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Category Archives: Howard Rheingold


Bloggers Unite for Human Rights, May 15

May 14, 2008 – 2:32 pm

Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, blogs | Comments (0)

Howard Rheingold on Collaboration

February 18, 2008 – 9:54 am

My TED newsletter on Friday brought with it a link to the latest offering in talks on its theme The Rise of Collaboration. Howard Rheingold talks about new collaboration, participatory media and collective action — how Wikipedia, and other projects, are really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group. He […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, networking, collaboration | Comments (0)

Does the technology make a difference?

October 4, 2007 – 12:46 pm

This week cyber pioneer Howard Rheingold was the keynote speaker for education.au’s final seminar for 2007 whihc focussed on the development of virtual communities. Podcasts and presentations will be added to the educationau seminar site as they become available.
Currently available on the site

Howard’s keynote presentation
Slides and Speech notes from David Cummins

Howard Rheingold was interviewed […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, eduausem2007, virtual environments | Comments (0)

Digital Divide - change of focus

September 12, 2007 – 11:22 am

One of the ideas that crossed my mind yesterday as I was writing my blog about the Creating and Connecting report, was that it focussed on online students and parents. Nowhere did I see an estimate of the %age of the population who might not have any online access.
It was also ‘telling’ (in a quirky […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, eduausem2007, web 2.0, digital divide | Comments (0)