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film music | mobygratis.com

stepheng — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:33:22 +0000

Somehow I’d missed this. Would have been good for one of the kid’s movie projects.

Social networking in education meets age restrictions

stepheng — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:27:43 +0000

Definitely a problem we’ve run into, where a child of ours has been asked to do a school assignment based on their use of social networking, while at the same time all or most of the children in that class are too young to meet the age requirements for the service. On the one hand, the school tries to imbue students with some kind of value system that rejects lying and unethical behaviour (according to the norms they work with in the school’s ethos), while on the other hand assuming those values don’t apply here. Mixed messages all round.

Anyway, here’s how it panned out for one set of parents. See TidBITS Opinion: How COPPA Teaches Children to Lie.

Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Symposium (Monash University)

stepheng — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:26:22 +0000

Peter Horsfield mentioned that podcasts from the recent symposium on Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture (Monash University) are now online. Sounded interesting when I had a chat with the organiser, Danielle Kirby, back in August.

See Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture Symposium, Arts, Monash University.

Sadly, I couldn’t get over there (it was also the weekend of the RWC). Will listen to the podcasts though.

Apple Church draws iFaithful (Satire)

stepheng — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:09:07 +0000

Ah, satire, my old friend, I’ve missed you.

Apple Church draws iFaithful – LarkNews.com

OurSpace: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World

stepheng — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:45:14 +0000

Over at Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins there a link through to the Our Space: Being a Responsible Citizen of the Digital World project. This project aims to develop a set of curricular materials “designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments.”

Jenkins has some more detailed discussion about it and some of the case studies here as well.

Hajj being live-streamed on YouTube

stepheng — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 04:38:35 +0000

From the religion and media file: AFP: Hajj being live-streamed on YouTube.

Church and Technology | Tyndale

stepheng — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 22:18:44 +0000

From Toronto, the latest issue of Tyndale University College and Seminary’s magazine focuses specifically on church and technology, including the summary of some research they’ve done on technology use in church in Ontario.

You can access the entire magazine in electronic form here: Tyndale, The Magazine | eVersion | Tyndale

The summary article is available here: Church and Technology | Tyndale.

And you can download the infographic from the article here: Church and Technology Infographic | Tyndale

Hat tip to John Dyer at The Church and Technology Survey and Infographic | Don’t Eat The Fruit who has some brief comments on it.

Amazon, OverDrive, Kindle and libraries

stepheng — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:50:00 +0000

Given the shift towards public and institutional libraries moving towards the eBook work, this raises some interesting questions.

See Amazon, OverDrive, and Kindle! Oh my! | The Digital Immigrant.

(P.S. Not entirely convinced by Auckland Library’s Overdrive link up in terms of pragmatics – just too fiddly and unfriendly to struggle with.)

Dennis Ritchie: RIP

stepheng — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:02:37 +0000

Dennis Ritchie, Computing Pioneer, C Creator Dies | Stuff.co.nz.

One of the first computer science books I ever bought was ‘The C Programming Language‘ by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. (The original, not the ANSI C updated edition). Even now, after multiple culls of books, it’s one book that has so much emotional and nostalgic connection that I still have it (along with Kernighan and Pike’s ‘UNIX Programming Environment‘).

Cartoon – Always connected

stepheng — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:54:41 +0000

Hat tip to Derek for the cartoon about the always connected life.

See Derek’s Blog » Always connected