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 […]
Gary Hayes’ trememndous little movie about the current state of virtual worlds PERSONALIZE MEDIA» Last Post Social Media Virtual Worlds » 2008 Metaverse Tour Video: The Social Virtual World’s A Stage Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: virtualworlds, second life, kaneva, gary hayes
If you only read one book about virtual worlds, read Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life. If you are only going to read two, read Tom Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life.Overall, Coming of Age in Second Life (CASL) represents cutting edge anthropology at its best — hip, smart, theoretically sophisticated, and with its head […]
Well, it seems the little blurb and offhand comment has taken on a life of its own. Edupunk has take on a life of its own. Some more articles on the topic… What’s this about Edupunk? EduPunk – Tech or Mindset? EduPunk? Please tell me this is the start and not the end
Image via Wikipedia I came across this quote from Jello Biafra during my reading today and it seemed to resonate with so many other aspects of my working life that I wanted to give it a bit of currency while I think about all the implications… I think also that it could be a […]
The program asked students to produce and send us three- to seven-minute original videos based on the theme “How Technology Helps Me Learn,” illustrating how their schools are employing technology to advance learning. We received scores of entries from schools across the United States–and even one from Japan.We’ve pared down these responses to the three […]
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 […]
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can’t do […]