- HTML-Ipsum
- Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing
- Free Sketching & Wireframing Kit
- 15 Must-Have Minimalist Icon Sets | Freebies
- A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest | Freebies
- Top 20 Wireframe Tools | Garmahis
- The Reilly Papers
- Safe web fonts
- Can’t play, won’t play | Hide&Seek - Inventing new kinds of play
- Gaming the Classroom
- Gamestorming
- Wikipedia Teams Up With Academia : NPR
- Wikipedia Is NOT Wicked! | The Daring Librarian
- Teachers: Please stop prohibiting the use of Wikipedia | ZDNet
- Design Better And Faster With Rapid Prototyping - Smashing Magazine
- Free to Learn Guide - CC Wiki
- Improving the default content, comments, and user admin pages in Drupal using Views – MeganMcDermott.com
- Cutting Time
- Inkscape Tutorials - Sagar Shastry
- Psd to CSS. Turn a PSD to HTML with this series of articles
- How to create a Drupal 6 theme from scratch | A Padded Cell
- 10 ways to use Avatars in Education
- HTML5 (Edition for Web Authors)
- Using Graphics To Improve Learning: The eLearning Coach
- Serious Games on a Global Market Place
- Ultimate Guide to Website Wireframing
- Danish research on learning games
- OpenOffice.org development boosted by Arab-Israeli collaboration - Page 2 - Software - News
- an oldie but a goodie - reminder of why foss matters.
- Gamification: Turning Work Into Play | h+ Magazine
- Man vs. Brand - How Gamification Will Change Your World
- Presentation Zen: Learning slide design from an IKEA billboard
- Drupal looks beyond open source zealots • The Register
- 11 Stages of Womanhood - Wikimedia Commons
- Man vs. Brand - How Gamification Will Change Your World
- hilarious!
- Digital Technologies and performative pedagogies: Repositioning the visual - Digital Culture & Education
- - why learning image editing and creating is as important as learning to write.
- Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I'll Never be an Adult
- Howardism: Tutorials
- My Drupal Bookmarks
- Theme Garden | Drupal 6 Themes
- Lorem Ipsum Generator • Publishing • Procato.com
- Building Classroom Community | Scholastic.com
- Confession of a Former Technophobe | Scholastic.com
- ScienceDirect - Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences : Are teachers technophobes? Investigating professional competency in the use of ICT to support teaching and learning
- Create a Killer Band Site in Drupal – Part 3 – XHTML | GoMediaZine
- Encoding a Photoshop Mockup into XHTML & CSS
- 20+ Photoshop Tutorials PSD to HTML/CSS, 35+ Online Services | tripwire magazine
- From Photoshop to HTML | BolducPress, a web design blog
- Howardism: Tutorials
- missing step 2
- Minimal and Modern Layout: PSD to XHTML/CSS Conversion
- the missing step!
- 9 Upcoming Tablet Alternatives to the Apple iPad
- Information dumping: is it effective? | Jen e-blogger
- Great presentation from Cathy Moore linked in to this blog post.
- Usability of iPad Apps and Websites: First Research Findings
- iA » WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…
- Delimiter – Victorian Premier buys 500 iPads for schools
- iTWire - Brighton Grammar hand out iPads
- infoarch: Is Your Organization a Process or a Network?
- Information Architecture Tutorial | Webmonkey | Wired.com
- iA » WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…
- "Information architecture is the science of figuring out what you want your site to do and then constructing a blueprint before you dive in and put the thing together" - Great 5 part intro to web info architecture.
- Ed Tech Crew » Ed Tech Crew 119 – Professionals use Trackpads
- Great selection of links this week from the edtechcrew
- Inkscape Tutorial: Seamless Patterns | Vectors
- Articles - Vectors for the Web – Part 1 | iStockphoto.com
- 50 Design Tutorials for Mastering Gimp | Creative Nerds
- Articles - Vectors for the Web – Part 1 | iStockphoto.com
- Looking forward to digging into this list and putting some gloss back on my gimp skillz
- findability.org - by Peter Morville
- Peter Morville is president and founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience, and findability consultancy. He is best known for helping to create the discipline of information architecture, and he serves as a passionate advocate for the critical roles that search and findability play in defining the user experience.
- Adult Learning - Neuroscience - How to Train the Aging Brain - NYTimes.com
- Measures to improve safety of the internet for families | Senator Stephen Conroy | Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
- Awful news for Australia.
- Circle of Life: the technology-using educator edition « Generation YES Blog
- The story of the Drupal 7 core help update | Affinity Bridge | Vancouver Drupal Developers
- Great blog post talking about the behind the scenes mammoth effort of improving documentation and help pages for Drupal7
- Free Vector Graphics - Vectorish
- Conferences and events in Australia - edna.edu.au
- Twitter earns its journalism stripes in Parliament – Crikey
- Slashdot Submission | Inkscape 0.47 is released
- The Bitterati | Contemporary Learning
- Conferences and events in Australia - edna.edu.au
- The ugly side of the backchannel. Managing the conversation, warts and all requires awareness and respect.
- makerfaire.com: Maker Faire Newcastle 2010
- The Primary Design Elements: A New Series
- How To Style Your Type With CSS
- TypEdu | Theory Lesson Listing
- modulus - blog - Plone vs. Drupal, Take One
- The Primary Design Elements: A New Series
- Solid article comparing Drupal and Plone
- Facilitating Online/course mini conference - Wikiversity
- Inkscape and Gimp 2.0 to deliver Unit 21 of the OCR Nationals Qualification | Open Source Schools
- Drawing Together
- Inkscape and Gimp 2.0 to deliver Unit 21 of the OCR Nationals Qualification | Open Source Schools
- great resource - shame about the "best viewed in ie" though...
- NMC and UOC Release Call to Action for Open Education | nmc
- New Media Consortium and Open Uni of Catalunya cosponsored the open edtech summit. They generated fifty action items and ranked up a top 5; 1 - encourage reuse, 2 - embrace mlearning devices, 3 - outcomes based credentials, 4 - enable sharing and 5 - OER must include context
- UNESCO Bangkok: ICT in Education Themes
- eLearning Learning
- community collecting and organizing the best information on the web about eLearning
- Physical Place and CyberPlace: The Rise of Personalized Networking
- highlighted by howard rheingold
- The question of open source - Views - livemint.com
- "Free and open source software represents openness, sharing, and a culture of learning and enquiry. It invites us to understand, build upon, and advance the software tools needed for our community."
- OLPC Pre-Pilot Evaluation Report (Haiti)
- - tracked approximately 2,340 hours of daily student usage of the XO laptop
- 1:2 computing doesn't work as well as 1:1
- 4 of the 17 available activities are used 88% of the time
- kids fear taking home the XO in case they're robbed
- teachers need training and ongoing support to transition effectively from teacher centered to student centered learning - Typogridphy — A Typographical and Grid Layout CSS Framework From Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry
- Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics | Deep Tech - CNET News
- Has Drupal peaked? | modulism
- Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics | Deep Tech - CNET News
- interesting article about the
- Open Source, Portable Usability Testing Lab: Part 1 « mairin
- "As we go through this process, I’m making sure to document everything so anybody else who wanted to put together a similar kit without having to run proprietary software to do so can learn from this experience. One of my next blog posts is going to be a rundown of all of the equipment I ordered for our kit with photos and writeups of how to use it all so if you are interested in this, you can look forward to that."
- xkcd - A Webcomic - Tech Support Cheat Sheet
- ACEC 2006Â -Â Sonja Bernhardt - The global failure of intervention programs
- ideaslab - finding out what is possible
- ACEC 2006Â -Â Sonja Bernhardt - The global failure of intervention programs
- The Broadmeadows innovation and learning lab - first heard about this at last year's VITTA conf. Interesting. But where's the FOSS?
- Sandra Schaffert: Open Educational Resources as Facilitators of Open Educational Practices: Results and Recommendations of the EU-Project “OLCOSâ€
- various forms of being 'open', as in Popper's the Open Society
- Open Education As A Practice + Notes
- various forms of being 'open', as in Popper's the Open Society
- chris chesher
- http://www.drupalace.com/print/book/export/html/73
- Were we smarter 100 years ago..? | The Public Domain |
- Kerry Johnson - Bookmarks | Diigo
- Applying Divine Proportion To Your Web Designs | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Grid Systems – Making grids in Illustrator : font.is
- Grid (page layout) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dynamic Web Pages from your Photoshop Designs in Seconds! | psd 2 CSS Online
- The Brads - Learning About Contrast in Design
- Open Learning Initiative
- Grids
- The Grid Method
- Feeding the Cloud: Writing the perfect patch
- Graphic Design | Grid Systems in Graphic Design - YouWorkForThem
- Gestalten - Books Detail: Grid Index
- | Create Beading Patterns with Inkscape (free software) - Page 1 |
- Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain • The Register
- 960.gs Templates for Inkscape | kaioa.com
- To Decode or Not to Decode Your DNA - SmartPlanet
- Were we smarter 100 years ago..? | The Public Domain |
- an interesting one for bio-science students... ?
- International Paper - Imposition
- PDF, PostScript and Imposition tools - Scribus Public Wiki
- Imposition Handbook » Baumfolder Corporation
- YouTube - Workflow of InDesign CS3
- Workflow Tip: Illustrator to Fontlab | GoMediaZine
- Linux.com :: Small-business forms using Scribus and PDF
- A design process revealed | stopdesign
- Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Graphics in OpenOffice.org: SVG, EPS and WMF | andrew.mcmillan.net.nz
- A List Apart: Articles: A Design Method
- InformIT: Developing a Graphic Design Workflow > What Is a Workflow?
- Educational Videos for Kids about Science, Math, Social Studies and English
- Brain Leaders and Learners
- Home | ACARA
- PDF, PostScript and Imposition tools - Scribus Public Wiki
- Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority
- Resources: Sketching tutorials
- Great little videos demonstrating key drawing techniques.
- Cutting Time: Text kerning in Inkscape
- InternetNZ supports Australasian Linux Conference : InternetNZ Blog
- Every New Zealander that uses the Internet is an open source user. It’s the backbone of almost everything business and government does these days. If you want to get close to the people that have built the core technology of the 21st century, you go to conferences like LCA2010
- Color Matters - Design and Art - Color Theory
- Web & Graphic Design Libraries - Design-Lib.com
- keep coming back to this site... it's a great reference.
- Graphic Design Principles
- Bézier Splines in GDI+
- Curve specified by four points: two end points (p1 and p2) and two control points (c1 and c2). The curve begins at p1 and ends at p2. The curve does not pass through the control points, but the control points act as magnets, pulling the curve in certain directions and influencing the way the curve bends.
The curve starts at p1 and moves toward the control point c1. The tangent line to the curve at p1 is the line drawn from p1 to c1. The tangent line at the endpoint p2 is the line drawn from c2 to p2. - VISUAL ARTS: ELEMENTS AND PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN
- Composition and Design Principles
- The use of design principles applied to the visual elements is like visual grammar. ... Looking for the visual effects of design principles artist options are not limited, but it focuses their experimentation and choice making.
- Basic in depth guide to Inkscape Path Operations | KalaaLog
- Introduction to Vector Drawing 101
- APRESS.COM : Beginning Inkscape : 9781430225133
- Cory Doctorow: Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google | Technology | guardian.co.uk
- Introduction to Vector Drawing 101
- Good search engine placement is make-or-break advertising. It's ideological mindshare. It's relevance.
- Decoding antiquity: Eight scripts that still can't be read - life - 27 May 2009 - New Scientist
- Without writing, there could be no accumulation of knowledge, no historical record, no science - and of course no books, newspapers or internet.
- Design for print - tips, tricks and links
- ... tinkering with other people’s masterpieces, trying to output them on a proofer, an imagesetter or a CtP device. Here is a long list of things that a good designer takes care of so that his or her job gets printed the way a customer likes it.
- Melbourne brainier, not rainier, than Sydney | theage.com.au
- Sydney is poorly planned, brash, shallow, glitzy, self-obsessed, expensive, nasty and choked by traffic fumes, while Melbourne is gentler, thoughtful, erudite and conservative, an altogether more refined place.
- Technology & Business | PCs & Peripherals | Features | Audit report on Government's accessibility raises RTF Vs ODF debate
- "The Government publishes a vast range of material. Most of it is crown copyright. It would be great if that material was released and licensed for re-use, using creative commons licenses." - Me.
- Apres open source, le deluge? | The Open Road - CNET News
- Principles of community-building, transparency, sharing, etc. make open source work. Explaining and building upon these should be our focus.
- Q and A with Linus Torvalds - Technology - theage.com.au
- If you manage a thousand clients, or a hundred thousand clients which is not at all unheard of, you sure as hell don't want to point and click at them.
- Linux on the Desktop
- Lessons from mainstream business adoption - IBM funded research into windows to linux desktop migrations.
