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Educating the Net Generation: A Toolkit of Resources for Educators in Australian Universities contains a suite of tools and resources developed during the Educating the Net Generation project. These resources include research instruments that can be adapted and reused by researchers who are investigating student and staff use of new technologies, as well as tools that can be used by educators who are planning and evaluating implementations of new technology-based activities in higher education.
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09
By Bruce Sterling EmailMarch 01, 2009 | 4:33:42 AM
*By the garbled reportage, I'd be guessing some of those kiwis were having trouble with my accent. Here are the verbatim remarks.
THE BRIEF BUT GLORIOUS LIFE OF WEB 2.0, AND WHAT COMES AFTER
Bruce Sterling, Wellington, Feb 2009
So, thanks for having me cross half the planet to be here.
So, just before I left Italy, I was reading an art book. About 1902, because we futurists do that. And it had this comment in it by Walter Pater that reminded me of your problems.
Walter Pater was a critic and an artist of Art Nouveau. There was a burst of Art Nouveau in Turin in 1902 -- because what Arts and Crafts always needed was some rich industrialists. Rich factory owners were the guys who bought those elaborate handmade homes and the romantic paintings of the Lady of Shalott. Fantastic anti-industrial structures were financed by heavy industry.
I know that sounds ironic or even sarcastic, but it isn't. Creative energies are liberated by oxymorons, by breakdowns in definitions. The Muse comes out when you look sidelong, over your shoulder.
So Walter Pater was a critic, like me, so of course he's complaining. The Italians in 1902 don't understand the original doctrines of the PreRaphaelites and Ruskin and William Morris! That's his beef. The Italians just think that Art Nouveau has a lot of curvy lines in it, and it's got something to do with nude women and vegetables! They're just seizing on the superficial appearances! In Italy they call that stuff "Flower Style."
And that's your problem, too, here in New Zealand. Far from the action here at the antipodes, you people, you just don't get it about the original principles of Web 2.0! Too often, you've got no architecture of participation, sometimes you don't have an open API! Out here at the end of the earth, you think it's all about drop shadows and the gradients and a tag cloud, and a startup name with a Capital R in the middle of it!
And that's absolute
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