Comments on: Embracing a loss of control http://technosavvy.org/2007/11/14/embracing-a-loss-of-control/ Great teaching and learning with technology Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:58:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tim http://technosavvy.org/2007/11/14/embracing-a-loss-of-control/comment-page-1/#comment-45565 Tim Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:20:50 +0000 http://technosavvy.org/2007/11/14/embracing-a-loss-of-control/#comment-45565 Our IT department want us to think that they're flexible and willing but they have two tactics to avoid all that and keep control. One is to issue long white papers full of geek speak which put so many constraints on anything we want to do, it becomes too much trouble for most people. Their assessment of Skype (after almost a year of asking) is the most recent example. Or they go out and buy a product which they tell us is just as good as whatever it is we wanted to use and almost always isn't. The blogs and wikis module for Blackboard is their latest in that area. That piece actually does something I didn't could be done: make BB even clunkier. Thanks for the opportunity to vent. :-) Our IT department want us to think that they’re flexible and willing but they have two tactics to avoid all that and keep control. One is to issue long white papers full of geek speak which put so many constraints on anything we want to do, it becomes too much trouble for most people. Their assessment of Skype (after almost a year of asking) is the most recent example.

Or they go out and buy a product which they tell us is just as good as whatever it is we wanted to use and almost always isn’t. The blogs and wikis module for Blackboard is their latest in that area. That piece actually does something I didn’t could be done: make BB even clunkier.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent. :-)

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