Image by cindiann via Flickr Image by cindiann via Flickr MIT makes research available on the web Mon, Mar 23, 2009 Esteemed school joins others in advocating open access to research as the price of journals rises By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor In smaller, less confident universities there still seems to be a misguided belief […]
Today I conducted a small tour of my research island, Godot, in Second Life. The visitors were all people involved with, or interested in, Psychodrama. As one of the virtual hosts for the event I would like to thank everyone who attended the session. It was nice to have people back on the island. Thanks […]
As an educator working to promote more effective, engaging and creative use of technology in teaching and learning I meet many people who are reluctant to modify their practices. This includes those who are fearful, those who are interested, those who have no interest and those who haven’t a clue. One of the common responses […]
Some other excellent material at these places: ISP-level content filtering won’t workThe ISP giants explain why it’s not a good idea. Brett Winterford and Julian Hill, ZDNet.com.au 30 October 2008 06:04 PM Tags: telstra, iinet, internode, filtering, isp, whitelist, say, hackett video feature Federal Government plans to introduce ISP-level filtering to provide a ‘safer’ internet […]
These Facebook groups should give you some indication of the perception of this misguided solution. No Australian Internet Censorship We Won’t Accept It – No To Mandatory Internet Censorship In Australia No Cleen Feed People against mandatory internet filters in Australia Rational Voters against heavy-handed internet filtering. Australian ISP filtering plan is stupid! Australians against […]
This video with Cory Doctorow is one of the lead awareness raising tools about a proposed (although it may already have passed) new legislation in Canada. Bill 61-C proposes quite a few significant change in Canadian Copyright law in response to changing social trends in the way people deal with such material. Rather than acknowledging […]
Image via Wikipedia Technology analyst Gartner have come up with a list of the 10 technologies it believes are most likely to change the way business is done between 2008 and 2012. Gartner’s top 10 disruptive technologies 2008-2012: 1. Multicore and hybrid processors. 2. Virtualisation and fabric computing. 3. Social networks and social software. 4. […]
The blogosphere seems to have embraced this term with a passion. It seems to have gained some currency towards the end of last week and is now a fully fledged meme on the loose. My conceptualisation is something like this: Teachers and learners busting out of the Access Control systems that schools and universities insist […]
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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