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CAUTION: This post contains some very mixed up metaphors. Neowin: One might still ask, what is Web 2.0? It is something better described by marketing than by reality. Somebody (O’Reilly Media actually) decided that as of 2004, the internet had entered the second revolution where Google and other online mainstays replaced the original tools of the first [...] When it comes to music files, Bill Gates simply had this to say in summary; “People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.” Except, of course, if you live in New Zealand. The copyright/wrong bill is marching on towards becoming law. The trouble is that at the moment the mud is no less opaque than it was. Will we be able to legaly copy that brand new CD so that we can listen on that lovely new teacher laptop so thoughtfully subsidised by the Ministry of Education? Possibly. [...] Eight days since I last posted. I wish that I could say that I have been doing exciting, worthy things but sadly, no. it’s milestone and variation time here in ICT-PD-land and it’s all been about collating and compiling and putting it all together. This morning’s Sunday Star Times had a spend-up-before -Christmas glossy about some [...] The National Library (amongst others) has just released the Draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy Document. “The draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy is a sub-strategy of the Digital Strategy, and is the government’s five-year vision for unlocking New Zealand’s stock of content and providing all New Zealanders with seamless, easy access to the information that [...] At four years of age, Olivia has a huge future ahead of her. She is a bright and bouncy, engaging little girl who makes friends with everyone she meets. Olivia is starting to understand lots of the symbols and constructs of the world that she inhabits and she is confident and secure about her place [...] Yesterday I read with interest Will Richardson’s post Owning the Teaching…and the Learning. Will laments a teacher who told him that she doesn’t see any need to spend more than ten minutes online a day. “She said that she’s not going to sacrifice the other things that she already does in her life to spend more [...] I continually struggle with the concept that a tablet PC (or Mac or any other piece of electronic stuffetry) is going to do a better job than any other connected device to allow someone to engage with new learning. I can listen to the music on my tablet (or my desktop, Mac, iPod, MP3 player, phone [...] I’m working through a half baked concept about learning. Something along the lines of the Just in Time idea. Last week I absolutely needed a way to import a lot of records into a database. My database skills are legendary – because I have none. I created the tables in Excel and did what I should [...] |
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