KerryJ’s Neotenous Tech

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Want free web conferencing? Tell us about it! - Mon, 03 Nov 2008
Owners of edna Groups and creators of OzProjects projects now have free access to the web conferencing tool Live Classroom and the edna team is offering free PD sessions. Interested? Just complete an 8-question survey letting us know when and how you’d like to receive your training. The survey is located in the Live Classroom and Voice [...]

Nortel takes a Chainsaw to virtual reality - Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Nortel, a Canadian Telecom company, is developing a project that they feel brings a needed dose of reality to virtual worlds and 3D chat environments.  They’re working on it through a rapid prototype development cycle via a project they’ve dubbed Project Chainsaw (not surprising for Canadians I guess). ; ) Photo Copyright Nortel - Project Chainsaw [...]

Rocketon - takes avatars and chat everywhere you go on the web - Thu, 23 Oct 2008
In researching a presentation on virtual worlds I’ll be giving at EDayz in a few weeks, I came across a tweet about a blog post from Gary Hayes called Inching Towards the live Web 3.0 - Layered Social Virtual Worlds. In the article, he demos some avatars (virtual representatations of real people) that inhabit not a virtual [...]

Online activism to raise awareness of depression - Mon, 06 Oct 2008
This Friday 10 October, Australian online social networkers will be going blue for Beyond Blue Day, to raise awareness of anxiety and depression disorders as part of Beyond Blue’s ADA awareness month. To get involved, you can change the image you use on your favorite online sites — either by creating your own or getting one [...]

The State Library of NSW - my newest Flickr Contact - Sun, 05 Oct 2008
In January I blogged about Flickr Commons — a program whereby Flickr invites cultural institutions to share their library of photos and invite the public to tag them. Now, the State Library of NSW is the first Australian library to join in. The curators have selected one hundred photos that they feel capture “quirky and momentous historical [...]

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Your 2009 Wishlist - Wed, 12 Nov 2008
Whom do you think are the people creating game-changing technologies, policies and/or methodologies that will benefit learners and educators across sectors and around the world? Who are the people behind the online tools or technologies you use to make your teaching and learning journey richer and more exciting? What organisation/institution/association/authority is getting the sorts of outcomes you want and has people whose brains you want to pick? Get your wish list in to us by Friday, 28 November — either by leaving a comment on this blog post, or sending an email to: gputland@educationau.edu.au

Wikimedia Commons - Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Creative Commons content

Content filtering with NO Opt Out and government deciding what is in - Thu, 30 Oct 2008
A blog post synthesing a collection of resources relating to the Rudd governments proposal to filter internet content at the ISP level.

Interactive Australia report reignites games ratings debate | NEWS.com.au - Wed, 29 Oct 2008
It found the average age of Australian gamers is now 30 – up from the previous study's 28 – challenging the stereotype of video games as a kid's medium. This finding could have repercussions for Australia's classifications system, which does not have an adult rating for games, as the highest possible classification is MA15+. "With the average age of gamers being 30, it makes no sense to censor games to a point where they are only appropriate for a 15 year old. "Such censorship would not be acceptable in television, at the cinema or in print, so why apply it unfairly to another entertainment medium?"

Nortel takes a Chainsaw to virtual reality - Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Nortel, a Canadian Telecom company, is developing a project that they feel brings a needed dose of reality to virtual worlds and 3D chat environments. They’re working on it through a rapid prototype development cycle via a project they’ve dubbed Project Chainsaw (not surprising for Canadians I guess). ; ) It's still in beta.

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Second Life how to: Instant messaging to get a teleport - Wed, 19 Nov 2008

Sometimes you just lose your way in Second Life. If you've got an SL event that you can't find but have the name of the host's avatar -- this video demonstrates how you can contact that person in-world and get to the event.

Second Life: teleporting via notecard links and teleport disks - Wed, 19 Nov 2008

Why walk or fly when you can teleport? A quick tutorial on two different ways to access teleporting in Second Life. Part of a presentation for EDayz08 on virtual worlds.

Second Life: Turning night into day - Wed, 19 Nov 2008

There is no need to stumble around in the dark in Second Life - just a few clicks and you can turn on the sun anytime!

Tech Gods against me today - Fri, 12 Sep 2008

Just one of d'em days...

Blog post light - Sat, 16 Aug 2008

So many ideas for great blog posts - so little ambition. From a rant about the LOUD family living next door - to mulling over McD's new virtual space for kids and the joys of Twittering -- here's my blog post light.