Education.au has just released another of its reports produced for the Strategic ICT Advisory Service it’s providing to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
The Annual Report on Emerging Technologies: Planning for Change report is the culmination of SICTAS’ investigative research program. It incorporates and extends the recommendations made […]
Twitter, one of the world’s fastest growing social networking/microblogging services, gets some good press and some bad press. It’s a timewaster, pointless, full of mundane 140 character tweets about what people had for breakfast, say some. Personally I love it. I’ve posted before about Twitter and now I’m totally completely in thrall (well at least […]
I can’t let pass without comment the fact that the leader of the United States of America - one of the largest of the world economies, the so-called ‘leader of the free world’, has had to fight hard to keep using his Blackberry. It came as an extraordinary revelation to me that the incumbent US […]
This series of videos, from small US company Common Craft, are a quick (most less than three minutes), appealing and straightforward introduction to a number of popular Web2.0 tools including social networking, social bookmarking, podcasting, blogs, microblogging and wikis. For those trying understand Web2.0 tools and don’t ‘get it’ or want to ‘get it’ but […]
A rivetting read from the New York Times magazine about shifts in behaviour and attitudes to privacy, identity and social relationships caused by the use of social software such as Facebook and Twitter - particularly focusing on microblogging and status updates. Like a number of those quoted in the story, I used to wonder why […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
