against it, can you clarify us that aspect?
About what's better, well, I only can affirm one thing: They are different. Point. As you will know someday if you participate in something more interesting than your lies (and there are tons of thing more interesting than them out there) people uses to play and test products to, finally, make a decision from the alternatives analysed. Sometimes, the decision is easy (based in the fulfilment of some key requirements) and sometimes the decision is hard (to value all the variables in the equation).
I'm sure than you, thinking a bit, would be able to talk seriously about the advantages of WebCT. Ok, no problem. Imagining that you are not a liar I believe you. And? You (nor me) will do people change their decisions or preferences based in a subjective opinion about the benefits of using one product. Nowadays, people wants to experiment themselves because, in the past, liars have forced them to make wrong decisions because their declaration was riddled with lies, so some sort of distrust is always present. Whereas it's regrettable, it has caused one, in my opinion, great effect. It consists of people, thanks to the "democratisation of the technology", being able to select the best for their own. Simply, leave your product to the arena and we'll see how it's accepted. I must recognise that, for people used to fool customers, it's a bit difficult to do that. I'm not worried about it, and you?
Finally, I won't type anything about some of your phrases because, simply, they are absolutely unjustified, inappropriate, incongruous, impolite and out of place (thanks Apple's Dictionary).
Well, this is my first post to slashdot. I must be graceful to your previous message because it encouraged me to write this lines and I think that it's enough for now. Just a final recall to moderation (if possible) and all the best for WebCT, Blackboard and, of course, Moodle.
Ciao, one non expert in anything moodler :-)
I would be really grateful to your comments because, caused by them, I've been laughing some minutes. Your message includes all the required elements to call my attention (Apple, Moodle and Open Source). Great!
When somebody lies and, in my modest opinion, you are lying like a "zealot" (in your own words), it's good to give him a warning about the negative feeling that it causes to people trying to communicate their opinions. Please, Cobarde, I assume that you are an expert user of the product you are defending and I'm pretty sure that you will find better reasons to defend it without the use of insults and lies.
I think I don't hate WebCT nor Blackboard. But reading your comments it seems that I should do it. Would you be able to reason out simply why? Perhaps you will be able to convince me about it. If not, for now, I prefer to respect both products and no-one line against them will be created from my keyboard (although I admire people without doubts like you, being able to fix the pros and cons of one product with some, more or less, gratuitous affirmations and no-sense phrases).
Calling "single pedagogy" to something like Social Constructivism is really aberrant and I hope that people (learning professionals) reading it don't associate your wrong knowledge of such cool philosophy with any type of relation or dependency, personal or professional, between you and WebCT. It could have absolutely bad consequences about people perception over WebCT, thinking that it's against such "simple pedagogy". And I think it isn't against it, can you clarify us that aspect?
About what's better, well, I only can affirm one thing: They are different. Point. As you will know someday if you participate in something more interesting than your lies (and there are tons of thing more interesting than them out there) people uses to play and test products to, finally, make a decision from the alternatives analysed. Sometimes, the decision is easy (based in the fulfilment of some key requirements) and sometimes the decision is hard (to value all the variables in the equation).
I'm sure than you, thinking a bit, would be able to talk seriously about the advantages of WebCT. Ok, no problem. Imagining that you are not a liar I believe you. And? You (nor me) will do people change their decisions or preferences based in a subjective opinion about the benefits of using one product. Nowadays, people wants to experiment themselves because, in the past, liars have forced them to make wrong decisions because their declaration was riddled with lies, so some sort of distrust is always present. Whereas it's regrettable, it has caused one, in my opinion, great effect. It consists of people, thanks to the "democratisation of the technology", being able to select the best for their own. Simply, leave your product to the arena and we'll see how it's accepted. I must recognise that, for people used to fool customers, it's a bit difficult to do that. I'm not worried about it, and you?
Finally, I won't type anything about some of your phrases because, simply, they are absolutely unjustified, inappropriate, incongruous, impolite and out of place (thanks Apple's Dictionary).
Well, this is my first post to slashdot. I must be graceful to your previous message because it encouraged me to write this lines and I think that it's enough for now. Just a final recall to moderation (if possible) and all the best for WebCT, Blackboard and, of course, Moodle.
Ciao, one non expert in anything moodler
