CWA New Media: Our Blog

This local series offers some great insights into the minds of young people as they imagine, and then create, products which challenge the norm. If you have a moment, drop in on show (TV2, Television New Zealand, Sundays, 5.00pm), to be amazed at the ideas, and also check out the accompanying websites. if you are in teaching and learning mode, you might find the Study Guide that CWA New Media has written for TVNZ to accompany this series of interest. Source: Let’s Get Inventin’

TVNZ website, Series website, Study Guide (pdf)

KAREN – the Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network – has just been introduced to society.

Launched on 31 August, the network joins a fraternity of similar networks in over 40 countries. KAREN provides high speed networking between New Zealand’s science, education and innovation networks, and can carry data at least 10,000 times the speed of an average broadband connection. The site provides backgrounds and examples of its potential.

Source: KAREN

We all knew it had to come – a way for a small mobile device to have a large screen. This YouTube video provides a glimpse of the future from Royal Philips Electronics – one of the world’s biggest electronics companies.

Source: YouTube