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Category Archives: Web 2.0


‘Wave’ goodbye to email - Google Wave is on its way.

May 29, 2009 – 8:55 am

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 […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google, innovation, open source | Comments (0)

Facebook terms of service /ownership of your content

February 19, 2009 – 2:42 pm

Well here’s one for those of us that naively think we own the photos etc that we store in social networks and other places on the Web. A short while ago Facebook decided to change its terms of service. cnn.com/technology summarises these changes as:
The company deleted a sentence from the old Terms […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, Twitter, facebook, privacy | Comments (3)

a random ramble on e-Portfolios

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 […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, interoperability, e-portfolio, SICTAS | Comments (1)

User generated content (UGC) analysis

April 23, 2008 – 5:58 pm

An interesting post on Erik Duval’s blog on the quantitative analysis of user-generated content on the Web. The post refers to a presentation given by Erik and Zavier Ochia at the First International Workshop on Understanding Web Evolution (WebEvolve2008). The research builds on the notion that while consumption of user-generated content (UGC) might […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (1)

do you have time for social networking?

April 17, 2008 – 8:43 am

Here’s a great article aimed at people working in museums but I am sure it’s just as interesting for anyone working in any cultural institutions or really, anyone with an interest in social networking in general. Written by Nina Simon, ‘How much time does Web 2.0 take‘ looks at what you might be able […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking | Comments (2)

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 | Also posted in Educationau, SOA, e-framework, e-portfolio | Comments (2)

Standards and Web 2.0 - On a collision course?

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 […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, interoperability, e-portfolio, standards | Comments (6)

on locr: geo-tagging photos

July 20, 2007 – 6:02 am

Visiting one of our service providers this morning gave me a chance to play with a photo geo-tagging service. locr provides a service that uses an internal or external GPS receiver to tag your photos with GPS coordinates which you can then upload to their website to share with the rest of the world. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, locr, geo-tagging photos | Comments (0)

is Google my ePortfolio?

June 8, 2007 – 9:46 am

ePortfolios have been around for a long time now and the range and diversity of ePortfolio implementations is, well, staggering. There are a lot of commercial software offerings and most eLearning platforms seem to have a portfolio component. Large numbers of schools, training organisations and higher education organisations have developed their own and […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, e-portfolio, google | Comments (7)

on blogging

June 5, 2007 – 1:52 pm

Technology plays a large part in the work I do and while I have made a commitment to try and blog about technology and its application relation to our work it is interesting to see just how difficult this can be at times. There are some quite natural constraints for work blogging which in […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, social networking, Twitter, blogging | Comments (1)