KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

In Australia, most schools operate on a white list system when it comes to the web sites they can access. Educators have to apply for sites to be unblocked for classroom use and some sites are banned with no hope of unblocking them. The practitioners I’ve talked to are feeling frustrated - they’d [...]

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As I spend more time in Second Life, I look for interactive events to see how people are using this exciting new medium. So far, for me, it does a good job of bridging the tyranny of distance and providing networking opportunities.
However, I think replicating a real-world event online isn’t always the best use [...]

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I’ve blogged about this on my education.au blog  but wanted to add a few quick thoughts here.
The fact that the organisers of the Edublog awards recognised the Australian teen who broke through an $84 million government porn filter was brilliant! That 16 year old Tom Wood is the one [...]

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Alrighty - it’s about a day and a bit to go until our triple header of live event, Second Life event and Live Classroom event to celebrate edna’s 10th birthday. 
We’ve tried to make information available in as many places as possible -

Kerrie Smith has been blogging away on her company blog - http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/ksmith/2007/11/26/ednas-10th-birthday-1-sleep-away/
I’ve been blogging [...]

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I’ve created a Twitter channel for the edna 10th birthday celebrations.  The address is: http://twitter.com/edna10
The RSS feed subscription link is:  http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/10456232.rss
I’ve also created a Facebook event and two Facebook Groups (these by accident, I should have created events darn it)…

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