Archive for November, 2008

09:50 @jokay Yep – I’m there as well – can’t get inworld here at uni just yet – IT are preparing my new machine as I speak! #

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I’ve just joined another Wetpaint site that seems to offer some interesting considerations of required shifts in communication strategies for educational institutions.  IN terms of communication, what can schools, teachers, administrators learn from students.  While the focus seems to be upon K-12 contexts at this stage, based on recent exprrience I think there is plenty [...]

22:18 listening to sounds of thunder… frogs are silent… lightning cracks over cane fields…. #

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Howard Rheingold seems to have become more visible again in my part of the web… he’s popping up on Twitter and has penned some new material – the following excerpt from an essay entitled Participative Pedagogy for a Literacy of Literacies rang a few bells for me and got me wondering about how much teachers [...]

This week I have some more homework…
Please share here your stories about your first hours if life in Second Life. Reflect on your experience: How would you describe your first steps? What were the technical issues, if any? What did you feel about the avatar you chose? What was orientation island like? Could you find [...]

19:08 www.keepyourfilteroffourinternet.com/ – get your badge today! #
19:12 Australians Against Internet Censorship tinyurl.com/5sj44y via www.diigo.com/~kimbowa #

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New job… new world

3, Nov 2008

Well, what a turn up for the books.  I started in my new job today.  Who would have thought that this rather curmudgeonly drama teacher would be turning his had to Instructional Design?
Well, I started today at Curtin University…
Went through the usual first day rituals of finding where to park (and getting a parking ticket!), [...]

12:45 @christydena after working in several schools and universities… believe me they do… with monotonous regularity! #
12:51 anyone else at The Whtlam’s gig last night? They were so relaxed… and Tim was disregarding protocol… Jak was sweating the uncertainty!! #
13:58 Sean the Blogonaut on why filtering isn’t the answer. tinyurl.com/6qgnd9 via www.diigo.com/~kimbowa #

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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 experience for Australian families [...]

07:41 @heyjudeonline OK Jude… Hail the Librarians, for they commnad knowledge…! Have fun guys! #
09:01 time for coffee… and a newspaper.. first cahnce in weeks! #

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