[michèle 2]

[quote=clivehawkins]
My question is this: If you suddenly lost access to the internet, how difficult would your job become, and how long do you think it wouild take for you to get used to the 'old way' of getting \ preparing materials?

Tha same applied for cars. Would we be able to get rid of cars and use carts drawn by horses?
I didn't have the internet 5 years ago so I used to make everything from drawings ( even if I'm useless at drawing and my students laughed at me!!) to other teaching materials.
Now with access to the internet and any kinds of teaching materials my life has changed a lot. I think it has really made teachers and students' life easier.
The internet is a fantastic tool!

[susan53]

[quote=michèle 2]

Quote clivehawkins

Tha same applied for cars. Would we be able to get rid of cars and use carts drawn by horses?

We decided about five years ago to get rid of our car, for various reasons, including environmental ones. Everyone here (like everywhere?) moans like crazy about public transport, but I really don't miss the car at all. I agree that if you live in the depths of the country it's different (but even then there's no reason why you can't park on the outskirts and switch), but in a town like Milan there's no problem - though tell that to the other 2 million Milanese. I also use my bike as much as possible - but that can be hairy. Because, of course, of the cars.

As a horse-lover I'd love to have a horse and cart as my principal form of transport. No problem at all!

[clivehawkins]

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We decided about five years ago to get rid of our car, for various reasons, including environmental ones.

I'm not sure I could completely get rid of the car, although I do find myself using it less and less (mainly because I'm trying to work exclusively in the same town).

I have taken Canale 5 and Rete 4 off my TV though! :-)
I thought that would be hard to get used to but I miss it not one jot! I'm gradualy trying to wean myself off TV completely. We'll have to wait and see if I manage it.

I think this is because I'm using the net more and more for entertainment. I'm enjoying many of the comedy podcasts available. Which takes us nicely back to the original point of how the net is becoming more important in our lives.

Another example of being lost without it:

This week I had to find a song for the kids related to flowers \ gardens for the school play. It had to be long enough to warrant being included but not too short so the parents blink and miss it. The language had to be simple enough for them to learn in quite a short time but not too banal or repetitive. Now, without the net how on earth would I have gone about finding something?

(By the way, I chose 'The gardener plants the seeds' sung to the tune of the Farmer's in the Dell)

Now I've got my fingers crossed that it gores better than the Christmas fiasco

[susan53]

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I have taken Canale 5 and Rete 4 off my TV though! :-)

Is this a political statement? Why the exception for Italia 1? (For those of you not in Italy, they're all owned by our ex-leader Berlusconi. If you can't quite place him, he usually looks like this : )