September 5, 2008 – 11:48 am
Our company has been providing search/discovery services for repositories for over 10 years. The first project that we were involved with was EDNA (EDucation Network Australia) - Australia’s gateway to education resources. Edna, as it is now known, is still providing search services for content that it catalogs, and also other useful collections […]
September 3, 2008 – 9:01 am
So this morning when I fired up my browser (Firefox) for the first time, Google’s home page had changed again - yesterday the stump jump plough, today a whole new browser is available. I started to read about it yesterday on Google’s blog and obviously there is a stack of posts all over the […]
September 2, 2008 – 8:33 am
Not the usual sort of technology that I comment on but the stump jump plough would have been the iPhone of the 1800’s (that’s probably doing it a bit of a dis-service). Anyway, its nice to see the local Google team recognising this with a bit of a local flavour on their home […]
August 26, 2008 – 9:07 am
Working on a report for e-Portfolios at the moment and it is really interesting to hear the passion and conviction in people when they talk about what an e-Portfolio is. From the JISC e-Portfolio Overview page there is a great little text box which simply states
Fundamentally an ‘e-portfolio’ is the product created […]
August 18, 2008 – 10:52 am
Over the last few months I have been spending a bit of time looking at various games platforms, particularly web-based games. Here’s a new initiative from the ABC called Catchment Detox supporting learning about environmental issues and management of catchments. From the website:
It’s an online game where you’re in charge of the whole […]
August 12, 2008 – 9:03 am
The Schools Interoperability Framework Association (SIFA) and Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) have officially announced a partnership looking at the development and implementation of SCORM into school software applications. SIF is a specification that enables interoperability between applications that you will find in a school system while ADL’s SCORM defines learning content. The […]
Well its supposed to cut down times in the lunch queues and help remove some bullying along with a few other uses but there is nothing like fingerprinting kids to get people worked up. I looked at biometrics in schools some time ago and here it is again in a video piece from the […]
From the Ars Technica site is the article ‘Australian websites to get ratings for content, age‘. I am not sure what to make of this one. It seems that the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has approved a ‘Content Services Code’. The code was developed by the Internet Industry of Australia […]
Here’s the obligatory post on the iPhone. At last its here and already there are a few around the office. It seems a few people from work joined the queues on Friday and bought themselves the ultimate in cool gadgets for the masses. Unfortunately I wasn’t one of them but I have […]
