Several people in the past few weeks have asked me about whether or not virtual worlds not classified by ACMA and/or Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games (MMOs, MMPORGs, MMOPRGs) like World of Warcraft would be banned under the new filtering regime currently being tested by the government relating to games classification and online games.
I’ll admit […]
131 million accounts and 12.1 million unique visits per month make Habbo Hotel the largest immersive environment on the planet. It doesn’t have the best graphics. It doesn’t allow for a large degree of avatar customisation or control over the environment. There are games one can play in parts of the site, but mostly there’s […]
Why do so many employers and educators cling to the belief that daily commutes to homogeneous environments with dress codes and dictated hardware and software are a prerequisite for productive work and effective learning?
People for whom technology is truly ubiquitous make no distinction between online friends and offline friends because they know that their online […]
Finding freely available content to use can be quite daunting for educators and self-publishers. While initiatives like Creative Commons and web sites with great information like SmartCopying look to de-mystify what content is available to use, many educators are still struggling.
I was looking for a photo myself when I can across an online marketer […]
The scheduled outage for this Saturday, 18 April has been canceled.
Groups, Lists, the edna repository and resources search and me.edu.au will be up and at your disposal.
From 8am to noon ACST this Saturday, all of edna’s services will be offline.
This includes:
edna Lists - both the web site and the service
edna Groups
edna URL service
OzProjects
me.edu.au
As there will probably be preparations made in advance of the outage — it might mean that services will be unavailable before this 8am Saturday. My advice would be […]
Copyright and the wheres, whens and hows of it all can be a minefield for both educators and learners. Allow a student to use something under NEALS - and it cannot be displayed on the internet. Create a video and use the wrong music — and have it pulled or edited.
Creative Commons offers […]
It’s been an amazing week for Australia in terms of the debate on filtering, censorship and internet safety.
Before you read on, please note that any opinions expressed in this post are (as always) mine as an individual — they do not necessarily reflect those of Education.au its management, stakeholders or staff.
It came to light that […]
Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are putting out a serious challenge to subject matter experts, designers, documentary film makers, screenwriters, web developers and game programmers to produce a “serious game”.
The reason? “Games provide a powerful opportunity to communicate with a broad,contemporary audience.”
At the first cut, they are looking for game ideas that address […]
20 February 2009 – 11:53 am
The more I learn, the more I’m convinced that dividing digital natives and immigrants up along birth year lines gives educators a false sense that their students are more or less tech savvy than they might actually be.
Photo: threesixtyfive - day 244 by Sybren A. Stüvel. CC (by) (nc) (nd)
This was highlighted for me recently […]
