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3D Facebook: coming to you via Vivaty

19 August, 2008 – 9:27 am

I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the program ExitReality that turns 2D websites into 3D experiences. I still haven’t managed to get it to work, but my colleague KerryJ has done a bit of a vid of it, if you want to take a look. Since then I’ve been looking around at other kinds […]

By Jen | Also posted in Educationau, innovation, 3D web, Facebook | Comments (3)

Continuous partial attention

12 March, 2008 – 8:55 am

Anyone who has young children understands the concept of ‘continuous partial attention’. While cooking, writing the great Australian novel, preparing lectures, driving, marking homework or socialising, one part of a parent’s brain is still attending to the location, activities, noise (or lack of it) of their various spawns of Satan .
This concept of ‘continuous […]

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Prensky wrong? ‘Digital natives’ not as native as we thought

12 February, 2008 – 10:57 am

Since the term ‘digital natives’ was coined by Mark Prensky in 2001 I’ve put down my mobile phone fumbling and blankness when faced by ‘twittering‘ and ‘twining‘ to the fact that I’m on the cusp of Gen X and boomer generations and have had to learn my technology skills rather than having grown up with them. But […]

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