Digital Footprint

Cool Online Tools

Next week I facilitate a workshop designed to assist Year 11 students find some useful online tools to support their learning, especially research, collaboration, organisation, study and presentation. There will be a very, very brief presentation and overview of each tool and then students will be free to experiment, exploring the tools of use/interest to them. Do you mind [...]

Startpage Australia

I have commenced experimenting with Startpage - the “world’s #1 privacy search engine” – which has launched in Australia. This search engine accesses “nine other search engines all at once” and does not collect your data. Increasingly, privacy and the regulations which govern the internet are being debated widely, as online life assumes more and more [...]

Why Wikipedians are the Weirdest People on the Internet

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Google won’t make us stupid

  “Most experts agree that Google won’t make us stupid.”   PREDICTIONS  

Golden Rules for Keeping Safe Online

Read Write Web recently posted a story that I thought would garner more comments. I suspect it only had three, as most people agree with Europe’s 17 Golden Rules for Keeping Safe on Social Networks but are breaking some of them out of neccessity. This is what I mean. The following three ‘European rules’ When joining a social [...]

‘How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think?’

Here are the best answers you are likely to read, compiled by the Edge Foundation at their World Question Centre, to this important question.   The following passage, from Tim O’Reilly‘s musings on the question, Pattern Recognition, made me reflect about the challenges of staying ‘educated’ and being and ‘educator’ in our ever-shifting culture:   “It used to be the case that there was [...]

#nocleanfeed

Senator Conroy’s recent announcement about the censorship of the internet in Australia has disturbed and perturbed Australians who reflect intelligently on the nature of our civil society and the freedoms we enjoy. The benignly titled press release, ‘Measures to improve safety of the internet for families’ has been released in the week before christmas in [...]

Jonathan Zittrain: the web as random acts of kindness

Jonathan Zittrain‘s TED talk from July 2009.

Web Search Strategies in Plain English

How do you search the web effectively? Another in the ‘Plain English’ series of brief instructional videos. more about “Web Search Strategies in Plain Englis…“, posted with vodpod