Choosing privacy in a digital world

Recently in the US there was the first-ever Choose Privacy Week.  The focus of the week was to inform Americans about their rights to privacy in a digital age. With Facebook recently in the news because of privacy concerns it was a timely campaign. Below is an interesting video made by American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. Although though [...]

Internet filtering – Censordyne: the GetUp campaign

If you have been reading this blog you would have read posts (esp Dec 2008) about the many things wrong with, and ineffectiveness of, blanket filtering plan that the Australian Commonwealth Government is undertaking. If you are also concerned about our Commonwealth Government’s Internet Censorship plan, worried that things have gone too quiet and opposition case is not being [...]

Navify – Searching Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube

My colleague Tania found this tool via the Free technology for teachers blog. I had seen Nibipedia, but Navify was a new tool for me to look at. It is a mash-up of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. We all know that many of our students use Wikipedia,which may be developing into the world’s most extensive encyclopedias, as people continue to build on [...]

On-line technology in schools.

The internet. We have come a long way in a relatively short time. Our students can’t remember a time without the it. Here is a short documentary on its development. “History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet. The documentary was found via the Internet, made using tools [...]

Don Tapscott: more on growing up digital

This is a short interview of author Don Tapscott (Grown Up Digital) and family talking about growing up in the digital world. Interesting that when discussing multi-tasking. He describes the difference between the young and those older.  The Read/Write web also posted something about the topic of Multi-tasking, The Older You Are, the Better You Multi-Task [...]