Congress Looks To Halt MySpace In Schools, Libraries 05.12.2006 9:03 AM EDT New bill would ban anyone under 18 from accessing social networking sites. from MTV News The article discusses a new bill being tabled in the US that seeks to limit access to onlone social networks by minors. It certainly seems like a knee-jerk […]
Microsoft have recently released an add-in to their Office suite that allows for easy integration of Creative Commons licensing. This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint, or Microsoft Office Excel. With a Creative Commons license, authors […]
I’ve just been dabbling with an interesting little tool. Not entirely sure of the possibilities yet beyond the obvious social play. But it does look interesting and is incredibly easy to use. Not sure how it stacks up against podcasting – but give it time. A new step in the great ocean of Social Networking. […]
A great little resource comes from Google Video. A documentary history of video games from Atari to Nintendo… extrapolate from there…
A liitle personal gossip. Last year at a conference in Melbourne I met a professor from the Instructional Design section of a major US university. Yesterday I got an email asking if I’m interested in a temporary teaching position. No real news yet, but I was just so damn chuffed I had to share!!
At a CREATEC seminar yesterday Janette Hill from University of Georgia presented a short session about community building in online learning environments. Some important insights for my own investigations into shifting Process Drama into online contexts. Janette introduced Turkle’s suggestion of the self as “sum of distributed presences” and I found the notion very similar to Goffman’s […]
Aula 2006 is an event about the direction of society, culture and technology. The theme Movement points to mobile 2.0 (mobility meets web 2.0), the overlapping of the physical and the virtual, and the social movement-like nature of new technologies. On a personal level, movement is about not staying still but taking action to shape […]
Turbulence blog reports: New Scientist reveals that the Pentagon’s NSA in the form of ARDA (Advanced Research Development Activity) are interested in the information people post about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and are funding research into it’s mass harvesting. The W3C WWW2006 conference accepted a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, […]
There is an article in eSchoolNews today about “safe” social networking that spends a lot of time looking at the usual concerns expressed about kids in schools using these sorts fo environments… Amid rising concerns over popular social networking sites, a new crop of “safe” sites is currently emerging. These “safe” sites hope to limit […]
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