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Monthly Archives: January 2008

careerOne + myspace = myspacejobs

January 31, 2008 – 4:37 pm

An interesting service from myspace and career one, myspacejobs combines the might of the social networking space with the “country’s fastest growing employment site”. This article from adelaidenow suggests the importance of networking in building a career. Myspace makes a great eportfolio service and no doubt that is what many people around the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, e-portfolio | Comments (3)

digital pen/paper combination starting to look pretty good

January 24, 2008 – 4:03 pm

Due for release shortly is the Livescribe Smartpen. The website demo of this looks very impressive and is certainly bound to have appeal to gadget lovers. Livescribe combines its smartpen with something called dotpaper along with audio recording and integration with applications to create some pretty interesting scenarios. Having your notes synched […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, livescribe | Comments (2)

PILIN closure report out now

January 22, 2008 – 2:00 pm

One of the more interesting projects that I have had the good fortune to be exposed to recently has been the PILIN (Persistent Identifier Linking INfrastructure) project which is one of the Systemic Infrastructure Initiative projects. We use persistent identifiers in some of our projects (eg LORN) and it has been great to collaborate […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, PILIN, persistent identifiers | Comments (0)

Impressions from BETT

January 22, 2008 – 9:19 am

BETTclaims to be the largest education technology trade show there is and after having the good fortune to attend part of it, I believe them (it is also the only education technology trade show that I have ever seen though). My first impression of BETT actually started a couple of train stops prior to […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, BETT | Comments (0)

problems with the thin end of the wedge

January 21, 2008 – 8:00 am

In a previous post, I looked at filtering since it is quite topical at the moment. I guess one of the concerns that many people would have is who decides what is appropriate content for citizens to be exposed to, the values and contexts under which that is assessed and how it is to […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, filtering | Comments (0)

on filtering

January 18, 2008 – 8:57 am

An opportunity to visit BETT recently enabled me to take a look at a number of approaches to Internet safety. This was particularly good timing in relation to the recent announcement from Senator Conroy to establish filtering for all Australian Internet users in order to protect a (very important) sub-set of Australian Internet users. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, filtering | Comments (2)

My best and worse picks for 2007

January 2, 2008 – 8:04 am

So this is just a personal view of some of the technologies that have been hits and misses for me during 2007. Starting off with the worst, a HP Pavilion laptop running Vista I bought for home. What a worthless piece of (well..) junk! It had an incorrectly installed operating system which […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau | Comments (2)