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Monthly Archives: February 2008

Take care when constructing your e-portfolio solution

February 25, 2008 – 4:12 pm

At the recent e-portfolio symposium it was interesting to hear the range of opinions on how e-portfolio solutions should be constructed. We had the example of the experienced Web user who preferred to mash an e-portfolio together from existing web services (blogs, wikis, file and imaging services etc) whereas less experienced users preferred institutionally […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, e-portfolio, identity | Comments (1)

Open source distributed search manager ready to go

February 20, 2008 – 11:54 am

For a number of years now education.au has been providing ’search’ services to the education community in a number of its projects. The best known of these is ‘edna‘. edna’s search functionality started out as a collection of metadata records describing web resources that would be of value to people in the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, search, open source, openDSM | Comments (2)

For those that seek to discourage the use of mobiles

February 13, 2008 – 2:55 pm

Some interesting statistics on the use and growth of mobiles in Asia from Ewan McIntosh’s edu.blogs.com.

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

“Engineering a path for the future”

February 12, 2008 – 8:00 am

Heres an initiative worth following up for some (all) of our educational organisations and many others besides. An entry posted by Vint Cerf on the Google Blog about ‘grand engineering challenges for the 21st century‘. The National Academy of Engineering has assembled a panel of experts to figure out what these challenges may […]

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

ePortfolio: a user perspective?

February 10, 2008 – 12:07 pm

In the spirit of a certain type of eportfolio, here are some reflections on day 2 of QUT’s ‘Australian ePortfolio Symposium‘. Day 2 was the only day I was able to attend which is a bit unfortunate as my perspective can only be based on my interpretations of that day in the program. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, SOA, e-framework, e-portfolio | Comments (2)