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Participation in developing guidelines for schools and government on filtering internet content and the tension between being safe and having opportunities to learn.

How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

some ideas for avoidding being caught in a 'filter bubble' such as those formed by Google and facebook...

Interesting post flagging the info overload things that we have all come across. The second point in the 5 point list is part of the concept that Downes & Siemens have used in the Connectivism MOOC i.e. don't even attempt to read everything - that's not what it's about. Instead choose & filter your information, create networks and trust platforms for 3rd party filtering.

Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content. "Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."

Internet filtering and false positives

Mindful Infotention - A combination of learned attention skills and online information tools. Created in a rich Concept Map.

The much anticipated MS Word MediaWiki filter: "Allows you to save your Microsoft Office Word 2007 and 2010 documents straight into MediaWiki."

Enterprise immersive software is a collection of collaboration, communication, and productivity tools unified via a 3D or pseudo-3D visual environment. In this computer-generated environment, one or more people engage in work activities like meetings, conferences, and learning and training. The software provides a shared, interactive, multichannel experience through presence awareness, voice chat, active speaker indication, text chat, and many other features, often including avatars. The Enterprise Immersive Software Decision-Making Guide is a use case-based guide designed to aid business decision makers in the enterprise immersive software selection process. In this report, we present "if/then" scenarios and highlight good-fit vendors for common situations, with a focus on the most prevalent use cases: meetings, conferences, and learning and training. The report offers guidance on how to: 1) ask core business questions to frame the discussion, 2) choose a research-and-demo, do-it-yourself, or combination approach, 3) identify requirements based on your use case, and 4) filter your options based on important limiters.

"ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways"

New Google features - especially like the 'card' style layout for search results and the 'football vs aussie rules' comparison searches

An example of IT Admins deciding what is good for us and getting it spectacularly wrong. Many other examples in the comments too.

Paper on a PLE approach.

Embed VoiceThread conversations in a Moodle page - code now available as a Moodle filter.

Fear and loathing - this time regarding students accessing the Internet at home on Chromebooks.