Social tech units

I suppose I can mention here that two of the units which perhaps one day will be used in the Soc Tech course are now up and running... sort of. One unit - the level 3 unit recruited sufficiently to run and has now a cohort of enthusiastic if sometimes bemused students studying on it. I find myself on a steep learning curve with new technologies popping up frequently or old ones taking a sudden new turn. We're currently trying to develop materials that will be passed on to the future generation of social technology students. We're reluctant to go down the route of developing a text book and instead we're building wikis and blogs to try to keep a history of what is occurring around us and to offer definition where that is now just about possible. And the ideas keep pouring in. I think that finding ways of teaching and assessing soc tech units will be immensely interesting and rewarding.

I ought to mention too that I have now a small grant to help develop some of the ideas that will be used on the Soc Tech course.