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"Earlier this month non-profit organisations and companies including Google, Mozilla, Yahoo, and Reddit united to organise a day of action called Reset the Net. The event marked the first anniversary of Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Administration's extensive and illegal dragnet surveillance apparatus."

Peg it up, Move it Around, Get it Done. Bit like card-indexing, but to organise your work (play?) ... and it's collaborative!

Nice! I learned that this system for scheduling is called Kanban. See also http://leankitkanban.com/Home and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban

Thanks Clay - another good tool. And also for intro to Kanban. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban - interesting :-)

"BYOD isn't a recommendation, it's a realty. Everyone's bought one and everyone uses one and everyone carries it around with them. When we organise a meeting or conference, we don't send people an email telling them what device to bring, neither do we buy or lease a whole load of computers and hand them out." via @DonaldClark

"I helped to organise a mini-unconference for a university class. It was to be something that would give other teachers a broad idea how these events work and how interactive devices can help."

Draw Import Organize Style your Google Maps. Great tool for organising a trip with students and let them collaborate and learning new skills.

"Safer Internet Day (SID) is organised by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world."

​TrackOne Studio designs, develops and implements original custom built software solutions and productivity tools to meet the demanding requirements of the education sector. With our development teams depth and experience in the creation of solutions for education we are ideally suited to working collaboratively with your organisation. Our team will work with you to analyse your aims and objectives and then, design, develop and implement a sophisticated software solution tailored specifically to your organisation's needs, utilising the most modern technology platforms.

Too often a student's digital literacy experience is limited by what their teacher can do.  How often do we hear "I can't do eLearning unless I get adequate PD first". Enter Minimally Invasive Education.  Today a couple of exceptional junior school teachers and myself pooled all our iMacs together to see if we could encourage our 5 year-olds to gather in SOLES (Self-Organised Learning Environments) and teach themselves how to use iMovie.

NetSafe is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes confident, safe, and responsible use of online technologies.

"Are you a digital packrat? Are you in need of a searchable repository for everything you want to recall later? Does the idea of automatic OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for all your scanned PDFs get you excited in a way only seriously organised people could ever understand? If so, Evernote is the tool you need right now - and we've got the perfect manual to get you started using it like a professional."

Helping to make New Zealand digital content easy to find, share, and use. We aim to make New Zealand digital content more useful. This includes helping people use digital material from libraries, museums, government departments, publicly funded organisations, the private sector, and community groups. Use this site to: Find NZ digital material that is hidden or buried on the internet Search across more than 20 million digital items to discover New Zealand treasures such as amazing aerial photos, old posters and memorabilia, newspaper clippings, artworks, and publications. Items are contributed from partners including Te Papa, the Alexander Turnbull Library, Auckland Art Gallery, Te Ara, NZ On Screen and many many more.

Interesting post discussing another way to use Evernote - this time to keep a blog organised.

An invaluable guide for Australian Teachers on twitter. Very comprehensive and organised by subject area on google spreadsheet. I will put in my favourites:

"According to research by Porn Harms, a US organisation, the average age of children's exposure to pornography is 11, but parents and professionals are dealing with exposure issues of children much younger."

"It's creepy to think that you're being stalked. But how much creepier is it that a group of people sit around a long table analysing information on your Facebook profile in order to decide whether you're worthy of a job in their organisation? Not only are we told that this repugnant practice occurs but it's promoted as a reality in the education system."

"An all-in-one tool to manage registrations to a lot of events. Especially useful if you are organising trainings and want to let people register to the session they want."

Science and Engineering Experiments for Kids is an organisation, based in the University of Cambridge, whose aim is to promote the excitement and fun of science and engineering to children in primary schools Simple scientific concepts and principles are introduced using hands-on experiments based on National Curriculum Key Stage 2 Science and Technology

I presented twice at a great two day conference in Melbourne called 'Arresting Audiences'. The irony of the title not lost on this writer as the real intention of the event run by Film Victoria (a traditional film funding organisation) was commendable - finally focus on 'users', 'watchers', 'participants' aka as old school 'audiences'. Most of the talks explored new marketing, basic demography and obligatory future trends with a couple of inspirational 'write for your inner audience' highlight talks from the likes of Jane 'buffy/BSG' Espenson, but I was asked to look at the social and transmedia aspects that affect and impact on audiences/communities so below is: