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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is determined to push on with his plans to force Internet Service Providers to censor the Internet for all Australians. This clean-feed will be mandatory in all homes and schools across the country.
The filter will supposedly censor material that is “harmful and inappropriate” for children according to the government. It seems to me that the child [...]

Chris has been updating the site once again and added MobilePress a great plugin which renders your WordPress blog on mobile handsets.
The plugin allows specific themes for specific devices / mobile browsers, such as iPhone, Opera Mini, Windows CE Mobile and other generic handset browsers.
The plugin also allows WordPress theme developers to create [...]

Neil Hirsig has developed an online course to offer students an introduction to the world of computer generated 3-D modeling and animation.
As an introductory course, it provides a basic understanding of the skills and techniques employed by 3-D designers in a wide range of applications. In this online course we will explore basic mesh modeling, [...]

MobilizeThis 2008 is being held next week, from the 22nd-24th Oct. It is a yearly event which provides a snapshot of a cross-sectorial range of contributions to discussion involving the practical and constructive use of ICT’s in the education and related industries.
This year it is being held at Charles Darwin University
The purpose of MobilizeThis 2008 is to bring educators, e-learning [...]

Open Loft is an Open Source sculpting tool for use in Second Life. It consists of a series of scripts and objects that enable you to create sculpted prims in world.
It is available free from Xstreet SL and it is Open Source, so can be modified and redistributed under the terms of the GPLv3.
The creator [...]

Richard Stallman has spoken out about cloud computing and what he believes is a trap aimed at forcing people to buy into proprietary systems.
Cloud computing is basically where you store data online or run your servers via remote. Millions of people now upload personal data such as emails, photographs and, increasingly, their work, to sites owned by companies [...]

It is great to hear that at least one Open Source company has now made it onto Becta’s official list of suppliers to the UK education sector. 
As usual it’s all about money. The Open Source community has always advocated that schools in the UK adopted Free Open Source Software (FOSS) on the grounds that there were considerable cost [...]

I have to say a big thank you to Henny Zimer in Second Life aka Jeff Agamenoni, he and Chris presented a Microblogging session earlier as part of the Jokaydia Unconference. If you missed it then you missed out! Well done chaps, it was a really interesting session.
The Jokaydia Unconference has all but drawn to [...]

The Jokaydia Unconference will be held this weekend in Second Life. Everyone is welcome to come along and participate, for further information click here
Newbies Please Note: We have planned a number of sessions especially for educators who are interested in gaining some Second Life skills! Join us to ask questions, learn about the Second Life [...]

Ok well perhaps that should read, half a laptop per child.  News just in from The Inquirer, the first batch of Classmate PCs has been delivered to Portuguese schools. 3000 of an approximate 500,000, due to be distributed over the next three years. Current student to PC ratios stand at about 5:1, this should be reduced to 2:1 hopefully. So they cannot [...]