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 […]
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 […]
18 February 2009 – 9:04 am
In choosing just the right texts to support learners, have you ever taken price tag into consideration? And, do you find that you have to recommend two or three in order to cover all that you’d like?
Consider some options from outside traditional publishing: flatworld knowledge and Connexions.
flatworld
knowledge
provides free online textbooks for tertiary students, and then […]
8 February 2009 – 1:32 pm
In recent weeks fires in NSW and Victoria and flooding up in Queensland have devasted entire communities. The footage on television is horrendous, but that’s nothing compared to the very real suffering of the people involved.
People have been using social networking tools such as Twitter to enquire about and pass on information about relatives […]
28 January 2009 – 1:19 pm
Educator? Entrepreneur? Parent? User of technology? Think you or your family and friends might ever use technology?
The digital economy is and will continue to affect every aspect of our lives from education, finance, commerce, crime prevention, healthcare and communications through to arts, culture and entertainment.
The government has gone through a series of workshops and held […]
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 […]
25 November 2008 – 10:27 am
Drinking from the firehose — that’s how some people equate what it’s like to try to extract useful information from the tsunami of data that flows through the internet and our inboxes every day.
By building a professional/personal learning environment and network — you can channel the flow and build a support team of friends, colleagues […]
30 October 2008 – 7:07 am
Nortel, a Canadian Telecom company, is developing a project that they feel brings a needed dose of reality to virtual worlds and 3D chat environments. They’re working on it through a rapid prototype development cycle via a project they’ve dubbed Project Chainsaw (not surprising for Canadians I guess). ; )
Photo Copyright Nortel - Project Chainsaw […]
