2 September, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Education.au, Australia’s national ICT agency owned by all Australia’s ministers of education and training, today formally announced the establishment of its Immersive Learning Unit. Read more here.
1 September, 2008 – 9:40 am
The latest issue of the Journal of Online Education provides a couple of useful articles summarising some of the key issues related to 21st century teaching and learning and introduced me to the concept of adaptational neuroplasty - which seems to suggest that a lifetime of interaction with new technologies is changing the biology of […]
29 August, 2008 – 1:45 pm
education.au, in a project funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, has recently had the opportunity to develop a proof of concept (POC) around the use of short educational videos - that is, a kind of YouTube service for education - through the edna project. The edna.tv proof of concept […]
25 August, 2008 – 9:00 am
The submissions to the Review of the Higher Education Sector are now available at the DEEWR website. Education.au made a submission which focused on the importance of information and communications technology as an enabler for the education sector. You can read education.au’s submission here. Let’s hope that the outcomes of the Review of […]
25 August, 2008 – 8:48 am
A couple of things worth mentioning around learning spaces - MCEETYA recently released a Learning Spaces Framework, and the Catholic Education sector are undertaking their own experiment with learning spaces - moving kids out of traditional classrooms into larger, more flexible spaces with a focus on collaborative learning. A summary of some of the learning […]
19 August, 2008 – 10:53 am
This paper (Java, Song, Finin and Tseng “Why we Twitter: Understanding Microblogging Usage and Communities”) explores microblogging - that is, the short sweet posts we make through services like Twitter. I have frequently wondered about the use of these services, tho through the Facebook status updates I’ve found that there’s something engaging in my capacity […]
18 August, 2008 – 1:14 pm
I just made that up - the term TWEB, and given that new ICT terms are created every second, I might just as well - but, seriously, soon we’re going to have to have a term to describe media that sews up the TV/web seam.
Advertisers already complain that they can’t reach the teen market through […]
SmallWorlds is a cute browser-based 3-D world environment. You can design your avatar (big heads and small bodies), choose some clothes, and create a pet to be with you in your virtual world. You can furnish a room after undertaking a range of tasks which collect points that you can spend in one of the […]
Sounds like a cool idea. Forget downloading 50 megabytes from Second Life so that you can be in a 3-D world. ExitReality enables any ordinary HTML website to become a 3-D experience.
I can’t get it to work yet, but I’m trying, because it seems like such a good idea.