- Confectionery - Concept - eMelbourne
- sweet melbourne
- Tapering Rivers using Inkscape video tutorial - Map Making Techniques Using GIMP - Learn: paths, coordinateconversion, tutorials, effects, GIMP, maps, map, tutorial, path, tips, help, mapping, tip, making, inkscape, cartography, creation, layer, layers
- Red Hat Magazine | The open palette:How to use Inkscape’s new blur filter
- Red Hat Magazine | The open palette: Creating grungy Gimp brushes using Inkscape
- Red Hat Magazine | The open palette:How to use Inkscape’s new blur filter
- MáirÃn Duffy
- Drawing Lessons
- animation how to, with general drawing principles... presented as drawings.
- Linux and the channel | Open Source | ZDNet.com
- laptops, netbooks, phones...
- OnTheCommons.org » Yoga as a Commons, Yoga as Private Property
- ODF: Our Document Future
- Original of the paper I just redelivered for MNUG - time to revist perhaps.
- Teaching and Learning with Technology - Feminist Geek
- use technology to facilitate teaching and learning
- Medieval secrets behind Microsoft research | Tech News on ZDNet
- What research is, really, is networking. It's about influence and status and competition and being the first to know. ... The first open-source MS software came from MS Research's work in IPv6; the academic necessities of collaboration and openness feed both ways and that does the company more good than it'll ever admit on the record.
- Aussie Local Gov Open Source-based Fire Mapping Site up for Award - All Points Blog
- Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote - web - Technology
- The Downtown Diner
- Student hoaxes world's media with fake Wiki quote - web - Technology
- Your job as the program manager is to make sure the rubber band stays in the shape of a circle. If anyone starts to pull too hard on their part and the shape goes out of whack, you have to either bring them back into line or give the others a chance to pull on their parts equally hard so that your band regains its shape.
- What a Community Manager does « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing
- Graphic Design Basics - Learn the Elements and Principles of Graphic Design Basics
- MIT course: MAS 964: Expressive Typography and New Media
- The Visual Language of Experts in Graphic Design
- Food company cooks up in-house ERP software - accounting, CIOs, erp, ingres database - Techworld
- Graphic Design Basics - Learn the Elements and Principles of Graphic Design Basics
- “From a staffing point of view there is a lot more satisfaction among the programmers. New business functionality is something a programmer can get satisfaction out of, and I get more satisfaction in getting more involved with the business.â€
- ~Richard Shilling~ Land Art
- Open Source Graphic Design Tutorials
- If you haven't heard of Inkscape, you're missing out on something major.
- http://www.pilatinfo.org/dessin_loc/draw.svg
- Video tutorials
- From Sketch to Vector Illustration | GoMediaZine
- Principles of Learning and Teaching P-12 Unpacked - Principles of Learning and Teaching - Student Learning - Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
- Modern Sitemap and Footer
- learningEvolves - nonUniversals
- Video tutorials
- And the rise of Schools going all the way back to the Sumerian and Egyptian times came about to start helping children learn some of these things that aren't easy to learn. It can be argued that if you are trying to be utopian about education what we should be doing is helping the children of the world learn these hard to learn things. Equal rights is a really good one to help children learn. No culture in the world is particularly good at it.
- Ballmer clueless on Oracle acquisition - SmartCompany | Business news, trends and ideas for Australia
- I commented on this article - ostensibly to correct two serious errors. Dunno if a copy editor is at fault, or the writer really got this wrong. Errors - "Oracle... previously produced only hardware" and "Sun Micro controls the JavaScript computer language". They've since fixed the 2nd error - but the first remains.
- What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects) | O'Reilly Media
- read this article ages ago! just found it again.
- Reinventing social democracy vital for progress | theage.com.au
- The Great Depression led to the New Deal in the US and fascism in Germany. The battle of ideas has never been more important, because where the future leads is up to us.
- Referee.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- The Female Perspective of Computer Science: First Experience Reviewing a Paper
- Intel Software Network Blogs » Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore’s Law
- drawahouse.com - the real estate test
- The Female Perspective of Computer Science: First Experience Reviewing a Paper
- funny! found this while looking for inspiration and examples to go with my "Draw a House" intro to inkscape exercise. The site uses a flash website and guides people to draw a house, then answer some questions to give them a personality profile.
- Graincorp to mix GM canola with main crop
- Grain handler Graincorp has announced that genetically modified (GM) varieties of canola will be mixed in with the main crop in this year's harvest. This is NOT good.
- The Procurement Decision- Open or Closed Source Software? - [2005] DeakinLRev 12; (2005) 10 Deakin Law Review 261
- Interview with Bryce Harrington: Ubuntu Xorg Maintainer - MS Windows Vista Compatible Software
- "I’d love to hear more cases of users finding Inkscape as a “gateway drug†into trying other FOSS applications, and eventually make the switch to Linux. "
- MySQL Admin and Development Tools Round Up | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
- 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Computer-supported collaborative learning: An historical perspective
- 10 Simple and Impressive Design Techniques | How-To | Smashing Magazine
- Computers in the classroom are often viewed with skepticism. They are seen by critics as boring and anti-social, a haven for geeks and a mechanical, inhumane form of training. CSCL is based on precisely the opposite vision: it proposes the development of new software and applications that bring learners together and that can offer creative activities of intellectual exploration and social interaction.
- Computer-supported collaborative learning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lead2Learning - Video
- A short video with background on the CoFFEE project.
- Collaborative Face to Face Educational Environment - EduTech Wiki
- Coffee-Soft features and highlights
- CoFFEE is an open-source suite of applications that can easily be installed on any local network - be it a school's computer lab or a corporate boardroom.
CoFFEE is complemented by pedagogical scenarii - customisable lesson plans that are written by the projects researchers. - Red Hat Magazine | Video: The seeds of open source
- "Knowledge is a collective tradition. It is a common resource of society." Dr Vandana Shiva
- Google Begins Behavioral Targeting Ad Program | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com
- open thinking
- Linux.com :: Portrait: Raph Levien, font-designer and free software contributor
- Linux.com Article DB: Linux.com Interviews Lauris Kaplinski - 1/3
- Inkscape - A Union of Contributions Makes a Difference
- 10 Tips For Creating Good Looking Diagrams Using Inkscape @ IONCANNON
- Help:Vector graphics tutorial - Wikimedia Commons
- Inkscape
- Wired Campus: Professor Encourages Students to Pass Notes During Class -- via Twitter - Chronicle.com
- drupalib | A place for library drupallers to hang out
- Content Manager Workshop | Drupal Content Management System
- Inkscape Labrat
- how to: lineart with inkscape by *happyline on deviantART
- SVG Graphics - Tutorial Part 3
- IA:I2: Introduction to Inkscape
- How to make technology conferences suck less | Community, Incorporated | ZDNet.com
- Filter Effects Developer: Filter Effects Tutorial
- Drawing the Hands Tutorial by ~hyperdex on deviantART
- Inkscape Video Training Tutorials | SimonSezIT.com Online Training
- Flickr: Discussing Finding your beautiful drop shadows are getting ugly-fied on Flickr? in Screencasters User Contributed Content
- Christian Partl | Illustration | Dripbook
- A downloading guide for freeloaders - BizTech - Technology - smh.com.au
- Drupal: create a block to display a user's organic groups - Forum One Tech Blog
- YouTube - Inkscape + Spiro
- Melbourne ACEC2010
- At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - NYTimes.com
- Welcome to a new blog dedicated to showcasing the variety of social activities that are available in Melbourne. This blog was created for participants of the ACEC2010 conference for ICT teachers around world. So kick back (there is still quite some time to go!) and keep up to date with the social opportunities you will experience when you come to Melbourne in 2010!
- Justin’s Theatre Links: Directing
- Australian Theatre Directors Conference - Home
- And further.. You can’t do Code Metrics in MS VSTS DB Edition. Ridiculous! « The Pragmatic Agilista
- Australian Theatre Directors Conference - Home
- He says "I love the .NET framework, and generally I’m a fan of Microsoft products. Hell, I’m using Live Writer to write this post. But I’m getting tired of the splintering of products in order to pry an extra couple thousand dollars out of us. In our case, that’s a per developer cost." The model is breaking.
- Events: Creating Comics in Inkscape (LGM 2007) / The Last Bus
- Inkscape Tutorial » Welcome to my Inkblog
- My background over the years has seen me using Corel Draw and Illustrator a great deal, because these two products are the industry standards. Illustrator for the Offset Publishing Industry: Corel Draw for The Promotional Industry: I have written Books and Taught these two programs for more years than I care to mention. When Inkscape came along it was like a breath of fresh air! at last someone had designed a program and actually worked with a real Artist who uses these programs. The ergonomics and usability of Inkscape are second to none.
- Creating Passionate Users: Crash course in learning theory
- Linux for Designers - by Eckhard M. Jäger
- Drupal_Instructions_47.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- End-User Guide | IHEYO
- End user guide | drupal.org
- edit_drupal_site – Support – Trac
- Drupal end user guide - how to manage basic content for beginners - dvize creative - melbourne
- IBSA | Training and Assessment Cert iv review
- Linux for Designers - by Eckhard M. Jäger
- Melbourne Consultation - Tue 5th May & Wed 6th May
- ICTeD Services: VITTA's Open for Education Day [Open Source Software in Education]
- T.H.E. Journal Online: Technology Horizons in Education
- Angela Maiers Educational Services: Mini Lesson - Teaching the Habitude of Curiosity
- Klog: Kathy Reid’s Blog » StixcampNewstead - Donna Benjamin’s talk on Inkscape
- From inkscape to illustrator - TreeGarden
- T.H.E. Journal Online: Technology Horizons in Education
- a couple of gotchas for interoperability between inkscape and illustrator
- SitePoint » Open Source Image Editors…for Designers?
- Inkscape and GIMP get the once over on sitepoint.
- The Driblet of an Aphorism: Inkscape Tutorial #2: Text and Simple Styling
- Inkscape has tools for sophisticated tracking, character rotation and line spacing. These tricks prevent the need to convert characters to paths, cut out their bowls, and manually manipulate characters. This tutorial will attempt to free you from that tedious process and open up a larger realm of flexibility.
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny | Video on TED.com
- » Why Freedom Matters Open Source Software For Libraries
- Nice little article using comparison of Wordpress and Movable type to articulate the importance of software freedom.
- Hawthorn Landings: Notes from SIGCSE 2009 & Barriers to Adoption of FLOSS in the Curriculum
- Awesome post by Leslie Hawthorn.
- Australian Computers in Education Conference - ACEC2010 - Melbourne
- The Australian Computers in Education Conference 2010 (ACEC2010) is the biennial conference of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). In 2010 the ACEC conference will be hosted by ICT in Education Victoria (ICTEV).
ACEC2010: Digital Diversity
Date: April, 2010
Venue: Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre, Victoria, Australia - Cappuccino Web Framework - Learn About Cappuccino and Objective-J
- Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.
- EcoGeek - Clean Technology
- Dear Speakers - James Duncan Davidson
- Great tips for presenting from a conference photographer. Seems like common sense but easy to forget when nerves take hold, or inexperience hasn't taught you these yet. Take a leaping start to being a great speaker and adopt every one of these tips to improve your stage presence.
- McKinsey: six ways to make Web 2.0 work : John Connell: The Blog
- John Connell's posts are well written and nicely thought. This one is mostly quoted from the mckinsey report, but other recent posts also include reporting the twitterquake around melb's earth tremor, and writing for curriki for cash - an open source curriculum project.
- www.theage.com.au - Don't search for heroes in the CFA
- "We are volunteers and with that comes the very Australian characteristic of refusing to take shit from any person, particularly our superiors. And they know it. Being a volunteer also gives you some room to agitate, and our organisation is all the better for it." Jim Darby, a sub-editor at The Age, has been a CFA volunteer for 15 years and is First Lieutenant with the Mount Macedon Fire Brigade.
- OpenOffice.org - MacOS downloads
- cool to see OpenOffice 3.01 as featured download on Apple's Unix and Open Source page :)
- Jonathan Schwartz's Blog: Sun's Q2 Financial Results
- In the midst of this economic downturn, discussions related to free and open source software have substantially heated up - this is no longer a peripheral discussion with CIO's - cost reduction related to open source adoption has become a focal point for decision makers across the world.
- FOSS4G 2009 Lessons Learned - OSGeo Wiki
- Convert any website layout or template into a Drupal theme - easily! | drupal.org
- Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction
- Convert any website layout or template into a Drupal theme - easily! | drupal.org
- thanks to @kathysierra and @hreingold for pointing this one out.
