The Journal of Community Informatics – Community Networking and Public Benefits & Free internet as an agent of community transformation

A couple of very interesting articles that I haven’t had time to really get into yet but which I think, from first glance, might prove valuable to consider for anyone who’s thinking about social networking and communities: Community Networking and Public Benefits In general, healthy networks seem to result in improved community welfare i.e., they …

TILT TV – Teachers Improving Learning with Technology

This is a great find from someone who’s also getting stuck into edublogs.org and learnerblogs.org. Fundamentally TILT TV is a broadcast (or vidcast) of funky tools and teachers doing cool stuff with technology (sort of like edugadget just with moving pictures) From the site: The vidcast that is created by teachers for teachers. Do you …

Ketosis

Sometimes think that in terms of food, general bodily abuse, I operate a bit too much like a pendulum. Since Friday evening, for example, it’s basically been no alcohol, no sugar, no bread, no rice, no potatoes… essentially no sugars or carbs. Which apparently is sending me into ketosis. From which, ahem, I quote: Because …

No to IR Reforms

Spent some of this afternoon at a rally in Geelong (along with about a quarter of a million others Aus-wide) protesting against the obnoxious IR reforms that the Liberal (read opposite of ‘Liberal’ – conservative) party are pushing through with their majority in both houses. Hopefully this might work out well in the end as …

Student Podcasting

I’m very very happy that I’m able to spring Tama’s new blog (at edublogs.org: “I’ve been trying out tama.wordpress.com… I felt that edublogs was probably a better home for an eLearning blog anyway”) Not only because it’s great to be able to help out some familiar, um, faces… but also because of stuff like this …