I found this on on- line learning environmentson Vix MA site and thought it was an interesting view on how Firstclass works for on-line learning. I'm surprised that it is used by notschool as it does not seem to me to be very user-friendly. I find it a bit dull to be honest, not playfull at all.

Some one was saying today that their ideal would be a community that offerred a variety of formats so that you could choose. People could see the messages in their home mail boxes, use wikis and blogs, web sites, all manner of ways of accessing the conversations. I am having real trouble wondering what that would be like in practice. I like the idea of it but I wonder how productive that varied sort of environment would be. Would it still feel like a community? I am not sure. How does all this relate to play and delight? Well it seems to relate more to the lack of it on FC if I'm honest. Unless of course you count the 'delight' of watching pillars of the CU posting about their prowess at playing computer games that depict the bloody and violent deaths of innocent penguins! :-)

Ah well, I'll be on holiday this time next week and that should indeed be delightful. I can hardly wait. :-)