Archive for the 'Crumbware' Category

Google Street Views Aussie

Author: tom | 13 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Crumbware, Web 2.0

Just like everywhere else it’s debuted, Google’s Street View Maps are creating a stir in Australia (and stir and stir).  Especially fun is the video Google’s made for the Aussie market:

Useful resources on Street View and the buzz are the wikipedia entry and a typical page with top-sightings.  Also the Daily Telegraph has been covering [...]

Crumbware Post

Author: tom | 02 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Crumbware

what’s new in the world of digital data trails

Teachable Doh!-ment

Author: tom | 17 August 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Crumbware, The New WWW

The Age reports how a Sydney resident recorded The Simpson’s Movie on its premiere evening via his mobile phone and had it posted on the net within two hours. It only took that amount of time before representatives of 20th Century Fox alerted Australian Federal Police about the copyright violation. Of course, [...]

“Big Mother” as Cognitive Tutor

Author: tom | 08 April 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Big Mother, Crumbware, New Permutations

In my last post, I suggested that education would do well to mine the wealth of information that can be derived from digitally tracking student movements. A lot can be learned through amassed patterns of student use within software virtual environments and actual physical environs. Today Education Week reports about a New Breed of [...]