Posts Tagged ‘australia’

GetUp! – Save our Net

24, Dec 2008

As many will be aware, the Australian government is contemplating a draconian legislative act to intervene in the internet access of every Australian.  Those of you who’ve been following my research project in Second lIfe will be aware that I posed this as a fictional scenario in process drama activities over the past 3 years… [...]

Citizen Journalist vs Police

23, Dec 2008

Image via Wikipedia

A news story on Tech Wired Australia reports that an Australian man was threatened with mandatory arrest under anti-terrorism laws unless he surrendered his Blackberry mobile phone footage of police searching another man in public.
Who Watches The Watchers: Australian Threatened With Arrest Under Australian Anti-Terrorism Act For Being a Citizen Journalist
It poses [...]

Interesting developments in Australia for Second Life and Education

14, Jun 2008

We have an interesting emerging space for collaboration of those working in SL and with teens at http://secondclassroom.ning.com and Dean Groom brings a whole new twist to learning initiatives in SL – and is possibly the first school in Australia to fully blend SL learning into the mainstream curriculum. http://deangroom.wordpress.com/ These take place in TL [...]

Second Life in Australia

24, Oct 2007

A session presented by Sean Fitzgerald.


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