Learning with the Fang

As I reported last week, Melbourne school student Tom Wood was recognised for his efforts in getting people to think about internet safety (rather than expect technology to make it go away).  Yesterday Jeff and Dave from EdTechTalk had a chat with Tom on their weekly podcast.  I was interested to learn that Tom’s work [...]

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I just had an amazing experience that history will show to be significant one day.  I contributed the words ‘Jennifer wept.‘ to (yet another) online story being written by (yet another) bunch of interesting people.
My feeling is that something significant is going on with this one – an early experience of future literacies and connectivism [...]

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Just attended the annual EduBlog awards in SecondLife – hats off to all concerned for having a go at this perilous experiment.  There were lots of issues, but that is the spirit of the Edublog community in general and the EdTechTalk dudes in particular.
I could not logon to the event because the region was full.  [...]

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Dr Paul Dalby and I will be running a Web2.0 bootcamp in Adelaide on Friday December 14th, 2007.  If you have been to one of my talks and are interested in finding out more and getting started then come along.  Details from Paul’s e/maiul
Following your interest in the Web 2.0 training sessions, Mike Seyfang and [...]

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Prof. Peter Cullen recently delivered the Schultz oration. Listening to the podcast of that talk really got me thinking:

I should think before launching into ‘those mongrels upstream are wasting our water’ conversations that seem to pop up quite frequently (maybe we should think about taking the high ground of fixing issues in our own [...]

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