Tag: digital mentoring

Digital mentors as pastoral carers?

  • December 9, 2008 at 1:10 pm

  • I’ve wittered about this before, but I’m still concerned about the dangers of encouraging new people to use social media tools without supplying some sort of pastoral care, or covering some of the social and legal implications that they may encounter. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most of the time we evangelists [...]

Digital Mentor tender: first round

  • December 5, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  • If you’ve been following this blog you may be somewhat surprised by my apparent sudden conversion to the idea of digital mentors. In fact, although I haven’t posted here recently I have contributed a little to digitalmentor.org.

Blogging for the sake of it may be no bad thing

  • October 13, 2008 at 8:00 am

  • Much has been debated about the merits of blogging: as journalism; as a mouthpiece for the masses; as a platform for the literate and illiterate alike. But what about as a therapeutic activity? Or, rather, as a creative outlet for those of us who may sometimes be uncomfortable in traditional social situations? I’m not going [...]

Why NOT blog about what you wouldn’t talk about?

  • October 6, 2008 at 5:09 pm

  • Quite often I hear advice to the effect of ‘Don’t express online what you wouldn’t be happy defending offline’. I agree with this insofar as it protects the writer, but I no longer agree with it as an attitude with which to approach the web. If (as I have written before) we should be willing [...]

Digital mentors?

  • September 25, 2008 at 10:51 am

  • My skepticism has been assuaged considerably since this was originally posted, but it would be wrong of me to alter the post so I haven’t; and besides, the arguments are still worth having. I want to endorse the idea of ‘digital mentors‘ [link updated], really I do; but the more I think about it the [...]

Should we tackle the digital divide or live with it?

  • September 25, 2008 at 9:37 am

  • At three o’clock this morning I finished a frantic flurry of blog posts and Twitter tweets, and tried to sleep. Instead I began to panic. When this happens – and it happens a lot these days – I feel that I’m on an irreversible and rapid ascent to the peak of my sanity, at which [...]