February 11, 2009 – 2:26 pm
I have just attended the Australian ePortfolio Symposium 2009 and would like to acknowledge all the hard work and effort put in by the team at QUT who made this such a worthwhile event. On the Sunday I was privileged to be able to participate in a panel session on ‘Technical issues and opportunities […]
November 26, 2008 – 8:21 am
Just reading the article on the unsuccessful negotiations of Facebook to buy out Twitter. My first thoughts are that I am relieved that deal didn’t go through. According to the article it failed over the price. I wonder what Facebook and Twitter users think of such a takeover. According to this ZDNet […]
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 […]
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 […]
Virtual worlds are getting quite a bit of attention at work at the moment and for good reason. Clearly there is a huge potential for their use in education and momentum in this area is really building. Like many I have experimented a bit with platforms like Second Life but am now wanting […]
From the Learning Futures Eiffel team blog here’s a nice introduction on standards to consider for ePortfolios. It gives a nice summary of the major ePortfolio specific standards to consider and importantly, mentions related specifications such as OpenSocial which I believe those interested in ePortfolios should start to at a minimum, become familiar with. […]
From Stephen Downes’ blog, notification that the IMS Global Learning Consortium is exploring the use of Creative Commons licensing in its interoperability specifications. The press release from IMS doesn’t go into a great deal of detail other than plans to run a pilot project under a form of Creative Commons licence. It will […]
September 11, 2007 – 8:26 am
Interesting post from Tim Hand got me to thinking about this one. From Tim’s perspective, the standards arena seems to have stalled a bit (if I’m reading correctly). When compared to what’s happening in Web 2.0 with new services and technologies just powering ahead. Try to keep up with what’s happening in […]
Here’s a great local innovation (I like those). Podmo provides ‘free community networking for mobile phones’. Its a great service which provides access to content and other services such as messaging at no cost to users. All you need to setup a ‘podmo free zone’ is a server with Bluetooth radio capability […]
February 8, 2007 – 7:31 am
Ever wondered what the folks in the e-framework are up to? Here’s an interesting video introducing the Service Oriented Approach (SOA). According to the website, ” A Service Oriented Approach to creating and evolving information communication technology solutions is a phenomenon that is transforming the way many organisations in […]
