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If you're near your Skype account and Skype device tonight (Wednesday, 11 April, 630pm Adelaide time) - I'd welcome your participation in a test call to kick the tyres on Skype premium. Details on my blog: http://kerryj.com/2012/04/11/skype-premium-test/

Information literacy is a human right, according to the Australian Library and Information Association. I found this incredibly moving and inspirational fact out while researching the follwoing presentation on lifelong learning.

Some thoughts on participatory pedagogy and MOOCs...

Writing learning objectives that not only provide context, but create a roadmap to engaging activities and online content.

How do you handle your selves? Do you draw an online divide between your professional self and your private self? Do people who whinge about work on their personal accounts deserve to be fired if they are easily traced back to their place of work? Should people using professional accounts use the 2-drink rule after hours?

It's been an amazing week for Australia in terms of the debate on filtering, censorship and internet safety. Our country is now on an international surveillance list of repressive regimes. Ouch.

An overview of ImmersED estate - a Open SImulator sim for educators to learn about the use of virtual worlds in education by actively engaging in learning exercises there. open and available for testing - please come by and kick the tyres! Built in OpenSim, hosted on ReacitonGrid.

Quick post on the similarities between game-based learning and PBL. Features brilliant Commoncraft video on PBL.

My early thoughts on the book Flash Foresight: How to see the invisible and do the impossible. There's a lot in here for edutech.

If you come at things with the abundance mind-set of the knowledge age, you will really enrich their learning experience - and yours. Can't get YouTube in your school? Bandwidth an issue? Build a rich network of friends and colleagues online. Here is how:

Help us test Microsoft Lync this Friday, 23 September 2011.

Just coming down from the Virtual Worlds Best Practice in Education conference. Held Friday, Saturday, Sunday Second Life time there was a great range of sessions, largely in traditional conference settings over several sims. What a helluva lot of planning and effort went into this. Even more impressive considering they had 16 weeks to pull it off.

When you hear a presenter standing in front of rows of avatars while standing on stages saying we have to get rid of the sage on the stage mentality - what goes through YOUR mind?

According to recent research findings, e-learning has reached the point in the Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector where it has tipped over into the mainstream with 50% of employers and 51% of Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) saying they use some online learning activities with learners. 90% of trainees say they want it. Yet for the past four surveys, practitioners are rapidly losing confidence in the ability of e-learning to improve learning outcomes for students. What's going on?

Is none better than bad?