- Novel approaches to sequences of learning « John W Lewis
- AC/OS: The Future of Lock-in
- Ada Love Lace Day - Pledge to Blog about Women in Tech
- AC/OS: The Future of Lock-in
- 'I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire' - PledgeBank
- Learning Inkscape - An Order of the Stick Avatar Guide
- The full adoption of OOo in the Cambodian education System
- Video on presentation of openoffice for education in Cambodia... from the OpenOffice conference in beijing last year... thought it might interest you... and your Khmer teacher
- marketing: OOoCon 2009 - Call for Location
- mmmmmmmmm
- iTWire - Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post
- Open source: a different approach to developing software | 2 Jan 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
- Tutorial notes for 'The Joy of Inkscape' at LCA2009
- KompoZer Tutorials (thesitewizard.com)
- Doing it tomorrow - On Line Opinion - 17/12/2008
- The case for establishing a national centre for pedagogy
- Open source: a different approach to developing software | 2 Jan 2009 | ComputerWeekly.com
- A study conducted by Monash Uni for Teaching Australia. What is Pedadgogy? Why does it matter? What would a national centre achieve and why is it needed? "... To date, little attention has been
given to pedagogy, the actual practice of teaching." - Bursting the proprietary-software bubble : Insight : Software - ZDNet Asia
- The equilibrium, free-market price of software is nothing.
- SitePoint » SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
- education2020 » home
- Virginia Bell's journey from barrel girl to the High Court | theage.com.au
- education2020 » home
- Hurrah!
- Techworld - Microsoft revising 'us vs. them' attitude toward open source
- EdTech'98 Proceedings: Russell - hypertext, chaos and control - between conservatism and radical pedagogy
- EdTech'98 Proceedings: Ivanoff - running a virtual conference: Lessons learned
- EdTech'98 Proceedings: Russell - hypertext, chaos and control - between conservatism and radical pedagogy
- Open Learning Australia's first virtual conference in March 1998: What went wrong, why, and how the problems could have been avoided.
- Syllabus Article Matching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Sparky's Blog: Adelaide OLPC Workshop
- Twitter / acec2010:
- Sparky's Blog: Adelaide OLPC Workshop
- ACEC = Australian Computers in Education Conference... just in case anyone was wondering
- Twitter / acec2010
- ACEC2010 Digital Diversity Conference Twitter Feed
- Linux.com :: K12Linux founders hand off project to the Fedora community
- Big news.
- OpenOffice skakes Microsoft | Australian IT
- Disclosure regimes for charities and not-for-profit organisations
- Communities of practice
- Disclosure regimes for charities and not-for-profit organisations
- A virtual Community of Practice (CoP) is a network of individuals who share a domain of interest about which they communicate online.
- Zimi's Story: Video on Flickr
- ... with education we will solve our own problems.
- Kennards give staff $3000 bonus
- Kennards are big open source users. In tough times interesting to see this kind of confidence - so - does using FOSS deliver competitive advantage?
- Google-linux.conf.au Diversity Delegates Programme - linux.conf.au 2009 | 19 - 24 Jan | Marchsouth to Hobart
- Typography. I Love Typography, devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.
- Top 50+ graphic design blogs | David Airey » graphic designer, logo designer
- Techworld - Open source is dying -- or maybe it isn't
- Typography. I Love Typography, devoted to fonts, typefaces and all things typographical.
- The difference between free and non-free or proprietary software is similar to the divide between science and alchemy. Before science, there was alchemy, where people guarded their ideas because they wanted to corner the market on the mechanisms used to convert lead into gold.
- SitePoint » The Argument Against Software as a Service
- Why the freedom to set up your own systems is important.
- Inkscape: Change default document properties | KatteKrab
- How to change inkscape's default page settings
- YouTube - Moodle explained with LEGO short version
- Great little video introducing moodle - 2:45 long.
- Kevin Kelly
- The Open Classroom: Twitter as a Community of Practice for Educators
- Jo McLeay explores microblogging by groups of educators as communities of practice, and whether the learning constructed by these groups can be thought of as professional development.
- The Anarchists Annual Meeting - A Parable for Open Access
- The profits collected by commercial journals are not payments for any input that the publisher provides, but are simply rents that they can collect because of their position as a focal point in a game of coordination.
- Main Articles: 'Copyright Angst, Lust for Prestige and Cost Control: What Institutions Can Do to Ease Open Access ', Ariadne Issue 57
- When everything was still published on paper, authors of certain types of academic/scholarly publications (articles, books, some conference proceedings) often transferred their whole copyright exclusively and irrevocably to the publisher of the work concerned. The publisher required them to do so in exchange for the layout and the distribution of the publication and for organising the review process.
- Who is Who: Interview with Mike Wesch
- "Teaching is all about delivering the answers - anti-teaching is about inspiring good questions." Mike Wesch
- adaptivethemes | Adaptive Theme Demos
- Demo site of a set of drupal themes built with the genesis framework - with tutorials for how to customise them.
- Connexions - Sharing Knowledge and Building Communities
- Connexions is: a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc.
- Cost-Conscious Companies Turn to Open-Source Software - BusinessWeek
- commercial open source companies doing well as world starts to appreciate value in tough times. SugarCRM, Digium and Zenoss have all just reported record quarters.
- Free Software for Schools - OSV Catalog
- Short URL for FOSS catalog - Free Software for Schools - by Con Zymaris at Open Source Victoria, revised by Bryant Patten from National Centre for Open Source in Education - http://tr.im/1pus
- Learn About - K12 Open Ed Wiki
- What is "Open Education" and what does it mean for the future of learning? What role can Australia play? | CCI
- Papillon - OLPC
- XO Annotated Motherboard
- What is "Open Education" and what does it mean for the future of learning? What role can Australia play? | CCI
- Get up close an personnel with the gizzards of the OLPC XO motherboard. This image identifies the major components, from CPU, to mesh, to battery charger.
- Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence of Open Educational Resources
- Published by the OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - "Although it only covers higher education, most of the issues raised are also of relevance for the school sector and adult education.
Further investigation into use and production of OER in schools and the implications for the school sector would be of utmost interest." - Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos | OEDb
- Open Education News
- Monitoring news related to open education around the globe
- elearnspace. Learning Management Systems: The wrong place to start elearning
- Learning itself is different - it is not a process to be managed. Learning is by nature multi-faceted and chaotic.
- learning theory - models, product and process
- Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives - Chronicle.com
- OpenOffice 3.0 a fresh blow for Microsft - Articles - Digital Life - smh.com.au
- Blackboard Customers Consider Alternatives - Chronicle.com
- Adam Turner review OOo - "If you're spending a fortune on MS Office licenses, you should at least be evaluating OpenOffice to see if it meets the needs of your basic users, if not your power users."
- ICT Results - Free software gets an education
- Free and Open Source Educational Software
- Slashdot | Why the Widening Gender Gap In Computer Science?
- Free and Open Source Educational Software
- "Unfortunately, the article mentions that in the 80s, female enrollment in CS was closer to parity with males. Something has changed since then and I doubt it's biological." jjohn in comments
- EdTechPost
- Technologies for Learning, Thinking and Collaborating: Scott Leslie is an educational technology researcher and emerging technology analyst. He currently works on a multi-disciplinary ‘open content’ repository and is part of the Edutools.info team.
- Computerworld - What Outsourcers Can Learn from Open-Source Communities
- communicating in virtual teams - asynchronous comms - lists, email, irc - better than meetings, phone calls - but community and caring about team members are a key difference. Could be a useful article for students doing VCE IT Applications Virtual Teams
- Education | Change.gov
- nothing about technology - but yeah, this looks like the change they need.
- Education IT chiefs debate open source - Network World
- Global Network Initiative
- SFD08 - cc::wiki
- eFront - Refreshing eLearning & Human Capital Development
- Global Network Initiative
- yet another e-learning platform...
- ACECConference.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- Dr Evan ARthur - presentation given at acec2008 - summarises digital education revolution stuff.
- TPCK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge - TPCK
- Maine writes a new ed-tech story
- The Ampersand
- Techworld - No Clean Feed - well duh!
- The open source textbook conundrum | Open Source | ZDNet.com
- Is Linux really worth $10.8 billion? | Open Source | ZDNet.com
- Maine writes a new ed-tech story
- Another advantage of code visibility is value visibility.
- If the world could vote?
- Australia 13,456 91.7%
- Index Librorum Prohibitorum | Creative Contingencies Pty. Ltd.
- Open Source Schools
- Open Source Schools is an initiative to inform schools about Open Source Software (OSS). A number of schools are already realising the benefits of OSS within their ICT strategy. This project will work to share their experiences with the wider community of educational practitioners.
- Are we headed for a property crash? - Smart Company
- Humanitarian FOSS Project Symposium 2009 » About
- Integrating Foss into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum - 4 March 2009
- Open Clip Art Library Drawing Together
- The Open Clip Art Library aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project must be placed into the Public Domain according to the Public Domain statement created by the Creative Commons. If you'd like to help out, please join the mailing list. Also, browse the archives to review the project's history.
- Christmas Parties | Pleasure Boat Cruises
- The Pedagogics: Introduction to FOSS Pedagogy
- The Concept of School - Practical Theory
- Art Making Software
- Open educational resources and practices - a set on Flickr
- OpenStomp(TM) Home
- OpenStomp(TM) Home
- The Pedagogics: Introduction to FOSS Pedagogy
- an open source audio effects processor built for guitar players
- All The Modern Things: Melbourne's Software Freedom Day
- Software Freedom Day 2008 « mvngu
- #more ROWDY: Software Freedom Day (Melbourne)
- Researchers use Open Source virtual world for language teaching - Internet - iTnews Australia
- Use The STING Method To Stop Procrastinating | Matthew Cornell - Personal Productivity Specialist
- Software Freedom Day 2008 « mvngu
- From a typo... intersting to googling 'define: sting' to wikipedia/STING_(productivity) - to this little blog post. nice.
- Mama Mia - The Cruise! | Pleasure Boat Cruises
- ICT Guy
- Building a Beta Web
- ICT Guy
- Pat Wagner - QLD based ed-tech consultant.
- Hors des lieux communs » The Archive
- Massive Vinyl record archive in search of a home... US$3,000,000 - doesn't really seem like much for a collection probably worth US$50,000,000 - but equally possibly priceless.
- Schedule - linux.conf.au 2009 | 19 - 24 Jan | Marchsouth to Hobart
- diagram of blog comments on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- Aspiration Paper -- Creating Participatory Events | Aspiration
- diagram of blog comments on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
- “Participatory event†refers to a gathering where participants shape the agenda before and during the event, instead of reading a fixed schedule beforehand and then shuffling between sessions that have been slotted weeks or months in advance. The focus in such events is placed on peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and network building instead of large group listening.
- Towards an Open Future for Education - ICommons wiki
- Shallow Thoughts
- Akkana Peck's excellent summary blog posts of her experience at LCA2008
- All The Modern Things: Whither free software in education?
- I learnt more about free software in education at a Software Freedom Day event with an audience numbering tens, than I did at a gigantic biennial national computers-in-education conference. So we freedom lovers can’t afford lobby groups and trade show exhibition stalls; I reckon we could have at least put together a FLOSS talk from someone who actually knows what the term means.
- Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources
- Edmodo - Microblogging For Education
- OLCOS Roadmap 2012 - OLCOS
- Edmodo - Microblogging For Education
- Open Educational Practices and Resources. OLCOS Roadmap 2012
Overview of current and likely future developments in OER and recommendations on how various challenges in OER could be addressed.
* Policies, institutional frameworks and business models;
* Open Access and open content repositories;
* Laboratories of open educational practices and resources. - 21st Century Education - Introducing the Technology Integration Matrix - OpenEducation.net
- Open Education - Free Education For All
- Education Week: Open Content in K-12 Education
- Impediments to widespread adoption of open source in education | Chris Coppola
- Open Education - Free Education For All
- Produce more and better marketing materials. He notes that most people outside the community source subculture still judge the risks of open source as higher and the benefits as lower than proprietary alternatives. "Some of this misperception," he says "is rooted in simple ignorance, though proprietary vendors, seeking to preserve their market position, nurture of of it too."
- Leading Beyong the ICT Conundrums for Scholarshop 2.0 | Dr Brad Wheeler
- What’s Your Ideal Educational Technology Conference?
- Solution Grove - Blog
- Webcast: You are a Natural Born (Visual) Storyteller
- What’s Your Ideal Educational Technology Conference?
- Nancy Duarte talks about being powerful not powerpointless when desiging and presenting slides.
- FOTE 2008: FOTE
- About - OLPC Friends
- Opening Up Education - Table of Contents - The MIT Press
- Opening Up Education available « Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
- Diaries of a Core Maintainer #4: We need farmers and pirates! | webchick.net
- About - OLPC Friends
- great post on how to help opensource projects
- Digital Media and Learning Competition
- Massive Linux handout set for French schools | Tech News on ZDNet
- Teaching QT and KDE programming - Offtopic - KDE-Forum.org
- FLOSSimpact
- Committee Meeting 18 September 2008 - Minutes (redacted) | LUV
- CUE
- Google For Educators
- ZaReason, Inc.
- Massive Linux handout set for French schools | Tech News on ZDNet
- Selling Ubuntu systems! including the eep.
- Donna Benjamin K-12 Open Minds 2008, stevehargadon Ustream.TV: . Education
- Donna Benjamin K-12 Open Minds 2008 @ Ustream.TV: . Education
- Businesses Can Win the Competition Against Open-Source Technology
- STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS—How can a business compete with a free product? It’s not easy, and it’s more than just a theoretical question. U.S. newspapers are finding it difficult to compete with free news and the commentary of bloggers and other internet sources. And in the software world, the rise of open source products, which are available for free on the internet, is reshaping the technology industry.
- NSW pulls out of school computers program | Australian IT
- K12 openminds conference | Creative Contingencies Pty. Ltd.
- References for Donna Benjamin's keynote at the K12 Open Minds Conference on 26 September 2008.
- Linux.com :: Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model
- Open Educational Resources Handbook for Educators Version 1.0 by Seth Gurell (Book) in Education & Language
- The OER Handbook is an introductory guide for educators to the Open Education movement. The handbook is arranged along the "OER Lifecycle:" Find, Compose, Adapt, Use and Share.
- p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Niue: One Laptop Per Child for every kid!
- SpringerLink - Journal Article
- The challenges of teaching computer programming
- Free and Open Source Software - School Computing
- Becta green lights open source software in schools, at last • The Register
- SpringerLink - Journal Article
- The Sirius Corporation revealed yesterday that it was among 12 software suppliers to have been awarded places on the £80m Software for Educational Institutions Framework (SEIF) agreement.
- Linux.com :: FastMailMerge rationalizes OpenOffice.org Merge functions
- an extension that makes mailmerge easy? Must check this out.
- Techworld - Linux.conf.au lineup ready to go
- “There’s one on open source databases; the Linux Kernel; system administration, virtualization; a Linux Chicks conference; Myth TV; general Linux gaming; mobile devices; multimedia; one called 'Free As In Freedom' which is of course about the philosophy of open source; and there’s one on the business of open source software, which is becoming more and more important for developers to understand the business side of things as large commercial players get involved.â€
- Deployment Guide/Teacher Preparation Student Facilitation - OLPC
- The most important aspect of teacher preparation is in regard to how children learn. Educators have long recognized that children learn best when they are active, when they pursue their own interests, and when they participate in cultures of knowledge and engagement. With 1-to-1 access to connected laptops, children actively engage in knowledge construction and are not limited to passive reception of information.
- Nepal: Teacher Preparation - OLPC
- The teacher training package aims to empower teachers to integrate ICT-based educational materials in the teaching-learning process so that they can independently design and implement lesson plans incorporating ICT-based materials.
The training consists of two major segments: a) a 4 day intensive residential, out-of-school training that focuses on giving the teachers hands on experience in integrating digital educational materials and ICT-based teaching approaches in the regular classroom instruction process and b) a 3 day training in the teachers’ regular classrooms where they get to implement the integrated lesson plans they developed during the 4 day residential training. - Frequently Asked Questions
- Open-source licensing allows educators to rapidly improve materials based on feedback from teachers and students. With copyrighted materials, changes can only be made by the copyright holder.
- Teacher Preparation Workshop - OLPC Pakistan
- Most teachers believed that the cause of poor quality of education is due to lack of understanding by the children because schools emphasize rote learning a by product of instructional method of education
# They maintained that that the quality of education can be improved by Preparing teachers - Planet Software Freedom Day
- Information about all of the learning standards being developed - Learnativity.com
- European Commission - Education - lifelong learning programme - Comenius: Europe in the classroom
- OLPC Origin: Bittersweet Success and Future of the XO Laptop
- Australia’s Digital Education Revolution? « Parallel Divergence
- Information about all of the learning standards being developed - Learnativity.com
- The problem is not sourcing or delivering the Notebooks. The problem is not the required wireless access, nor the Internet bandwidth, nor the battery life, nor the software and not even the warranty or on-site support nor the ongoing reimaging needs. All of these minor concerns can be overcome. From a pure ICT perspective, the job is not difficult - it just needs money, and it seems there’s plenty of that.
The real problems are not technical problems at all - they are all social problems. - IT revolution sting may hit schools - National - theage.com.au
- 'Digital revolution' schools revealed | theage.com.au
- Media Centre - The Hon Julia Gillard MP - Digital Education Revolution, Age Pension, Henry Review, recruiting non-teaching graduates, Western Australian election
- A Digital Education Revolution - Realising the possibilities, managing the realities - education.au
- E-Paati and E-Paath: Making OLPC Our Own
- 'Digital revolution' schools revealed | theage.com.au
- So often ideas and initiatives that come from the West are pre-packaged and controlled. With XO’s we can localize the Sugar interface, develop activities that accord to our needs and culture. Paati in Nepali means "board" as in blackboard (kalopaati) and "gathering place or public shelter" So in Nepal - the XO is called E-Paati for electronic learning platform.
- OLPC Pakistan, Report 3 - OLPC
- Their hunger for knowledge is the same as their hunger for food. The school was shut down by the building owner who couldn't keep up with the expenses it generated.
So the children of the school took the initiative to create an OLPC XO Club. - Teacher Preparation Workshop model - OLPC
- Teachers Workshop lesson plan for introducing OLPCs
- softwarefreedomday.eu - netherlands
- Software Freedom Day New Zealand
- Software Freedom Day Singapore
- Microsoft Seeks to Shatter 'Walls'
- Software Freedom Day New Zealand
- "Microsoft will spend an estimated $300 million on the overall brand-building effort." Free and Open Source Software doesn't tend to spend money on brand-building. Microsoft's customers pay for Microsoft's advertising. That's a point worth remembering.
- Software Freedom Day 2008: Updated | tuxmachines.org
- Klog: Kathy Reid’s Blog » Preparations for Software Freedom Day Melbourne are in full swing
- Software Freedom Day 2008 | Linux Australia
- Software Freedom Day 2008 | LUV
- Klog: Kathy Reid’s Blog » Preparations for Software Freedom Day Melbourne are in full swing
- Software Freedom Day Melbourne is supported by The Victorian Government
- iTWire - Software Freedom Day 2008
- The Melbourne event is also sponsored by the Victorian Government through Multimedia Victoria.
- Taking Programming into Kindergartens
- Teaching Kids to Program, or Don't Try to Teach 8-Year-Olds Java Subclassing | Advice and Opinion
- Plan Your Software Freedom Day Activities - Lifehacker Australia
- Steven Cahill » Blog Archive » Software Freedom Day
- Special Melbourne
- Software Freedom Day 2008 : geekgirl
- Melbourne Wireless >> about >> news
- Australia gears up for Software Freedom Day 2008 - Software - iTnews Australia
- Teaching Kids to Program, or Don't Try to Teach 8-Year-Olds Java Subclassing | Advice and Opinion
- Melbourne’s Software Freedom Day celebrations are supported by the Victorian Government, and will include a series of free talks, live software demonstrations, and free software giveaways.
- Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) » Archive » EFA to speak at Software Freedom Day, Melbourne
- Software Freedom Day Melbourne | TechEvents.com.au
- That's Melbourne - Software Freedom Day Melbourne
- Computerworld - Open source largest software industry: Alfresco CEO
- kattekrab: SFD2008 - HUGE!
- Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
- Software Freedom Day Melbourne | TechEvents.com.au
- Someone working alone, with really cheap tools, has a reasonable hope of carving out enough of the cognitive surplus, enough of the desire to participate, enough of the collective goodwill of the citizens, to create a resource you couldn't have imagined existing even five years ago.
- Processing 1.0 (BETA)
- Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.
- Digital Audio - with Audacity - Nortel LearniT
- We are constantly hearing different sounds and audio clips, in this section, you will learn how to create a good quality audio file using free software and some minor editing.
- PC grants pay for licence fees | Australian IT
- iTWire - Software Freedom Day 2008: Updated
- Software Freedom Day 2008: Updated
- More Ways That Open Source Could Benefit Schools | OStatic
- Techlearning > > Technology Literacy and the MySpace Generation > March 15, 2007
- Singapore's and Korea's approaches to teaching math
- Australia gears up for Software Freedom Day 2008 - Software - iTnews Australia
- Melbourne’s Software Freedom Day celebrations are supported by the Victorian Government, and will include a series of free talks, live software demonstrations, and free software giveaways.
- Open Source Software in Education | Educause Quarterly
- Conference Management | Planning a Conferencing Event
- An Interview with an Extremadura Developer: Bringing Linux to the Masses | Bringing Linux to the Masses
- Empowerment Introduction | The Empowerment
- Conference Management | Planning a Conferencing Event
- this looks a little nutty - but has interesting stuff
- Borders_report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
- Borders in Cyberspace: conflicting public sector information policies and their economic impacts
- Power of Information Task Force
- Conduct a Sales Forecast
- A sales forecast is a prediction based on past sales performance and an analysis of expected market conditions. The true value in making a forecast is that it forces us to look at the future objectively. The company that takes note of the past stays aware of the present and precisely analyzes that information to see into the future.
- CK-12 - Next Generation Textbooks
- Digital Photography School — Digital Photography Tips for You
- ODEPO Project - ccLearn
- Digital Photography School — Digital Photography Tips for You
- Open Database of Educational Projects and Organizations (ODEPO)
- One Laptop Per Child News
- what we should be doing is helping the children of the world learn these hard to learn things. Equal rights is a really good one to help children learn. No culture in the world is particularly good at it.
- OLPC Peru/Arahuay - OLPC
- Teachers would comment on their own experiences with the activities that they did with their students, if they felt comfortable with the laptops, if they had noticed something remarkable or something to be improved
- YouTube - FutureInternet's Channel
- Home: Future Internet
- Public Sector Information | Europa - Information Society
- Home: Future Internet
- Public Sector Information (PSI) are documents, databases and other information (meteorological information, digital maps, traffic data, etc.) produced, collected, stored, etc. by public sector bodies.
- HASTAC welcomes Howard Rheingold for a discussion on participatory learning | HASTAC
- Tectonic » Where have all the usergroups gone?
- Listing African linux user groups - and pondering why many seem to have disappeared.
- Has security become a non-issue for enterprise Open Source? - Latest Features - iTnews Australia
- Resources to support schools - Software Freedom Day Wiki
- Copy & Paste Excel to Wiki Converter
- 2MinuteChallenge.org
- Resources to support schools - Software Freedom Day Wiki
- aargh - why did I just find out about this today?!
- Centre for OpenSource Development | at Central Queensland University
- Centre for OpenSource Development at CQU
- Free and Open Source Software for Education
The open source educational DVD was created as an aid for schools and universities. The catalogue on the OS-school-DVD is aimed at the Key Learning Areas used in Queensland schools as well as more learning areas used at University. - Mark Shuttleworth
- e started speaking in some detail with Nicolas Spalinger of SIL, and Dave Crossland, who has done extensive analysis on the libre font process and dynamics.
- List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots | Electronic Frontier Foundation
- I had NOOOOOO idea.
- Text 2 Mind Map – The text-to-mind-map converter
- WikiMindMap
- Kayuda
- Composica - Web-based e-Learning Authoring
- udutu | online learning simulations made easy
- Saasu.com | NetAccounts - easy online accounting » Automate, Connect and Simplify
- raikar designs: Illustrating rainbow with Tiled clones tool in Inkscape.
- FOSS in School Education
- Ubuntu usability
- iTWire - Being Debian leader can be 'scary at times'
- WikiMindMap
- Technically I think we're the best out there. Instead of people who are paid to do work as a day job, we have people around the world who are working on this because they passionately believe in what they are doing. It may not be the most efficient - we cannot promise a release every 12 months, for example, - but we have people who really want to do things like packaging etc the right way, not just working towards a deadline. We don't necessarily have to do something a particular way - we can do the right thing.
- Inkscape - A Union of Contributions Makes a Difference
- A very interesting new feature that will appear in the 0.39 release is clones. Basically, you can create a copy of a given object that inherits its properties, so that if you change the original, the clone is also modified accordingly. As an example, consider creating a flower with eight cloned petals rotated around the flower's center; tweaking the original petal causes all the cloned petals to similarly change. This feature actually comes straight from the SVG spec, so is a capability required for SVG compliance, but nobody knows of any other drawing apps that have a drawing operation quite like this.
- SAGE-AU slams cost of content filtering - Telecommunications - iTnews Australia
- A 'little bit censored' seems a lot to me like a 'little bit pregnant'," said Gingrich.
... yeah I have to agree. Can we ask our ISP's - hey - no censorship for me please? - Slashdot | Programming As a Part of a Science Education?
- 20+ Video Tutorials for Open Source Applications
- linux.conf.au 2009 shapes up - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
- Educational Freeware Games For Kids And Grown Ups
- Home Page : SEN Teacher ~ Free teaching resources for Special Needs.
- Backchannel Resources / Participatory Media Literacy
- 20+ Video Tutorials for Open Source Applications
- howard rheingold's collection
- Welcome to Brain Friendly Learning
- Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology: Case Studies of Electronic Portfolios for Learning
- sun_h264.avi (video/x-msvideo Object)
- Market Segmentation
- Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008
- MacLibre | Open Source Software Distribution for Mac OS X
- Open Source Mac - Free Mac software, all open-source, all OS X.
- The Decline of Women in Computer Science from 1940-1982 - a knol by Jennifer Taylor
- Center for Teaching, Learning, & Technology: Case Studies of Electronic Portfolios for Learning
- The rule of technology, engineering, and computing has been that “boys invent things, and girls use things that boys inventâ€
- Edinburgh Research Archive : Copyright in the Digital Environment
- Wordie
- Carl Hewitt (http://carlhewitt.info): Corruption of Wikipedia
- Wordie
- fabulous. true. truth here. total truth.
- Open Community / FrontPage
- Information on running user groups, technology events, and communities.
- Education World® : Technology in the Classroom Channel
- Seth's Blog: Are they ready to listen?
- Most people, most of the time, steadfastly refuse to pay attention. The tragic mistake of demographics and media planning is that they overlook the single most important issue: is the person you're talking to ready to listen?
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University
- Leaping the Abyss: Group Genius
- by Gayle Pergamit and Chris Peterson
- Maths and ICT
- annotated link list of ICT maths resources: useful for my fossvels research
- Mathematics Learning
- Ways of learning mathematics
- Techworld - Aussie teams take out Google global marketing challenge
- Ways of learning mathematics
- 63 percent of professors believed the challenge engaged students better than traditional teaching models
- Michael Wesch and the Future of Education
- Wesch "incorporates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class... dynamic presentation from a master teacher"
- Open Source Academy
- Aims to encourage use of Open Source Software by UK local authorities through knowledge sharing and practical advice.
- Linux.com :: Web apps: the next battleground for FOSS?
- The real roadblocks to Linux in education: News - Software - ZDNet Australia
- Procurement management | Digital Education Revolution
- The real roadblocks to Linux in education: News - Software - ZDNet Australia
- open source software—the school downloads open source software, which has usually been developed by a non-commercial group; usually, there is a software licence agreement but no fees are payable
- Computer Science Teachers Association - ACM K-12 CS Model Curriculum
- CSTA K-12 Repository: Home
- Center for Children & Technology
- Exploring Space with Celestia | Linux Journal
- Aussie ICT guidelines embraced as world standard: News - Business - ZDNet Australia
- Opening new doors with Open Source - Cover Story - CRN Australia
- CSTA K-12 Repository: Home
- "Most channel partners should be looking to add some form of Open Source to their kit bag. It’s a combination of being both an opportunity and a risk mitigation." Brian Prentice, vice president Gartner research
- spreed.com Portal - Meet - Present - Share - Train. Instantly!
- Opinion: Year of the penguin - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
- Community to Gilliard: 'Consider Open Source' - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
- ICT: Training of Teachers
- Test your web design in different browsers - Browsershots
- Truth Happens | Truth Happening in Canberra
- Letter to Australian minister for education advocating use of “sub-notebooks†in Australian high schools « Sol Hanna’s Weblog
- FLOSS Advocates Passing Notes to Gillard
- iTWire - Bid to push FOSS in Australian secondary schools
- Techworld - Open source community pushes Canberra on school computer fund
- Linux.com :: One live DVD, one ton of Linux games
- BBC NEWS | Business | Sir Alan on Bill Gates
- Opinion: Year of the penguin - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
- Sir Alan Sugar of Amstrad computers speaks about early PC history
- The other education revolution | The Daily Telegraph
- opinion piece on public / private funding for education - with a focus on the NCSSF
- ISTE NETS 4 S
- The International Society for Technology in Education National Educational Technology Standards for Students
- K-12 Open Minds Conference 25-27 Sep 2008
- 2nd annual International K-12 Open Minds Conference will be held at the downtown Marriott in Indianapolis, USA.
- Computerworld - Why women quit technology careers
- CODE:FREE « Chrisdesign blog
- New Open Source Graphic Design Magazine - very nice. hat tip to ryan lerch for this one.
- Educational Insanity » Blog Archive » Cost effectiveness
- "I’d love to know what prevents open source from making a bigger impact in education." yeah... me too.
- Smart Internet Technology CRC - Home
- looks interesting... must return for a deeper look.
- "Open Access, Open Archives And Open Source in Higher Education"
- Liberation Technology wants to keep information free; Command and Control wants to make the Internet safe for private property.
- Daisaku Ikeda - Creative Education - Overview
- Technology Integration Matrix
- article in the age about fontstruct - a nifty site that lets you build a font online using digital bricks
- Mr. Chase's Room: The Open Source Classroom
- Technology Integration Matrix
- The classroom in which I want to learn and teach is one undergoing constant upgrades and bound by no particular version. No proprietary rights exist to its content, but all educators are fairly acknowledged and credited for their contributions.
- Software Freedom Day Speech 2007: Audio and Transcript [David A. Harding]
- Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications | Linux Journal
- After almost 20 years, Nobody Nowhere gets a face lift. | Donna Williams’ Blog
- Juggling for Geeks - Alpha by lukec -- Revver Online Video Sharing Network
- Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications | Linux Journal
- luke gloss talks about juggling from a geek friendly perspective
- Homemade Juggling Balls - Science Tricks - Surfing Scientist - The Lab
- Trust the abc. Excellent on howto on making juggling balls - followed by good links on how to juggle.
- SciZone - Ontario Science Centre: Make your own juggling balls
- simple instructions for making juggling balls from balloons and rice. Also need - a small bottle, a funnel and scissors.
- How To Juggle 3 Balls
- nice step by step video that shows how to juggle
- Building home linux render cluster
- Amanda McPherson's Linux Foundation blog
- Linux as a platform is the enabling backbone of software as a service and cloud computing.
- Drupal in Education | groups.drupal.org
- CNews: First school open source software packages handed over to teachers
- FontStruct | Build, Share, Download Fonts
- CNews: First school open source software packages handed over to teachers
- holymoley - a web based font creation tool?
- Australians embrace open source browser | NEWS.com.au
- No more stag party!
- ORG Booth HOWTO, Part I
- No more stag party!
- Gold! seems like common sense, but perhaps it isn't. Clearly articulated, on the money.
- The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb
- not perfect. but not bad either.
- Voltaic Systems | Voltaic Generator
- Greenfeet.com - Aluminum Foil - 100% Recycled
- One Laptop Per Child Foundation No Longer a Disruptive Force, Bender Fears; Q&A on His Plans for “Sugar†Interface | Xconomy
- Greenfeet.com - Aluminum Foil - 100% Recycled
- the culture around free software is actually a powerful culture for learning
- No Duty of Care: The Governance of ICT
- The Open Source Census
- Stormy Peters - who keynoted at linux.conf.au this year, is working on this project. Open Sourcers might want to look at getting their projects fingerprints are in the database...
- Open-Sourcing Conferences
- BookletCreator - create a booklet from any PDF document
- No Media Kings » Do-It-Yourself Book Press
- Single-sheet zine layout and design
- Open Source Publishing » Interview with George Williams
- BookletCreator - create a booklet from any PDF document
- GW is the developer of FontForge
- learning in progress …. » the ‘web 2.0′ bubble - shiny, new and thinly stretched across the curriculum
- Bamboo Bike Project
- Marvin Minsky essays - OLPC
- Bamboo Bike Project
- ... reminder that it's an education project...
- Red Hat Magazine | Inside One Laptop per Child: Episode one
- nice video story on the xo team at redhat
- Crikey - 2020: My 200 words - 2020: My 200 words
- participants submit 200 words on 2 questions: Their own idea and more interestingly- Issue you have changed your mind over in last 10 years. What is it? What changed your mind?
- Australia 2020 - Schools Summits
- definately interesting reading - the report from the schools summits.
- Anecdote: 2020 Summit
- Pondering Facilitation styles to be used at the 2020 summit - shawn talks of the value and power of storytelling for communication.
- Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy
- A book written by Ron Goldman & Richard P. Gabriel - available online and also at bookstores in print.
- SteveStreeting.com » Open source adoption; countering the fear and doubt
- "Microsoft is a set menu, open source is an all-you-can-eat buffet. The set menu needs very little thought - you just turn up and take what you’re given. It might be good, it might not, but it’s low-effort because someone else has already lined it all
- University of Melbourne Library Intelligencer
- Linux.com :: Red Hat's business model: the "elevator speech" version (video)
- Red Hat is all about creating enterprise editions of open source products - harnessing the benefits of the iterative innovation to package solutions for customers who need more certainty from the technology stack than the cutting edge of open source devel
- Computerworld - Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware
- Linux.com :: Libre Graphics Meeting raising funds for developer travel
- Mothers Day Cruise | Pleasure Boat Cruises
- Linux.com :: Libre Graphics Meeting raising funds for developer travel
- Just updated the Pleasure Boat Cruises Mothers Day web page - I created the artwork in inkscape. It's nice to be able to export elements to create a suite of images like this.
- reCAPTCHA: Stop Spam, Read Books
- This is brilliant. Foil spammers - but do something productive in the process.Instead of gibberish - recaptcha offers undecipherable words from scanned texts to utilise that moment of human cognition instead of wasting it. Niiice.
- Linux.com :: New AbiWord looks solid but suffers from age-old Linux problem
- It's probably a little unfair to compare AbiWord with the more full-featured OpenOffice.org Writer, but AbiWord is the only real word processor that fills the void between vanilla text editors and OOo Writer.
- iTWire - Open source professional services app goes hosted
- US software lock-ins harm local bidders | Australian IT
- Open source the biggest potential game changer for government: Senator Lundy - Linux & Open Source - iTnews Australia
- US software lock-ins harm local bidders | Australian IT
- Dr Andrew Tridgell warned that innovation in IT risks being nobbled due to a patent law framework which can't accommodate similar ideas being developed independently. "The key issue that needs to be solved is independent invention. IP doesn't cope with th
- Daylight saving test for pollies | Australian IT
- Last week's events highlight the importance of ICT in our daily lives and what happens when ICT is not considered in decision making. The daylight saving issue shows technology is intrinsic and pervades business & government
- Big players begin taking up open source | Australian IT
- "Users tell us that warring vendors not talking to one another makes their lives difficult. We're making moves to improve interoperability removing barriers from IT users and making users' lives easier," says Sun GNU/Linux strategy group manager Barton Ge
- Michael Roux | View from the summit
- "Good ideas are not private property, nor are they the exclusive domain of one political party, ideology or segment of society."
- Computerworld - Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware
- Computerworld - Ubuntu breathes new life into school's abandoned hardware
- Westall is supporting the open source spirit by providing information about the school's work and image to other schools
- Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
- Identifont - Identify fonts by appearance, find fonts by name
- The Australian Open Source Industry & Community Report
- Identifont - Identify fonts by appearance, find fonts by name
- The Waugh Partners Census is out!
- Gentium: Providing Type to the World
- an interview with the designer of Gentium. I've always thought it was a pretty font - this article talks about it's soul
- WhatTheFont : MyFonts
- this blew me away. Very useful - upload a pic of a font you can't identify - and it runs it past a database and tells you what the font is. W00T
- Network diagrams & flow charts with Open Source software.
- Support the Libre Graphics Meeting Sadly - Pledgie is dead. Do you want to read about that?
- LGM is raising cash to send developers to the LGM in Poland in May.
- dafont.com
- mmmm fonts
- Pia Frauss -- Fonts
- tra la la - perusing fonts.
- You are the platform | Quinn Norton
- Body Hacking - Quinn's presentation from O'Reilly's eTech conf.
Phwoar! - ETech 2008 — O'Reilly Conferences, March 03 - 06, 2008, San Diego, CA
- "If you can't open it, you don't own it." <= goal for '09 - be at this conference.
- Why ETech is O'Reilly's Most Important Conference - O'Reilly Radar
- Again and again, the business world seems to be surprised when hackers and enthusiasts up-end the futures so confidently predicted by their market research firms and stock market pundits.
- Humanitarian projects and open source: Working together to revitalize computer sciences
- Creative Economy Online
- thanks to Kim Weatherall for pointing out this site.
- Public comment sought on National Broadband Network | Senator Stephen Conroy | DBCDE
- Written submissions should be provided to the panel by 30 March 2008, and can be forwarded by email to nationalbroadbandnetwork@dbcde.gov.au (Dept Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy)
- Open source roundtable: Robert Sutor | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2008-03-24 | By Jason Snyder
- "We'll know open source has really arrived when every reputable business school spends a significant amount of time educating its students about the business models around open source. The new challenges and pressures will arise because of business issues
- Brits in the bad books - Opinion - theage.com.au
- Open Source Is Just Economics | Links
- by solving your common problem together, you reduce your costs. There is absolutely no point in financing five different companies to produce five different products that don’t quite do what you want - far better to tweak the open source thing to do exa
- iWorks XML format vs ODF vs OOXML preliminary thoughts « CyberTech Rambler
- The most interesting part is index.xml.gz. I ungzipped it using standard tool and as expected, it is Apple’s own XML description of the file. What is surprising and refreshing is, by using words in my document and filenames for the pictures as keywords,
- Stages of Open Source Evolution | Sulamita
- Sulamata is right on the money - a big shame she didn't make it to linux.conf.au this year
- Microsoft Office Drops Support For Older File Formats | Compiler from Wired.com
- Naturally, there’s an alternative which is somewhat easier (and free): just grab a copy of OpenOffice which can handle the older file formats. Once you’ve got them open, now might be a good time to convert them to ODF documents lest Office 2017 decide
- Microsoft Word 5.1 for Mac OS X
- If only it were true! But it's an April fool's posting from 2003...
- Applelinks.com Document File Formats; Even Backed Up, How Long Will Your Data Be Accessible?
- Lazy Web - I too have a bunch of Word5.1 for Mac files archived somewhere - I'd like to be able to access them without having to crank up an old mac - save 'em as RTF, then open in a modern WP and save as ODF. Is there a converter out there for linux?
- Melbourne - Earth Hour 2008
- Melbourne will do Earth Hour like no other city.
- Information about Earth Hour 2008, history, 2007
- Geek Speak Women | speak.net.nz
- speak.net.nz is a simple directory and connections system to help technical women speakers and event organisers to find each other - put together by the fabulatte brenda and friends at catalyst
- BoDo: Business of Design online
- Digital Life - laptop news and articles
- Final Word: "It seems that the only way Microsoft can hope to get people using its software on this new class of low-cost, ultraportable machines is by going fully open source itself."
- It's time to overhaul copyright law | Technology | guardian.co.uk
- "A2K is at the top of the WIPO agenda. It's the first breath of sanity in the copyright debate. Let's hope it's not the last one."
- Cut & Fold a Paper Tux | linux-en-touraine.org
- A List Apart: Articles: They Shoot Browsers, Don't They?
- urggh and grrrr. building to standards. We have regs for buildings... a house built to code should withstand certain stresses. Web sites built to standards should render properly in all web browsers. Bad browsers make allowances - like corrupt building
- Parallel Thinking | The de Bono Group
- Background on the how and why of 6 thinking hats. Useful. brief-ish.
- kattekrab @ Open Clip Art Library
- just my stuff at openclipart - everything is public domain so people are totally free to use the artwork in any way they wish
- urlgreyhot | michael angeles
- a nice looking drupal site - this chap is a UX AI type of person
- webpodge » Blog Archive » 8 Drupal Articles you should read
- worth a follow up
- Typeforge - Collaborative Type Design - Home
- oooh err - typography nerds ahoy!
- The Total Growth of Open Source
- nice. real data. could be useful.
- Open Source Industry Australia - Register of Members
- OSIA's member register is online!
- Sentenc.es - A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email
- Where's the "Working" in Social Networking? - Harvard Business Online's Tom Davenport
- Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
- Where's the "Working" in Social Networking? - Harvard Business Online's Tom Davenport
- Interesting. I just started a LinkedIn group for OSIA members and was asked "what have you found the benefits of such a group to be?" I haven't got an answer - so I googled "the value of social networking sites" - and followed a link to this site - looks
- IDABC - EU: Schools increase use of Open Source
- Schools using GNU/Linux or other Open Source systems for desktop PCs are no longer rare, though in many countries their numbers are very low. Not so in India, Macedonia, the Philippines, Russia and Turkey, where hundreds of thousands of pupils are becomin
- Memories for Life
- The Memories for Life network, supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) , includes around 30 UK academics from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, information science and sociology.
- World Economic Forum - Global map of digital inclusion
- thought you might find this interesting... perhaps useful in the classroom?
- copyrightfriendly » home
- Aussie coders not in open source for the money - News - Builder AU
- World Maths Day
- Aussie coders not in open source for the money - News - Builder AU
- This is sponsored or hosted by mathletics - looks like a great initiative - unfortunately the website is entirely flash driven - so is possibly not super-accessible to all.
- Google behind Photoshop's new Linux compatibility
- ... closed apps on an open platform - some may disagree - but for certain classes of user the platform is irrelevant. They would seriously benefit from the security and stability of Linux on commodity hardware, but their skillset and tools are tied to the
- Computerworld - From counterculture flag to corporate gold star
- Great article on the value of linux expertise in the corporate world. Linux people are creative problem solvers with open minds, willing to share their thoughts with others to find the right solution Beware pitfalls when linux people move on and take thei
- St Valentine's Day | Pleasure Boat Cruises
- Computerworld - The world according to Linus
- Computerworld - 23,000 Linux PCs forge education revolution in Philippines
- Computerworld - KDE king Seigo talks life, free software and reinventing the desktop
- Green Data Center Blog: Linux Ready to go Green, next is Windows vs. Linux comparison?
- Computerworld - The world according to Linus
- to do big power savings in a green data center you need a power management system which works across multiple systems. The amount of power you'll be able to save on individual machines is best when you can turn them off.
- Vox Pop: What are the LCA “must see†sessions? | The Open Source Report
- gedda.info » Off to LCA! :: Rodney Gedda’s piece of the Web
- I should also say a big thanks to the Mel8ourne marketing team who have done an excellent job promoting this year’s event. Everything from the Web site to the media relations has been spot on.
- awww - thanks Rodney :) - linux.conf.au set to kick off in Melbourne - Software - www.itnews.com.au
- "I think it’s no accident that the kernel has been timed to be released just before LCA,†Benjamin said. “I imagine that it will generate some interest – certainly among the hardcore kernel developers who will have been working towards this furiou
- Open Day at linux.conf.au | That's Melbourne
- A Free Event for everyone to discover great technologies, learn about Free and Open Source Software and meet the community that develops it. Visit a range of exhibitors, hear some talks, enter competitions and meet some great people and projects along the
- Liveblogging from Linux.conf.au 2008
- Sarah Stokely has started up The Open Source Report - and LCA will be the first major event this new news source will cover. Cool.
- Regarding the Laptop Revolution - OLPC
- The distinction between learning and teaching is critical. The omission of the word learning in Cuban’s critique is significant and demonstrates the influence of the grammar of school. Naturally, teaching is a critical component of learning. But teachin
- openQRM at linux.conf.au in Melbourne | NetworkWorld.com Community
- The openQRM talk will be part of LCA2008's virtualization miniconf held on Monday, 28.1.2008. Details about the virtualization miniconf are available at http://virtminiconf.linux.hp.com/.
- The Linux Index » Matthew Garrett: The weather
- In a fortnight I’ll be heading to Linux.conf.au to discuss why suspend to disk doesn’t work, can’t be made to work in its current form and that everyone who thinks it currently does is under some form of mass delusion.
- Computerworld - Riding the open source Storm
- Computerworld - Bruce Almighty: Schneier preaches security to Linux faithful
- Linux Online - linux.conf.au: The house full sign is up
- Create A Graph
- Computerworld - Bruce Almighty: Schneier preaches security to Linux faithful
- allows you to enter data, tweak settings and output graphs in a range of formats - including SVG which means it can be opened in Inkscape and further tweaked and customised. V. Nice - just wish there was a way to upload data instead of re-keying it.
- NonProfit Open Source Initiative | Bridging the gap between the nonprofit and open source communities
- oooh - good one - must come back to this and review more fully.
- OSS Watch - Who contributes to open source software? And why do they give it away?
- good resource for a FAQ
- Commons Group article - Choosing Open Source: A guide for civil society organizations
- A guide aimed at non-profit managers and others making decisions about high level technologies for their organisations. "Open source: the electronic equivalent of generic drugs" <= nice quote.
- UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog: September 2007 Archives
- Chaos Astrology - Bringing order out of chaos. An exploration into the interconnected nature of the Universe.
- Linux.com :: Learn OOP while creating 3-D animations with Alice
- Chaos Astrology - Bringing order out of chaos. An exploration into the interconnected nature of the Universe.
- Alice helps students understand the control structure and logic of programming instead of being confused by the syntax.
- Women Who Tech | Resources
- Great collection of links and info for women in technology
- iTWire | linux.conf.au: The house full sign is up
- While I never doubted we would have a full house, I'm surprised we sold out before Christmas. So we'll be shifting our promotional efforts towards Open Day on February 2 - because that is free, and open to the public.
- Five simple steps to better typography : Journal : Mark Boulton
- Sponsors for linux.conf.au 2008
- Emperor: HP and IBM - King: Google, Multimedia Victoria and The Linux Foundation - Royal: Catalyst IT, vmware, Canonical and Intel - Supporting Sponsors: Novell, Red Hat, Trolltech and Oracle - Fairy Penguin: Open Query and Fossmart - Supporting Partners:
- iTWire - OLPC, UNICEF, Google bring children's own stories to web
- "Information technologies can help young people around the world learn more about each other," said UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman. "Our Stories will promote dialogue across borders and cultures and give young people a voice on a wide range of issu
- iTWire - linux.conf.au: Games Linux users play
- Profile of Tim 'Mithro' Ansell organising the Gaming mini-conf being held at the University of Melbourne on January 29 as part of linux.conf.au 2008
- ivan krstić · code culture » First OLPC deployment: now it’s real.
- Amanda McPherson · Pay Pal’s use of Linux
- "Our developers love Linux. People are far more innovative and engaged when they work on what they love." Amanda quotes Matthew Mengerinkm
- Computerworld - Money-saving tips for SMBs
- The most popular and cost effective free software application is the OpenOffice suite, ... requires less retraining time going from MS Office 2003 to OpenOffice than from MS Office 2003 to Office 2007.
- Bruce Schneier to speak at Linux.conf.au | Lifehacker Australia
- LCA is probably Australia's largest open source technical conference. I spoke with conference organiser Donna Benjamin this week and she told me they've closed early bird registrations and the conference is on track to selling out, with 2/3 of the tickets
- Tony Forster: Games Programming Cluster at VITTA
- Tony blogs about the VITTA conference with videos of joel stanleys talk. Cool!
- Evolution of Communication
- looks interesting... must come back to read the detail
- Public Schools, Open Source Software and Linux « Richard F Crawley III
- linux.conf.au 2008 - Linux Magazine | KatteKrab
- linux magazine covers world's best linux conference http://linux.conf.au/
- Rethinking Education - You Say You Want a Revolution? The 2007 VITTA Annual Conference and Expo | TechEvents.com.au
- linux.conf.au 2008 - Registrations Open! | KatteKrab
- http://www.linux.conf.au - Registrations now open - 2nd Keynote announced - Stormy Peters says "it's one of those conferences that combines the passion of open source with the people that really make it happen"
- Linux.com :: Taoism of open source
- "Soft power is like water," Lao-tzu explained in his book, Tao Te Ching. A single water drop is powerless, but numerous water drops are torrential. Likewise, a single open source participant counts for little, but numerous participants make the open sourc
- A List Apart: Articles: Automatic Magazine Layout
- An open-source web moocher comes clean | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
- VITTA - supporting ICT educators: Rethinking Education: You say you want a revolution?
- Coming soon to kindergarten class: antipiracy ed | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
- Free Adobe CS3 alternatives - Internet Applications Software
- An open-source web moocher comes clean | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
- GIMP, inkscape, jahshaka, kompozer, audacity, synfig, scribus - What we're seeing in open-source software and freeware development today is beyond impressive. No longer content to rely on expensive commercial products, programmers are taking a second look
- A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
- Linux.com::Why isn't Penelope supported on Linux?
- It's a matter of finding the right help for the job... we don't really have the Linux experience to feel confident in making Linux releases. We'd be delighted if somebody wanted to contribute their time to helping us get it right for Linux - Jeff Beckley
- Conference Organizing Distribution | groups.drupal.org
- LinuxWorld | OSIA takes issue with OOXML, lobbies Standards Australia
- Naomi Hamilton, Computerworld - The Open Source Industry of Australia ( http://www.osia.net.au ) has formally contacted Standards Australia, requesting that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) format not be endorsed by the body as an ISO standard.
- LinuxTracker :: Details for torrent "OpenCD 07.09"
- latest version of OpenCD now available - they've trimmed the back end of the disc and reduced the size by a substantial 90MB - making this the smallest OpenCD ever! more at http://www.theopencd.org/
- Selling software that sells itself: An interview with Matt Asay - LinuxWorld
- Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X: CIO John Halamka Tests Ubuntu
- Ubuntu: well supported, intuitive operating system offering great flexibility and a solid update management system... the OS met all of his criteria and exceeded his expectations.
- Hackety Hack: the Reality of...
- Hackety Hack — a digital parallel to the work of Piaget?
- bubbl.us - free web application for brainstorming online
- Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online
- The Elders :: theElders.org
- Red Hat Magazine | Red Hat High 2007: Update
- Red Hat High is a program that seeks to connect kids with technologies that will help to develop those kinds of creative passions using tools that allow kids to be immediately creative.
- OSS Watch - Moodle: a case study in sustainability
- This case study, examining the Moodle project, has been written by Martin Dougiamas, Managing Director, Moodle Pty Ltd.
- Confessions Of A Ripper: MP3, Digital Rights Management And The Devil of Disintermediation
- Can 19th century models of intellectual property rights vested in a named author with time limitations, licensing rights and institutional redress mechanisms work at all in the 21st century?
