You see, the future is already here, it's just not well distributed yet - William Gibson. A keynote presentation from Helen Baxter given at the Loop Project Day for the Greater Wellington Principals Schools Association of New Zealand in 2007.
Business Clusters to avoid Dis-Economies of scale
Hierarchies DOWN. Grassroots UP.
No longer need huge start up budgets
Online v Offline. Software as a Service (SAAS)
Some Rights Reserved
Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media. DJ / VJ & Futurist. Shares Virtual World slot on Radio NZ. Columnist for the Big Idea. Editor of Knowledgeboard.com 2001 - 2003. Launched first e-Commerce website in 1994.
WANTED: Creative Thinkers!
New Leonardos, NESTA UK
New Zealand is full of them!
KnowledgeBoard.com
Collaborative Tools, Wikis, Shared Docs, Online Meetings, Project Management
Accountants need to become Strategists. Teachers - Facilitators.
Robot surgeon - Da Vinci
Transparent, Open Natives
v Controlling Digital Colonists
Mindmaps v Documentation
1. Developing the leadership potential and capacity of the whole school, Staff and Pupils 2. Introducing Vocational Courses to the curriculum 3. Removing the age and stage restrictions from the certificated courses. 4. Developing the use of ICT to support the curriculum
Mixed Ages Cross Disciplanary Wi-Fi Collaberative Projects Flexible study spaces
A collection of Web 2.0 links with a focus on Work 2.0
Resources for NZ Media Studies Teachers.
Mindmaps, Space, Time, A Creative's Toolkit, Comics
Wiki with podcasts and workshop notes from the Wellington Loop Project day (NZ) 03/08/07