Australia is slowly waking up to a little publicised ALP policy about “cleaning up the internet to protect our children”. Once again it seems to be a case of apply the most ineffective and intrusive means possible. No-one is saying that we don’t want kids to be safe. The overly simplistic gainsaying of our new […]
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Announcing…. from various members of Ausslers…. “Discover Your Second Life” The Second Life Discovery Day 2007 Introduction The hype surrounding the multi-user virtual environment Second Life has mostly focussed on its negative aspects, which has limited the support for individuals and groups interested in exploring the research, education and business potentials of this exciting new […]
Sitting here at the Duxton in Perth while Marc Prensky engages us with his ideas on the “New Paradigm”. Predicated on the notion that the majority of approaches to current education are not created with the modern learner in mind, these assumptions and assertions filter through: Digital Natives – grew up in the digital world […]
Well, I’m back in Perth after delivering my keynote at the Drama Australia “Turning the Tides” conference. I was presenting on Monday morning and was first up – there were quite a few latecomers as the conference dinner was held on the Sunday evening. My topic was This drama is pwned: 1337 drama – a […]
There is quite a flurry of discussion on US bloggging and eductaion sites about the passing of the DOPA – Deleting Online Predators Act. I suspect it is a case of well-intentioned ignoramuses making policy that throws the baby out with the bath water. We all know the benefits of engaging students through online interaction. […]
As the Digital Chalkie team were completing the second in their series on blogging (sorry to have been unable to participate) some of my colleagues at QUT have just released a book on the topic… Uses of Blogs, an anthology of scholarly essays edited by Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs, is now officially available. Axel […]
Digital Learning India 2006 23-25 August,2006 Hotel Taj Palace New Delhi, India http://www.digitalLEARNING.in/DLindia Dear Members, The Centre for Science, Development and Media Studies (www.csdms.in) is organizing a three day conference entitled ‘Digital Learning India 2006’ in conjunction with ‘egov India 2006’ and ‘Indian Telecentre Forum 2006’ to be held during 23-25 August, 2006 at Hotel […]
This is becoming quite an interest of mine over the past few months and has also taken centre stage as the focal theme of my online drama work. There are emerging more and more stories about griefing across the entire web – in games, virtual communities, online worlds… etc…. Mark Wallace over at 3pointD and […]
There are several really good books released over recent months that offer some insights in emerging trends and new phenomenon form online worlds. Â