- Liberation Fonts
- How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories | OEDb
- Open source invading Australian education - LinuxWorld
- How the Open Source Movement Has Changed Education: 10 Success Stories | OEDb
- "... we are doing our students a disservice if we don't expose them to learning about open source software"
- LectureOne - intro to python
- learning python » Blog Archive » Creating a Game in Python Using PyGame - Introduction
- About OSOSS | OSOSS
- learning python » Blog Archive » Creating a Game in Python Using PyGame - Introduction
- Open Source for government in the Netherlands
- Scaling with MySQL replication | Dries Buytaert
- A List Apart: Articles: Human-to-Human Design
- An experience director must pull together content, formulate an interactive approach and style, and orchestrate the creative elements in which to propel the story.
- myImager.com - Your Everything Online Image Editor
- Presentation Tips
- Delivering your presentation effectively involves using a proven four-step process: Plan, Prepare, Practice, and Present.
- Dutch museums put unwanted art on eBay - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
- She said a "big part" of the works on sale were produced under a government scheme to support Dutch artists in the 1980s. In exchange for a living allowance the artists had to produce a certain number of works for the state. - The Dutch - 'paint for the
- When Melbourne was Australia’s capital city : The Voice : News : The University of Melbourne
- Melbourne was the capital city of Australia from 1901 to 1927. It was a small town where extraordinary people did amazing things... What mattered, and matters still, was not the size of the town, or its location, but the size of people’s thoughts.
- Infinite Thinking Machine
- Conference 2.0 (how the Read/Write Web is changing the conference
- Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!
- Schneier on Security: Tactics, Targets, and Objectives
- Lions don't care who or what they eat; to a lion, you're just a conveniently packaged bag of protein.
Bruce Schneier Illustrating his point that attackers don't care about their targets. - Alan Kay: Education in the Digital Age
- Video: "I don't want a global village, I want a global civilisation"
- Southern Cross wins prestigious architecture award - National - theage.com.au
- LOVE it or hate, its distinctive wavy roof has become a Melbourne landmark. And now Southern Cross Station has been judged the best new building in … well, most of the world, by an esteemed panel of enraptured British architects.
- ONLamp.com -- There Is No Open Source Community
- The push of software commoditization and the pull of customer demands have created a perfect storm for open source software.
- NAB Solstice Antarctica
- Solstice Antarctica is an Antarctic-themed art, science and entertainment experience that will celebrate the winter solstice and Australia’s Antarctic connections
- the road to infinite bliss: Winter Solstice
- stillhq.com : Mikal, a geek from Canberra living in Silicon Valley
- Implementing parental filters with MythTV
- certifiedwaif: Schools to install digital whiteboards
- interesting commentary - personal anecdote on IWbs and learning
- Cracking the e-learning whip! - Flex e-News Article
- The 'PUT THE HARD WORD ON 'EM' national campaign gives teenagers and learners of all ages a chance to tell their teachers and trainers about what, where, when and how they want to learn. Teachers and trainers can encourage their students to log on to http
- Scripting Second Life with Rational Application Developer
- www.reallylinux.com - Website for Linux Beginners
- Linux News: Software: It's Time to Consider Open Source Software, Part 1
- www.reallylinux.com - Website for Linux Beginners
- In recent years, however, open source Latest News about open source software developers have released a wide range of end-user applications that can replace most of the applications currently used in K-12 classrooms.
- csunplugged.org
- Free Classroom Posters from Google
- download free PDF posters - print 'em out, stick 'em up.
- IBM software to help contain bird flu epidemic - Technology - theage.com.au
- IBM's open-source Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) software is available to scientists, researchers and public health protectors worldwide through the nonprofit Eclipse Foundation
- CIDR - Course Design
- An effective course design begins with asking questions in order to understand who your students are, deciding what you want them to learn, determining how you will measure whether students are learning, and planning activities, assignments and materials
- linux.conf.au 2008
- list of CFP announcements
- Interview - Gizzy Electricteeth, IBM
- presentations // announcement - linux.conf.au 2008 | 28 Jan - 2 Feb | LCA2008 in MEL8OURNE
- Drupal submissions for Linux.conf.au | groups.drupal.org
- mel8ourne - linux.conf.aucall for presentations
- KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
- presentations // announcement - linux.conf.au 2008 | 28 Jan - 2 Feb | LCA2008 in MEL8OURNE
- it is time for education strategy to be more proactive, and to pay more attention to how the world is changing - use this map to spark your own thinking, and provoke dialogue and discussion
- Wiki Pedagogy
- Pedagogical experimentation with Wikis - challenge traditional notions of control, authorship, editing, and publishing. Wikis work most effectively when students can assert meaningful autonomy over the process.
- Some Randomish Thoughts on draft 3 of GPL version 3
- Brendan Scott explains GPL3
- The Digital Universe - Digital Universe Foundation
- hmmm - this looks interesting....
- Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software - The MIT Press
- Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software
- WordNet - Princeton University Cognitive Science Laboratory
- WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by
- famfamfam.com: Silk Icons
- handy for creating web apps
- MindMeister - think together
- Google has acquired JotSpot
- Open Sources | InfoWorld | Reading between the lines with Bill Hilf: Microsoft must really be hurting | May 13, 2007 09:28 AM | By Matt Asay
- Google has acquired JotSpot
- 100% of the Global 2000 is running Linux.
- The "View Source" key
- OPEN CHANNEL - Video Slam
- Over a period of 48 hours, from Sunday May 13, 10am to Monday May 14, 8pm, filmmakers, writers, programmers, sound and video artists will slam out a 10-minute digital short from content found largely on the Web. Video Slam will explore the use of Creative
- Drupal SEO is Easy | DevBee
- eLearn: Can the "$100 Laptop" Change the World?
- ItrainOnline
- linux.conf.au 2008
- eLearn: Can the "$100 Laptop" Change the World?
- linux.conf.au is Australia's annual linux conference. It is fun, informal and seriously technical.
- Michael Davies' Blog
- InfoWorld Video | InfoWorld | 100 Laptop
- cute video showing the OLPC at LCA this year
- In2Edu - Education:Teacher resources, lesson plans, thematic integrated units... the best
- New Zealand based site with ICT for education resources, lesson plans and strategies.
- :: Reviews : The Future of Linux is in Schools, Not in the Office
- ICTGCSE - The number 1 resource for ICT education on the net
- This looks like a great resource - worth a good going over.
- python: Red Hat 108
- Python is emerging as the leading object-oriented, general purpose programming for teaching programming, and it's ease of use and programming efficiency have extended it into the general-purpose, commercial appliction space. Whether you're a CS student ju
- Students Build Linux-based Sentry Robot
- Students Build Linux-based Sentry Robot
- Temporally Relevant - The Meaning Economy
- Open open open! Open source, open distributed grids, open algorithms, open rankings, open networks of people cooperating to provide resources. The future of search is in open cooperation (and competition) based on a Meaning Economy, create meaning, exchan
- Infinite Thinking Machine - The Open Minds Momentum - Lucie deLaBruere
- "And when visionaries like Australia's Donna Benjamin bring the spirit of The Cape Town Open Education Declaration and her incredible facilitation skills to such a group, then perhaps the mavens, connectors, and salesmen of Open Source in Education are tipping the scales." *blush*
- CIO - Blogger spat rages over Sierra 'death threats'
- Coding Horror: Creating User Friendly 404 Pages
- Coding Horror: Learning on the Battlefield
- Seth's Blog: Art that's not for sale
- Coding Horror: Creating User Friendly 404 Pages
- Ideas that spread, win.
- Hackers Lose a Patron Saint - St Jude
- “UN resolutions don’t lead to anything†« Women UNlimited
- The UN doesn’t do magic. Resolutions and international standards are tools for NGOs and ordinary citizens to pressure their governments with. Some places that’s more difficult and dangerous than others. I’m not saying the UN process is perfect. The
- Computerworld - LinuxChix reshuffles its Australian chapters
- http://au.linuxchix.org - There's a growing feeling that now we've got this far in connecting women in Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth with the established Sydney and Melbourne groups, there must be more of us out there.
- 10 Drupal Modules You Can't Live Without | Nick Lewis: The Blog
- humans are monkeys -- and monkeys have an easier time navigating in visually rich enviroments, as opposed to enviroments inspired by manilla folders, and tax forms
- linuxchix.org.nz
- LinuxChix NZ is a community for women who like Linux, and for women and men who want to support women in computing.
- AussieChix | :: Happy International Women's Day!
- AussieChix is the Australian chapter of LinuxChix, aimed at providing ways for women living in Australia to meet each other, talk about, and get involved in Linux, Free Software and related things.
- Linux.com | Australia's LinuxChix unite to form AussieChix
- Following discussions at the Linux.Conf.Au conference in Sydney in January, members realised that a national group would better serve the country. Last month the groups united to form AussieChix, a new nationwide chapter that makes the group more accommod
- LawFont » Notice and takedown, Australian-style
- XTech 2007 schedule: behind the scenes
- useful report on how to process call for papers
- Seven steps to remarkable customer service - Joel on Software
- Free for all - web - Technology - theage.com.au
- OpenOffice is available for Windows, Mac and Linux PCs, with 100 per cent document compatibility between those systems - something Microsoft has yet to achieve.
- Alpha Males, Open Source, and Women
- Has open source lost its halo? - Java World
- numbers of such accidental open sourcers, as opposed to true believers, will continue to increase, because in this age of easily-developed and delivered software, "freemium" business models—meaning a service with a free entry point and a more expensive
- Linux.com | Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars
- Welcome to wonderful, wacky, never-dull world of free and open source software, where in spite of all the posturing and debate, the answer is always best couched in code.
- SKETCHR - Draw Online!
- draw .svg online - save locally.
- Shallow Thoughts: The Fibonacci Spiral and the Nautilus
- "Don't believe everything you read" is always a good lesson for high schoolers ... and it's just as relevant for us adults as well.
Akkana Peck - YouTube - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
- The Machine is Us/ing Us
- Linux.com | Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia
- ConsortiumInfo.org - The Contradictory Nature of OOXML (Part II) – 19 Nations Respond
- This demonstrates the degree to which the world has come to appreciate the importance of ensuring the long-term accessibility of its historical record, as well as the inadvisability of entrusting that heritage to a single vendor or software program. Count
- Just Say No to .doc! ODF Converter Now Available for MS Word | Kairosnews
- OpenDocument Viewer | OpenDocument Fellowship
- Open Sources | InfoWorld | Open source: pragmatism buys in | January 28, 2007 03:37 PM | By Matt Asay
- OpenDocument Viewer | OpenDocument Fellowship
- Early on, in short, a market begs for clarity over excellence. As it matures, it demands excellence (and retains clarity through standards). In software, we are shedding the proprietary phase and moving into a phase focused on product excellence, increasi
- Important vs Urgent Triage
- all interruptions should be categorised like this too. ;)
- Opening minds in the office - BizTech - Technology - theage.com.au
- OpenOffice poses a greater threat to Microsoft than the Linux open source operating system, says Liam Gunson, an analyst with IT advisory firm IDC, but Microsoft still has little to fear.
- IT Manager's Journal :: FOSS consulting offers special advantages and challenges
- A clear sign that free and open source software (FOSS) has become mainstream is the growing number of small consultants who specialize in it
- Accessibility in the “Participation Ageâ€
- Open source solutions enable you to shape and refine the tools you need yourself.
- Peter Korn's Weblog
- LinuxWorld | Home grown software company takes a squiz at open source
- Open Source Industry Australia director Donna Benjamin, welcomed the move to adopt an open source license defined and ratified by the Open Source Initiative. "It's no easy task. It involves complex legal analysis of copyright law, and understanding of the
- Australian school turns to open source to cut costs - Network World
- But the decision may not be so easy for government-funded schools operating bureaucratically, according to Donna Benjamin, a member of Open Source Industry Australia and another speaker at linux.conf.au.
- LinuxWorld | School turns to open source to cut cost, foster student thinking
- education mini-conf report
- LinuxWorld | The gender-code divide
- sulamita garcia - president of linuxchix brazil
- Australia trials low-cost laptop - Laptops & Desktops - Gadgets - Technology
- One of these will be on display at the linux.conf.au Open Day on Thursday 18 Jan, at the University of New South Wales. 2 of the developers working on the OLPC project will be speaking at LCA.
