Tribolum wrote that in reference to Microsoft's attempts to wow the public with Vista.
The problem?
Microsoft's insistence on triumphing features, rather than the possibilities the operating system enables. This is doubly so as "operating systems aren’t very exciting".
I have to agree with Tribolum.
Similarly, a blog platform isn't too sexy either. And neither is IVLE, the university's learning management system. What tribolum said of how Vista was promoted could easily have been said about how IVLE, Module Blogs and many other IT-in-teaching innovations are promoted in NUS.
Since I'm not part of the solution, I must be part of the problem.
So, in future posts, I will try to let you know what you can do with the Module Blogs - the opportunities which you can seize. Likewise, IVLE. It's going to undergo a major upgrade soon, one in which the underlying structure has been changed tremendously. I have to remind myself that that's not sexy. What IVLE can do for you is sexy.
And as far as possible, I'll try to show, not tell.