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Monthly Archives: October 2006

Subscribing to feeds in FireFox 2

Firefox 2.0 has just been released, and should become the browser of choice for many people.
One of its many improvements is a much better way to subscibe to website RSS feeds.
In this post I’ll show how you can subscribe to the rss feed for blogs.educationau.edu.au.
Firstly, download and install Firefox 2.0. This post will still be […]

A custom search engine for blogs.educationau.edu.au

The blogs.educationau.edu.au site has now been going for nearly 2 months, and has been quite successful. There have been over 80 posts by 9 different authors, over 10,000 pageloads and around 40 subscribers according to FeedBurner (as well as many subscribers who subscribe to individual blogs).
This success has caused a few problems, most notably the […]

Social Software in Teaching and Learning

Val Evans over at the Social Software for Learning blog asks
What about using social software, viz blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and virtual conferencing in the VTE teaching and learning environment? How are they being used now? How could they be used better? Which disciplines do they suit best? Should they be used at all?
And what […]

DEST Report on Research Communication Costs

Tom Worthington recently pointed at a new DEST report: RESEARCH COMMUNICATION COSTS IN AUSTRALIA: EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES AND BENEFITS.
It outlines some really interesting thinking about the importance of Open Access and the changing nature of scholarly publishing.
The whole report is worth reading, but the part that grabbed my attention is:
In the longer term, the evolution of […]