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 […]
Education.au recently hosted a national e-portfolio symposium. The recommendations that emerged from the discussion are based around four strands:
1. Ownership and purpose: In this discussion, participants were asked to consider the issue of e-portfolio ownership, and the responsibility for overall authorship, access, use and currency;
2. Interoperability: This discussion covered the issue of building an e-portfolio […]
In the 17th century Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”.
In 2008, Descartes would say: “I ‘Facebook‘ therefore I am”.
The problem is that ‘I am’ in all sorts of places and I’m feeling a bit Sybil.
There’s my Facebook, which is a mix of offline friends, online friends and work colleagues. I have a pipl profile, […]
I have every letter that I have ever received. True. They live in a few big plastic storage containers under my bed - written on paper, by hand, or on typewriter. A few typed on a word processor and printed out and sent via snail mail. Letters from the time that Susan Campbell moved away […]
27 September, 2007 – 9:09 am
Preservation and archiving of digital resources is a major challenge for all organisations. The University College London and the British Library have undertaken some interesting research on the cost of preserving particular kinds of digital resources in a project called LIFE. The project has formulated a way of calculating the costs of the digital lifecycle […]
17 September, 2007 – 3:13 pm
Excellent paper from Yoni Ryan at the University of Canberra about the implications for the university sector educating Generation Y amidst Ys ubiquitous use of social networking sites and tools. Thoughtful and thought provoking.
7 February, 2007 – 7:06 pm
I’m a bit of a fan of social networking services - the good ones are easy to use, useful and/or fun. From the desk at home they make you feel like you are part of the world community, and they enable you to keep in touch with friends and family in new ways. I’m also […]
14 December, 2006 – 7:13 pm
Over the past several months I have been working on a project where a focus has been on investigating user needs in order to build a system that people from the education sector will use.
Obviously knowing what your users think they want is important. But do users really know what they want? If a user […]
1 November, 2006 – 3:09 pm
In a recent post about the future of the Internet I suggested that those who were interviewed for a Pew Internet survey had not gone far enough in thinking about the impact of technology on our possible future.
Reading Robert Cailliau’s paper ‘Humans will not survive the Century’ from the education.au Global Summit has sent shivers […]
17 October, 2006 – 3:51 pm
Fortune telling is big business - whether it’s tarot, tea leaves or a tingling feeling in your toes. An American firm, Pew Internet, is trying to do just that in predicting the future of the internet in 2020. They conducted a non-random sample of 742 people and asked them to respond to a range of scenarios and […]
