The London Tube Map is an iconic work of design. Every day of the year it probably helps many thousands of visitors to London and some locals as well navigate their way around this incredible and essential piece of transport infrastructure. The map itself has an interesting history - for an overview see […]
ePortfolio 2009 has run its course and participants from all over the world will start heading home hopefully filled with ideas and enthusiasm for moving the eportfolio agenda forward. During the conference Dr. Helen Barrett mentioned that reflection was at the heart and soul of eportfolios and this was a recurring theme throughout the […]
In a previous post I briefly reminisced on the development of interaction devices with computers over the years. Today we are seeing an incredible array of devices and the games arena seems to be the area really pushing the limits. In that post there was an embedded video on Microsoft’s Natal that I […]
It’s great to look at the way input devices have changed over time. From what I understand the QWERTY keyboard was a way to slow down typists initially way back when we had mechanical typewriters. The seemingly random placement of the keys was supposed to slow users down to a speed that the […]
My Twitter feed is starting to get a heap of activity about bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, so I thought I better check it out.
There’s an interesting conversation going on over at Robert Scoble’s friendfeed - must be great to have so many connections - but even with all the opinion going on, it’s still […]
So this morning when I started up my computer and loaded its email client there was a small wave of emails about this thing called Google Wave. Something’s happening over there at Google’s developer’s conference. It seems that in the keynote they have announced a new product/service called Google Wave. From […]
The Wikimedia Foundation has just announced important changes to its licensing regime. The Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License will be used to “support greater interoperability and re-usability of Wikimedia content. The current GNU Free Documentation License will continue to be supported.”
The full press release is published on the Wikimedia Foundation website here. […]
Just the other day I was trying to find some reviews on a particular software product but was really only interested in quite recent ones. As the product in question has been around for some years there were plenty of reviews about it but I had a really difficult time finding recent ones with […]
Quite some time ago (way back in June 2007) I posed this question in a post and while the intent was never really to answer the question with a yes, but to highlight some of the features that are important to eportfolios and their owners, it’s interesting to see that in some sort of manner, […]
This week I was fortunate enough to attend the first two days of the National Career Conference run by the Career Development Association of Australia. The conference was really useful for me and gave me some great insights into the fantastic work careers counselors do, along with information on a number of programs the […]