- Open Access Conference - Berlin Declaration
- Linux Today - Notes From a Senior Editor: A Close Look at the OLPC
- Computerworld - Australia's history archived in OpenOffice.org
- Open Sources | InfoWorld | The Future of Lock-in | May 17, 2006 08:56 AM | By Matt Asay
- Linux Today - Notes From a Senior Editor: A Close Look at the OLPC
- So, yes, I am a bit blase about file formats. That is yesterday's battle - an important one, but an old one. Today's battle is being fought in the network of files. You may not realize it now - though companies like Novell are already waging a fierce batt
- Grokdoc - Usability study of GNU/Linux
- GrokDoc for GNU/Linux newbies. aims to be a useful manual on basic tasks that new users will find simple and clear and easy to follow, using what we learn from our study. Instead of technically proficient people explaining tasks and functions to newbies,
- openi.org - Open Source Web Application for OLAP Reporting
- Business intelligence (BI) should not be restricted to the privileged few. Through project OpenI (pronounced "open eye"), we will drive the adoption of a powerful, open source business intelligence platform that will enable companies of all sizes to harne
- Computerworld - Sierra: a brain that thinks about thinking
- I think there will be less and less of a Women In Computing/IT idea, and more and more a shift to computers (and sometimes programming) as an essential skill that people will need in a wide range of fields, and women will come into it through these other
- El cheapo laptop could transform learning - Technology - theage.com.au
- The Economics Classroom: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers
- Computerworld - OLPC aims for mass production in third quarter
- The Economics Classroom: A Workshop for Grade 9-12 Teachers
- "This is a humanitarian effort," Blizzard said. The hope is that equipping children with their own laptops will help significantly improve the level of education in developing nations and encourage children to learn outside of school as well as in the cla
- Computerworld - Gettys, set, go, for OLPC in 07
- Jim Gettys talks about his involvement in the One Laptop per Child project - prior to speaking at linux.conf.au 2007
- Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round
- Mass collaboration could change way companies operate - USATODAY.com
- World Domination 201
- Mass collaboration could change way companies operate - USATODAY.com
- Linux is still an operating system developed by geeks and hackers for geeks and hackers. The disconnect between us and the non-technical end user is still vast, and too many of us like it that way and will actually defend our isolation as a virtue.
- Computers in Education: A Brief History : June 1997 : THE Journal
- Blackboard, SFLC Go Head to Head at Sakai Conference : December 2006 : THE Journal
- » The war is over and Linux won | Open Source | ZDNet.com
- Blackboard, SFLC Go Head to Head at Sakai Conference : December 2006 : THE Journal
- The truth of the assertion is in a chart near the back of the report. It shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux next year, against 23% for Windows. The move is slower for larger enterprises, but the direction is clear. At lea
- Computerworld - LCA awaits as Blizzard hits Sydney this summer
- kids - especially young ones - learn from each other as much as they learn from a teacher. If you let kids show each other interesting things, let them share and work together you'll end up with an effect that makes teachers more effective and lets kids s
- Women flock to Linux talkfest - News - Builder AU
- Computerworld - linux.conf.au organisers tweak focus as final keynoter announced
- With less than a month before its kick-off, organisers of the world-renowned linux.conf.au will this week announce the final keynote speaker,
- I get around - Technology - theage.com.au
- Podcasting is a great way to express myself without using the physical energy I need to type.
- Control is the real open source advantage | Open Source | ZDNet.com
- eModerators.com - The role of the online instructor/facilitator
- E-volution of schools - Technology - theage.com.au
- eModerators.com - The role of the online instructor/facilitator
- Technology would be a major focus of the school that will boast a "meshed wireless environment", he said. "It will be an e-learning environment using m-learning [mobile technology] tools."
- Computerworld - Linux ready for the desktop
- nice article by Rodney Gedda - Linux is being deployed across business... on the desktop.
- I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by Google - 15 September 2006 - New Scientist Tech
- "The words of the prophet have vanished from the subway walls"
- CIO Blogs - I'm From IT and I'm Here to Help |
- making a peremptory rejection of open source is a ticket to a boatload of headaches. Don't make the mistake of believing that if you just wish hard enough, open source will go away.
- Open Source Publishing » Blog Archive » If the design thinking is correct, the tools should be irrelevant
- Open Source halts ICT brain drain
- Linux wins over new fans - Technology - smh.com.au
- Optimizing Your Linux Workstation for Scribus and DTP (Desktop Publishing )
- The net closes - Technology - theage.com.au
- Open Source halts ICT brain drain
- To Google or not to Google. "The exposure of a massive database of Google customers' search queries, some of them excruciatingly personal, highlights the internet’s power to infiltrate our privacy."
- Libertine Open Fonts Projekt - Projekt freier Schriftarten
- LinuxWorld | Melbourne SFD celebrants go for world record
- World Prayers - Prayer Archive
- LinuxWorld | Melbourne SFD celebrants go for world record
- "Religions are differenr roads converging upon the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal." Mahatma Gandhi
- The Emerging Economics of Open Source Software
- LinuxWorld | Post-Ubuntu Waugh predicts software Perestroika
- LinuxWorld | Australia to celebrate Software Freedom Day 2006
- LinuxWorld | Post-Ubuntu Waugh predicts software Perestroika
- Freedom and Open Source Software (FOSS) enthusiasts will once again take to the streets for Australia's third annual Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 16th.
- The Freecycle Network(tm) - Changing the world, one gift at a time.
- Open source grows beyond its roots - CNET News.com
- Writing software in an open-source process gives the company regular feedback from customers. And because end-users can try a version of the application for free, SugarCRM does not need to commit as much money to sales and marketing as traditional enterpr
- EPIC 2014 - Hosted By: Ido
- First saw this a coupla years ago - chilling how increasingly accurate it's looking.
- The Politics of Open Source Adoption, NGO's in the Developing World | Tactical Technology Collective
- ubuntu/linux in classroom environment - Linux/BSD
- LinuxWorld | And the LCA winner is: Melbourne!
- Melbourne gets linux.conf.au guernsey: ZDNet Australia: News: Software
- ubuntu/linux in classroom environment - Linux/BSD
- The 2008 location will return linux.conf.au to the city where it commenced as the Conference of Australian Linux Users back in 1999.
- ICT-Supported Subject Teaching and Learning (Publications)
- Research projects from a team at the Faculty of Education at the UK's University of Cambridge.
* Exploring teacher mediation of subject learning with ICT: A multimedia approach (T-MEDIA)
* Situated Expertise in Technology-Integrated Teaching (SE - Lifelong Learning: Cultures of Journalism
- Charlotte Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ambleside Online
- Charlotte Mason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- peculiar
- Flickr: Photos from kattekrab
- Seven Spirit Bay Wilderness Lodge - Wilderness Resort NT, Australia
- I have wanted to go there for years.
- Aboriginal Australia Tours & Travel
- This site lists Aboriginal tour operators all over australia. In particular there's a 28 day Quest listed that sounds amazing for up to 10 people.
- Leigh Blackall - Digital Literacy: how it affects teaching practices and networked learning futures
- how digital literacy affects teaching practices in Australian education. Consideration is given to understandings of digital literacy, the impact of open source software and the place of content in a Web 2.0 world
- RSStroom Reader
- People often spend time looking for reading materials in the restrooms, so this is excellent: The RSStroom Reader (even its name is funny) from Yi Tien Electronics connects to your PC wirelessly, and prints random RSS posts, on your toilet paper!
- interviews with content managers and other IT professionals » Blog Archive » Zing from AnyZing in Sydney
- Donna Benjamin, who has both theatre and technical backgrounds, plays a vital role in facilitating breakfast meetings, for both on-campus and off-campus participants. Zing is one of Donna's tools of choice
- Making The News: Holy Trinity School
- Year 4s regularly use Anyzing Technology in the classroom. This is a set of flexible keyboards which allow interaction for discussion and the dreaded tests. To say it motivates is an understatement!
- Kairosnews | A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy
- Kairosnews is an open community of members interested in the intersections of rhetoric and pedagogy with technology. Visitors should register and join in the many discussions by posting comments or creating a blog entry.
- LibriVox
- LibriVox: free audiobooks LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio
- "Educational Theory, Web Interactivity, and Romanticism" - Innovations - Commons - Pedagogies - Romantic Circles
- New technologies immerse students in a world that is verbal as much as in one that is visual.
- a nonist public service pamphlet
- blog depression? hmmm - perhaps this is a warning not to take it all too seriously. Amusing.
- World's largest Wi-Fi network uses Linux
- If securely deploying 10,000 wireless access points across 1700 locations in five months to create what is said to be the world's largest enterprise Wi-Fi network sounds like a challenge, Victoria's Department of Education (DET) in Australia took it all i
- Online or Invisible? [Steve Lawrence; NEC Research Institute]
- Articles freely available online are more highly cited. For greater impact and faster scientific progress, authors and publishers should aim to make research easy to access. Edited version appears in: Nature, Volume 411, Number 6837, p. 521, 2001.
- IBM to adopt ODF for Lotus Notes | InfoWorld | News | 2006-05-16 | By Ephraim Schwartz
- Heed Microsoft's move, adopt OpenDocument: OSIA: on ZDNet
- Donna Benjamin, a spokesperson for the industry body, claimed Microsoft's apparent change of heart was due to the software giant finally taking ODF seriously.
- iTWire - OSIA says adopt OpenDocument format like Microsoft
- "We're pleased to see Microsoft join us at the table, even if they're a little late for dinner," said Donna Benjamin, OSIA spokesperson.
- LinuxWorld | Melbourne and Hobart in the running for LCA 2008
- "Because linux.conf.au is run by a different team each year in a different city, it means there's a lot of scope for injecting a local flavour on the conference," he said. "We don't want a cookie cutter conference that keeps going year after year unchange
- LinuxWorld | Melbourne raises hand for LCA 2008
- The Melbourne bid page can be found at http://www.mel8ourne.org/.
- iTWire - Melbourne and Hobart compete for linux.conf.au 2008
- By Stan Beer Sunday, 09 July 2006
It is a case of a David and Goliath face-off, with Melbourne and Hobart competing for the right to stage for one of Australia's leading open source software technical conferences in 2008. - http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
- How Samba was written - the french cafe technique.
- EFF: Unintended Consequences of DMCA
- This document collects a number of reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates, but against consumers, scientists, and legitimate competitors. It will be updated from time to time as additional
- FTA disastrous for Australian computer industry and users
- Dr Andrew Tridgell
- E-books poised to leap - Technology - theage.com.au
- "Once information is in XML, security becomes a much easier issue and from there we can do interesting things such as lock documents to specific machines - or devices such as USB sticks - as well as create self-destructing files."
- MEL8OURNE | 2008.linux.conf.au
- Planet XTech: Aggregated coverage of XTech
- XTech 2006: ODF: Our Document Future
- Planet XTech: Aggregated coverage of XTech
- abstract + link to full paper
- Women-Related Science/Technology Email Lists
- Coase's Penguin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
- Computerworld | Sydney school teaches with Linux monopoly
- Coase's Penguin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Lorien - Stuart Rushton - power to the penguin.
- Computerworld | Open Enterprise: Patent overload hinders open source innovation
- Why patents are bad for opensource - innovation is about building on what has gone before, and patents tend to limit and stifle that process.
- Mailto Encoder
- A handy email javascript obuscation thingie for people who want to put email addresses on the web, but would like to make it a bit trickier for spambots.
- GNU/Linux And Open Source Medical Software News
- OSS Watch - open source software advisory service
- OSS Watch provides unbiased advice and guidance about free and open source software for UK further and higher education.
- InformationWeek | Digital Rights | Campaign Against Digital Rights Management Heats Up | May 26, 2006
- Magnatune: free MP3 music and music licensing (royalty free music, production music and license music).
- Campaign for Digital Rights - Campaign for Digital Rights
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Online music lovers 'frustrated'
- Boing Boing: Musician: DRM screws my fans, so it screws me
- Computerworld | Dutch broadens Australia with broadband experiences
- Magnatune: free MP3 music and music licensing (royalty free music, production music and license music).
- article by Howard Dahdah covering a broadband round table of Australian and Dutch politicians.
- MegaMath Text Menu
- materials aimed to provide opportunities for children and their teachers to experience mathematics in ways it is experienced by mathematicians and scientists. Mathematics is lively and exciting; it is a field more akin to art and poetry than many people t
- FOSS word processors compared
- NewsForge | FOSS word processors compared: OOo Writer, AbiWord, and KWord
- 'Mind over matter' no longer science fiction
- 20 Things Everyone Needs to Know - The Independant - UK
- change a tyre - iron a shirt - sleep - shave - build a fire - hit a tennis ball - shine shoes - listen - make a martini - ask someone out - learn a foreign language - apply lipstick - shake hands - negotiate - buy a diamond - scramble eggs - hang a pictur
- Ubuntu Australian Team
- Australian Ubuntu LoCo team
- Xena Development
- National Archive of Australia digital preservation software development team blog about their challenges and progress
- Planet Linux Australia
- keep up with what's going on on planet linux au - a range of perspectives on a range of things
- Welcome to Open Source Industry Australia - Open Source Industry Australia
- Industry Association for Open Source Businesses in Australia, growing membership includes small to medium enterprises and global open source companies.
- OSV - Welcome
- Industry cluster for open source businesses in Victoria, Australia
- Victorian Essential Learning Standards
- Primary source for information on curriculum reform in Victoria, Australia
- supporting IT educators | VITTA
- VITTA is a professional teachers association. The website includes resources for IT teachers and IT and education related news.
- Researchers out in the cold - Technology - theage.com.au
- research centres close due to lack of funding
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