In the book “Disrupting Class” - an exploration of what disruptive innovation is and how it could change education - lead author Clayton Christensen (along with co-authors Michael Horn and Curtis Johnson) argues that in education as in business, innovation initially starts out competing against non-consumption. Or,in other words, it’s better than doing nothing.
So, […]
25 February 2010 – 3:27 pm
This is just a quick post on my initial experiments with the new Second Life Viewer 2 -
My initial reaction is gushy — love the interface (clean, techy, uncluttered), love the graphics, and LOOOVE the ability to share media. Video play from sites like YouTube allow you to go full screen or to play in […]
22 January 2010 – 2:03 pm
In building our OpenSim estate on Reaction Grid, I needed a virtual laptop for a few of the activities there. As a government owned agency, Education.au needs to model good digital citizenship - so photographing one of my own laptops was out of the question due to issues of Intellectual Property.
So I contacted several […]
11 January 2010 – 1:58 pm
I’ve had numerous people ask if I’d seen an article in PCPRO called “Whatever happened to Second Life?” in which the author shares his experience of Second Life of being a ghost town at best and a porn haven at worst. If the piece had merely been about the author’s experience and he’d asked for […]
15 December 2009 – 10:08 am
I am looking for leads on clothing and hair creators/designers for Education.au’s Open Sim project. I am in need of a range of clothing for women including autumn and summer casual, neat/business casual, business, food service and construction site and for men autumn and summer casual, neat/business casual, food service and construction site. […]
12 December 2009 – 1:35 am
Thank you to those of you who nominated me for an Edublogs Award (affectionately known as an Eddie) for best audio, for the work I do in covering conferences and live events! It was a lovely surprise.
The Edublogs Awards recognise contributions to education over an array of online tools including blogs, video, audio and Twitter […]
11 December 2009 – 10:33 am
Is broadband a game changer for how we use technology? How about how we conduct business, learn, relate to government, find and use information, live our lives? And what risks are inherent in a national broadband initiative?
These were some of the many issues tackled in yesterday’s national consultation on the National Broadband Network. There was […]
9 December 2009 – 2:47 pm
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy want to hear from you and have set up a Google Forum ready and waiting for your input on how we could best use a National Broadband Network.
There are 5 categories and you are welcome to submit ideas (240 characters long) to each as well as […]
8 December 2009 – 10:52 am
In creating assets for Education.au’s virtual world activities, copyright is always front of mind for me. Over the years, any virtual world texture that has been released with open permissions has been recycled and re-used so often that it’s almost impossible to know where it originated and who owns the copyright. Are patterns in rugs […]
20 November 2009 – 11:57 am
The internet has cracked the 1 billion mark — but what’s coming next dwarfs all that we’ve achieved and been able to wrap our heads around to date. How can we possibly prepare for a future where we need to think about connecting (and managing, or not) trillions of smart devices? This simple video is […]
