Archive for March, 2009

Questions for Jo Kay

Q: SL is very visual, is there now a non-visual interface?
A: yes, can use chat clients to interact. A group called Virtual Ability is developing services which run on SL. For issues with motor skills, visibility etc.

Seventh and last speaker, Jo Kay

Thanks to NLA’s Tech team. A video about Second Life.
Machinema = Machine + Cinema
In Second Life (SL), has a presence called jokaydia. Immersive business and learning.
The latter is exemplified by 1-2-1 tutoring, this is done by Swinburne, Macquarie and Deakin Universities, and RMIT. In New Zealand, mid-wifery students learning how to support mothers virtually.
In Oz, [...]

Jo Kay – Freelance Geek

A look inside Second Life – “life beyond reality where imagination knows no bounds”! This is as close as I have ever got to Second Life. Jo began by showing a video made by user-generated content in 2006. She has the Islands of Jokaydia blog – see jokaydia.com.
Second Life is a virtual world that provides [...]

Questions for Jillian Dellit

Q: in the US, a real movement against having children going to traditional schools. Is there a home school movement addressing such issues?
A: In Australia, is at the anti-technology end of the scale. Has grown in the last two decades, it is about parents who have religious views or believe they don’t want their children [...]

Jillian Delitt – Schooling and Social Networking

Horizon Report 2009 K-12 – the organiser for today’s talk.
Jillian reflects on her teaching experience of 40 years ago – not able to talk to parents, rostering one child to sit outside the classroom to manage class sizes, teaching schedule. While this seems archaic, similar ‘restricitions’ exist today, including in relation to access to social [...]

Sixth speaker Jillian Dellit, Director Learning Federation Secretariat

Jan Fullerton (NLA’s Director-General) mentioned at the start of the Forum that schools in NSW are introducing Twitter skills into the curriculum.
Change – and controlling it
Jillian attended a social networking conference in Austin Texas two weeks ago, launched the 2009 K-12 Horizon Report. In Australia, States and Territories have primary responsibility for education still, even [...]

Questions for Darren Sharp

Q: How many people participated in the Future Melbourne wiki? Did the Council consider it useful. 200 contributions in a month.
A: City of Melbourne extremely happy, they used the wiki platform do continue the response internally. Comments were edited down to include in the Plan. Process has won two major planning awards internationally.
Q: a lot [...]

1st session after lunch – Darren Sharp

Mark Corbould is busy doing the housekeeping for the last session of the day. The room is looking a little less crowded this afternoon but there also now seem to be more laptops balanced precariously on laps.
Darren Sharp is the first speaker during this final afternoon session. He is speaking about “Co-creating culture with [...]

Darren throws down the gauntlet to the National Library

A Manifesto for the National Library of Australia – (please don’t be offended):
1. utilise the web as real time social infrastructure. Has tracked our NLA tag for this Forum:
Also should leverage collective intelligence within social network – Darren asked his friends how libraries should exploit this. Feedback was that libraries and social media should crowd-source [...]

Fifth speaker Darren Sharp, Co-creating culture with citizens

Collabforge is a Melbourne-based company.
The read-write web, collective intelligence, an architecture for participation ==> huge transformations in business. Co-create businesses, services, physical product eg t-Shirt designs.
New forms of engagement:
Connection – through APIs & mash-ups, public sector data, user-generated content, common pool resources. Interesting manipulations in reuse.
(an example occurred during the Victorian bushfires [...]