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It’s sort of like YouTube - edna.tv

29 August, 2008 – 1:45 pm

education.au, in a project funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, has recently had the opportunity to develop a proof of concept (POC) around the use of short educational videos - that is, a kind of YouTube service for education - through the edna project. The edna.tv proof of concept […]

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How do awful amateur videos meet user needs?

14 December, 2006 – 7:13 pm

Over the past several months I have been working on a project where a focus has been on investigating user needs in order to build a system that people from the education sector will use.
Obviously knowing what your users think they want is important. But do users really know what they want? If a user […]

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Webwag - the tail wagging the dog

27 September, 2006 – 2:48 pm

Social networking sites like YouTube and myspace have changed perceptions of the web. The idea behind those services is nothing new - bulletin boards, web forums and email lists have helped people connect with each other over the internet since its beginning. Email has been the most successful invention because it comes to the user - […]

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Innovative thinking - the role of the flaky weirdo

12 September, 2006 – 11:00 am

A lot of web time and meeting time goes into trying to be innovative. How can we come up with that new idea that will satisfy a need - be the need that of a student, teacher or education system? How will we come up with an idea that solves a problem in a new, […]

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Social networking and metrics

5 September, 2006 – 9:01 pm

The rise of social networking services such as myspace, YouTube, and de.lic.ious mean that we need to rethink how we determine a web service’s success. It used to be that success was measured according to hits - a blunt instrument at best. Then it was page views, unique visitors, links from other sites and other […]

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