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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
To explore, expand and expound upon the emerging Australasian Commons, the Creative Commons Australia team have organised a free one-day symposium which investigates a range of activities, programme and philosophies driving open access and the cultural commons across Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia. I'll be there, participating ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Anyone who has ever tried to explain the importance of Creative Commons licenses to a new audience has probably played them the wonderful CC Mayer and Bettle Animation which was created back in 2005 by Pete Foley and others gathered together by CC Australia. The video features two animated ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
One of the big announcements at the celebrations of Creative Commons' fifth birthday was the release of the CC+ (CCPlus) licensing arrangement which combines existing CC licenses with ability to also explicitly point to additional licensing (for example, terms for commercial use on an NC CC license). From the ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
It would appear that the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has the dubious honours of being the first Australian university to have their own YouTube channel. In the past couple of months, there have been a number of reports of US universities setting up on YouTube. For example, this article ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
As readers of this blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing. I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The Australian Blogging Conference is tomorrow (Friday) in Brisbane. I'm flying out tonight and will be in the thick of it all tomorrow. I'll definitely be at the Blogging in Education session, as I'll be the facilitator for that session, and I'm looking forward to all the other blogging ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I’m at the Learning Futures Symposium today and tomorrow. I’m not blogging summaries of sessions because, to be fair, that’s often quite dull. However, I thought I’d take the opportunity to take the conference discussions to springboard some observations or thoughts that occurred during these interactions…
Insight #1: There is a ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
I'm attending four conferences or symposia across the next four weeks. In a perfect world, each will come with details blogging; however, if I don't get around to writing much for a few weeks, here's why ... [X] Learning Futures Symposium - 10 & 11 September, Canberra - This is a ...
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Sunday, July 29th, 2007
The US release date for the much anticipated Blade Runner: The Final Cut DVD has been set at 18 December 2007 (I hope the same date will be true for Australia, but I can't find anything to confirm that yet). There are sets from 2 to 5 discs in ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
Using PowerPoint poorly is probably one of the most common sins of academics in the early twenty-first century. Being told how to make slides properly is useful, but so is an eloquent example of bad slides. Thus, comedian Don McMillan makes all of our lives a little easier, ...
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