18 December 2008 – 3:45 pm
An excellent op-ed piece from the bright and brilliant futurist Mark Pesce on the ABC site highlights the dangers of censorship and the futility of filtering. http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2447465.htm
If a pornographic cartoon with The Simpsons cartoon characters in it is deemed child porn and passing on a link to a publicly available video of a baby being […]
18 December 2008 – 10:03 am
It’s not often that a browser security issue makes the mainstream media, so when it does — it’s worth spreading the word.
If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, the folks from Redmond consider the risk to be a maximum severity rating of critical — so you should down tools ASAP to download and install this […]
11 December 2008 – 2:08 pm
The National Curriculum Board has made its curriculum framing papers for English, Maths, Science and History as well as the overarching paper “The Shape of the National Curriculum” available on its web site:http://www.ncb.org.au/our_work/preparing_for_2009.html.
“The Shape of the National Curriculum” paper is said to contain the answers to the questions posed to the National Curriculum Development paper […]
4 December 2008 – 5:12 pm
If you follow me on Twitter or subscribe to my blog, you’d know what the theme of my week has been — video, video, video. I haven’t done this much in video since I worked in broadcast news!
I’ve taken some time to make improvements to my techniques, to try new formats/codecs and new screen […]
3 December 2008 – 8:14 pm
Normally I save the nuts and bolts stuff for my http://kerryj.com blog, but I’ve been bubbling over about this to colleagues so I’ll post it here instead.
I’m a big believer in spreading content around the web — so will continue to nag everyone in my organisation to post videos to edna Groups, YouTube, TeacherTube, Flickr, […]
3 December 2008 – 10:22 am
There are a lot of buts to kick when it comes to getting started with online collaboration.
But what if my boss wants to follow me on Twitter or Facebook?
But blogs and other networking tools are blocked at my school/organisation/government department.
But I don’t have time/technical skills/writing skills/audio skills/video skills.
But my staff will just waste time talking […]
2 December 2008 – 1:10 pm
Yay for the new US President-elect’s web site advisory team! And an onya to the New Media Consortium here in Australia. Both are using Creative Commons licensing to de-mystify the uses to which the materials they produce can be used by the public.
The NMC’s newly released Australia-New Zealand regional version of the Horizon Report […]
