Hmm. I don't think it's so much that *I* don't see the magic any more - it's more regret that the people who use the net these days (like my class) don't see it as being any more magic than, say, a dishwasher. It's times and people who have changed, not me, and I can't get the magic across, what with the constraints on me and the apathy.
There is a very strict curriculum. I have gone off on tangents, though (for example I gave a two-hour lecture once about the history of the Net and the bits that were around before the Web, then logged them all onto a talker. It was the best IT class I ever did). They are the sort of kids who would sneer at people with online diaries, but I might talk about Salam Pax anyway - good idea.
It's not about the culture of the net, really, though. The vast majority of it is dry, dry stuff about IT in business. Like, how to lay out a workstation to avoid RSI, that sort of thing.
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There is a very strict curriculum. I have gone off on tangents, though (for example I gave a two-hour lecture once about the history of the Net and the bits that were around before the Web, then logged them all onto a talker. It was the best IT class I ever did). They are the sort of kids who would sneer at people with online diaries, but I might talk about Salam Pax anyway - good idea.
It's not about the culture of the net, really, though. The vast majority of it is dry, dry stuff about IT in business. Like, how to lay out a workstation to avoid RSI, that sort of thing.