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Howard Rheingold was the guest at 'A vision for the future', Education.au's latest installment of their seminar series.

Howard Rheingold was the keynote speaker for education.au's final seminar for 2007. Howard is an internationally renowned critic and writer on cultural, social and political implications of modern communication media. He is the author of numerous books including The Virtual Community, Tools for Thought: the History and Future of Mind-expanding Technology and Smart Mobs.

Smart Mobs examines how the convergence of mobile communications and computing is driving the next social revolution - transforming the ways in which people meet, work, buy, sell and create.

As with the danah boyd appearances, you can download podcasts and presentations from the education.au site.

HighEdWebDev has started in Rochester, N.Y., and as usual, Karine at collegewebeditor has done a sterling job getting some guest bloggers together. It would have been fantastic to make it there but Rochester IS a long way from Sydney so these guest bloggers will hopefully make the rest of us feel like we're there. If you use Facebook you may also want to check out the HighEdWebDev group.

If you fancy getting along to two days of IA and related goodness in Sydney then you might be interested to know that early bird registrations for Oz-IA 2007 close this coming Friday, 7 September.

So get over to the site and register.

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Well, after a prod, here are the promised 'thoughts' on what danah boyd had to say. I'll warn you now, this is a long post.

First, some background on boyd. danah boyd (yes, it's always in lower case) was brought out to Australia by education.au to talk about Generation MySpace - Social networking and its impact on students and education. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of California - Berkeley and a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. Her Masters was in sociable media. So, basically she knows an awful lot about social media and how we use it.

All up, boyd spoke for several hours. Although this sounds like a lot, she was an engaging speaker who responded well to questions. Her breadth of knowledge and ability to convey it to a large audience was astounding. The points I have drawn out below are just a fraction of what was covered overall, so please do not think I have totally represented her talks.

If you've got something intereting that you're just bursting to tell the Higher Ed Web community, here's your chance:

It’s that time again! The theme for this year's HighEdWebDev conference is "Collaborate. Participate. Innovate." We call upon you now to participate: submit a proposal for presentation at HighEdWebDev 2007!

We are looking for a wide variety of presentations. Possible formats include one-hour presentations, half-hour presentations (i.e. "Showcase"), poster presentations and half-day (3.5 hours) workshops. The committee will consider any presentations related to the Web, electronic communications, marketing or professional skills and higher education. __*Call deadline is May 31, 2007*__.

The HighEdWebDev conference examines the unique issues facing Web professionals at colleges and universities – a conference created *for* higher education Web professionals, *by* higher education Web professionals. We hope you'll join us on Oct. 14-17 in Rochester, NY, to collaborate, participate and innovate with others in your field.

Get more info at the HighEdWeb site.

South by Soutwest (SXSW) is currently underway in Austin, Texas. For those of us living in jealousy of the likes of our own Daniel Boud, you can check out coverage of the event on the SXSW site which includes podcasts of keynotes and interactive panels and videos of choice bits of the action.

Karine over at collegewebeditor has managed to cajole some of her readers to actually write for her. They're 'live blogging' from the eduWeb Conference currently underway in Baltimore.

Female? Studying IT or similar full time? Then you might be interested in the Google Global Community Scholarship for the Grace Hopper Conference. Google will give you $2500 USD to attend the Grace Hopper Conference in the US. Best of all for Aussies, it's only open to those studying in a Uni OUTSIDE the US.

Candidates must be:

* Enrolled full-time in their undergraduate or graduate study in a university outside of the United States
* In Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related technical field major
* Maintaining a strong academic background with demonstrated leadership ability

More info at Google.

Just a quick mention, for those in or close to the US: the eduWeb Conference is being held in Baltimore 31 July to 1 August. Shelley Wetzel, one of the conference directors says:

The conference focuses on "both sides of the fence" regarding a website: front end - marketing, communications, admissions, library, etc. and back end - IT, development, databases, apps, instructional design, etc. The aim is for poeple to not only learn about what's in their field but to bring a better working relationship among the personnel that now create the Web.

Check out the website for more detail.

Adaptive Path and Different, are bringing Jesse James Garrett to the Human Centred Design Revolution workshop this May in Sydney.

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