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How do you deal with a world that is messy? danah boyd at RMIT.
I had the privilege this afternoon to listen to danah boyd * deliver a talk entitled, ‘Privacy in Networked Publics’, at RMIT. danah is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New … Continue reading
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Sometimes, Twitter raises my stress levels
One thing I’ve noticed during this holiday break, is that increased access to Twitter is raising my stress levels. Why, I hear you asking? During the working week, my exposure to Twitter is infrequent. I read and share when I … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
I’ve seen some Facebook in real life videos before, but this one tickles my funny bone. (Excuse some of the language within it – I try to steer away from videos that contain course language, but a couple of words … Continue reading
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10 minutes well spent
If you ever find yourself a spare ten minutes or so, you should do yourself a favour and check out the TED: Ideas worth spreading site. I do so on a regular basis, most often when I’m in bed browsing … Continue reading
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Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites
On Friday, I attended the launch of a final report from the Learning with New Media research group who are from Monash University’s Faculty of Education. Their report is the title of this post, and it includes some important recommendations … Continue reading
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Revisiting the Digital Footprint message
Today, I delivered a presentation to our Year 11 students about how they conduct themselves in online spaces, to ensure their safety and to cultivate a positive digital footprint. I delivered a similar presentation to this same cohort in May … Continue reading
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Updated visual representation of Online Communities from xkcd
In the Northern Spring of 2007, Randall Munroe from xkcd created the following map to represent the real estate value of online communities; Interestingly, they created a new one in October of this year that looks like this; You can … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
Both of this week’s videos were sourced by my Year 9 students today. Some were completing an assessment task, so I set the remaining few (we had a lot of students out today as our yearly camp program begins) to … Continue reading
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What’s in a name?
The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Marshall McLuhan Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently made a some very interesting comments while being interviewed by Holman W Jenkins from the Wall Street Journal; … Continue reading
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School’s out Friday
One of the things I have to do this weekend is prepare a presentation for our Year 12 students about how they nurture their social resume. It’s pretty important stuff for those 17 and 18 year olds. (Hopefully they’ll see … Continue reading
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