links for 2007-05-22
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“A report for Britain’s Fraud Advisory Panel wants the Government to extend real-world financial regulations into Second Life…. It warns that players can transfer large sums of money across national borders without restriction and with little risk of be
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Adrian Miles makes a great post summarising the differences in software architecture and pratice between Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and web2.0 tools, such as blogs.
Powerpoint: Learning through Laughing
Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, as he demonstrates powerpointlessness in his stand-up routine. Check it out:
Life After Death by PowerPoint
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Perhaps this should be mandatory viewing for all teachers?
links for 2007-05-20
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“Sweden will open the first “diplomatic representation” in the virtual reality of web-based Second Life, a fantasy world inhabited by computer-generated residents, on May 30.”
links for 2007-05-19
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“More than 90% of UK teenagers have used a social networking website and more than half use them because their friends do, according to research. … one-third of teenagers have at least four social networking profiles…”
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“Fiji’s military government appears to have successfully blocked access to a number of critical blogs that have embarrassed the administration.”
links for 2007-05-18
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“Amazon has announced plans to launch a digital music store that will allow customers to download music without any digital copying protection.”
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Flickr apologies for making a big boo boo and retains transparency and (I’d hope) the respect of their community. (Unlike, say, JPG Magazine).
links for 2007-05-17
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“Technology drives the forces of globalization. But when we replace our computers and flat-screens with the newest in high-tech cool, what happens to the hardware we throw away? Welcome to the digital dumping ground…”
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“The Australian video games industry has stepped up its efforts to convince the Government to introduce an R18+ classification for video games.” (This is LONG OVERDUE!)
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“MySpace, an online social network popular with teenagers, said in two statements yesterday that it was prepared to work with [US] state attorneys general who have requested the identities of MySpace members who are known sex offenders.”
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