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Category Archives: SICTAS


Confusion reigns with ePortfolios

If I was to do a word association test on eportfolios the first word that I would think of is confusion. Almost every substantive article I have read on eportfolios starts out with the author(s) defining what they mean by eportfolios. I have had to do this myself and can relate to […]

another great touch screen interface

Even though the CES is on the other side of the world, thanks to the proliferation of bloggers. tech reviewers (and of course, their own website) etc we can still get an idea of what’s new and exciting at this years show. Touch screen and other innovative interfaces and the use of gestures are […]

on the future of ePortfolio - Roundtable

Found this interesting discussion on ePortfolios courtesy of a Stephen Downes post. It’s a transcript of a panel discussion from a conference held by LaGuardia Community College in April last year but has just appeared on the Academic Commons site. Over quite a period of time now we have been researching the application of […]

on Facebook and Identity

Very interesting post appeared on the ABC news site titled ‘Lawyer uses Facebook to serve documents‘. A Canberra court has approved using Facebook as a way to serve documents. Apparently, the co-defendants have been hard to reach but there are Facebook accounts which list them as friends and has their birth dates. […]

on the challenges of emerging technologies and education

Tomorrow morning I am participating in (what I hope to be) a really engaging online discussion on emerging technologies and education. There should be about a dozen participants in this discussion with a mix of technologists and educators that are doing really interesting stuff in their environments with technology. This conversation is part […]

Nice set of videos of Project Wonderland

Project Wonderland is an open source toolkit from SUN for creating 3d virtual worlds. This set of videos provides a great overview of the types of things you can do in them, what some people are actually doing, and what new functionality is available. One of the projects that I never seem to […]

bend me, shake me, anywhere you want me

…As long as its online, we’re alright.
Apologies to the American Breed for the remix! However, this is not about one hit wonders from years gone by, it’s about technology - screens that bend, input devices you can shake, anywhere and anytime.
What’s over the horizon for us with new technologies and how will they be […]

Australian ePortfolio Project - final project report released

I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while now. The Australian ePortfolio Project (AeP) is an ALTC funded project to “investigate ePortfolio practice in the higher education sector in Australia, in order to provide strategic and practical guidance about the use of ePortfolios in academic institutions.” From its website, the project […]

Trends to watch out for

Part of my work for SICTAS is supporting an online event on future technologies (more here) where we hope to engage people in interesting, provocative discussion on what emerging technologies may yield for us in education. As I started to think about this I realised I can’t just look at this area in isolation. […]

I blog, therefore I am

Or perhaps that should be ‘I think, therefore I (can) blog’. Not perhaps an accurate use of Descartes’ method, but it would be interesting to see what great philosophers of earlier times would have made of ‘digital identities’ or the ‘digital self’.
Stephen Downes posts a really interesting article ‘My digital identity’ and relates aspects […]