You’ve no doubt heard of the One Laptop Per Child education project, whose goal is ‘to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves’. Today the education.au office has been graced by the presence of one of the recent versions of the OLPC, thanks to one of our […]
The WaSP Education Task Force and W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group propose the creation of a curriculum framework to help educators teach best practices in Web design and development more effectively. Upon completing modules in such a curriculum, a student should have sound knowledge of best practices and a solid foundation upon which to build.
An interesting article about the proliferation of text clouds, one of many predecessors to the ubiquitous tag cloud. Here at education.au we’re developing tag cloud functionality as another discovery mechanism for large resource repositories, so it’s exciting to see them gradually appearing in a variety of applications around the web. For the […]
Continuing with Jerry’s trend, here are the Firefox add-ons I’m currently using, ordered from ‘Can’t live without’ to ‘*shrug* it’s kinda useful’.
Searching through the non-fiction shelves of my local library is now just a tad more annoying than it used to be since perusing the results of a December 2006 survey outlining the demographics of ‘taggers’ and accompanying interview with David Weinberger.
In a forthcoming book Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, David […]
First of all, if you’re thinking this post is going to discuss the merits of being able to reach your cleaning products, then you should probably stop reading now or go and read about Ajax as defined by a propeller-head. If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of this asynchronous web development technique […]
The countdown to the 2006 Sydney Moodle Conference is almost complete with the first keynote kicking off at 9:15am tomorrow morning. Its been almost two years since we first started evaluating potential candidates for our much needed Collaborative Workspace and I must admit that I initially gave Moodle the thumbs down! It was […]
One of our busiest site’s interfaces is getting a serious accessibility and standards-compliance overhaul, something I’ve been looking forward to doing for a while. I’m in the midst of development and rapidly approaching the launch deadline, but working on the search interface got me thinking about the recent Accessible Google Search that came out […]
Audio and notes from Ted Rheingold’s talk at the recent Carson Workshops summit: The Future of Webapps. I’ve been well aware of the buzz surrounding the summit and have been patiently waiting for podcasts to appear on the sites of the various speakers or their entourages. Ted’s talk was titled ‘The State, Future […]
