Google Notebook is Useful

Information Work Online Experiment post collection
Show-N-Tell Chronicles
Although I started using the note collection feature of the free online Office Live Workspace at this year’s beginning I have subsequently switched to Google Notebook. From the perspective of building a centralised notebook repository Google Notebook is more feature-rich.
Where meetings and conferences provide wi-fi access then Google Notebook [...]

Imagining Learning with Web 2.0 Tools

Having agreed in a previous post with Martin Weller about the inappropriateness of traditional learning management systems in a social networking context I have been reading his blog further.
Martin has established a project called SocialLearn and done some thought research about what a social learning environment might be like. He proposes an interesting scenario and [...]

Learning Management Systems Under Threat from Web 2.0

Hot on the heels of presentations by Iain (HOD) and myself to a group of local teachers of IT comes confirmation of the problems facing learning management systems (LMS). Iain made the point that the structured top-down approach of LMS technology was not necessarily leading to better learning for the students.
We see this point echoed [...]

ICCMSN2008 Conference Report

With Peta Hopkins I attended the inaugural International Conference on Computer-Mediated Social Networks 2008 hosted by the Information Sciences (Information Systems) Department part of the Commerce Faculty at the University of Otago, Dunedin , New Zealand, over 11-13 June 2008. The conference was slow to use social networking tools but a Twitter account was set [...]

Need Centralised IT Services?

It has taken me a while to catch up with the term ‘technology populism’. Sarah Perez in her post tells us this appeared in a Forrester report. It appears that technology populism means:
an adoption trend led by a technology-native workforce that self provisions collaborative tools, information sources, and human networks — requiring minimal or no [...]

Top Ten Disruptive Technologies According to Gartner

David Cearley, a Gartner VP, has been speaking in Melbourne on the above topic. As reported in a post by eHomeUpgrade the top ten technologies are:

Multicore and hybrid processors
Virtualisation and fabric computing
Social networks and social software
Cloud computing and cloud/Web platforms
Web mashups
User Interface
Ubiquitous computing
Contextual computing
Augmented reality
Semantics [...]

Blogging 2.0 is Upon Us Already

According to some we are entering into the next phase of blogging inevitably named Blogging 2.0.
Duncan Riley (blogoz panellist and ex TechCrunch blogger) has recently created his own professional blog, Inquistr. He takes a cogent look at  ‘blogging 2.0′ where all of a person’s social media activity on sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube as well [...]

AideRSS is even Better

Eight months ago in a previous post about AideRSS I lauded the benefits that I had found after only 2 weeks of use. These benefits have progressed in the interim so that now 6 out of my top 20 most frequently read blogs are filtered by AideRSS. This amounts to a saving approaching 300 posts [...]

Simple Online Games to Help the World

Flashie Battle wrote a very interesting post the other day that predicts that online Flash games (bite-sized games as he calls them) are starting to become a major games category. [For my new student readers Flashie is a very successful Bond IT graduate who writes online Flash games for advertising purposes on major accounts.]
As a [...]

Gold Coast now has Bird’s Eye view on Live Maps

We now have Bird’s Eye view added to Live Maps in certain parts of Australia. The Gold Coast is fortunately one of the areas chosen for the launch. Bond Uni comes up very well: