Those who read this blog via an aggregator are probably not aware that we’ve just pushed out a refreshed front page for the blogs.educationau.edu.au site:
You’ll note that this now exposes blog post categories in the now-traditional tag-cloud interface, backed by a sophisticated search built using the open source Solr search engine. This implementation allows search […]
Google Books now enables you to embed fragments from books scanned by the Google book scanning project on your website.
Further details are available on the Inside Google Book Search blog.
Somehow I missed danah boyd’s paper “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” until today.
I think it’s pretty much a must-read for anyone working in this space:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to […]
I’ve just been playing with an early prototype of the “$100″ laptop (yes, I know it won’t be $100…)
Very, very nice.
At education.au we’ve had an ongoing project to develop a tool to do accessibility checking for learning management systems behind logins.
Most existing accessibility tools use 3rd party webservices to do analysis of websites, and these services cannot see behind secure logins.
The education.au Accessibility Toolbar is a Firefox plugin which does accessibility checking on the […]
Wikipedia’s use in education continues to be controversial. I think that’s a pity, because the Wikipedia contains huge amounts of useful information, and - perhaps even more importantly - using it teaches very important lessons in the analysis of information sources.
In this post I’m going to summarize a few simple methods for analyzing any given […]
Kerrie blogged yesterday about a recent release of data from the ABS. The bit which caught my attention was:
my first thought was - what lovely statistical stuff for kids to play with in Excel. For example in a file called Schools by category, we have snapshots of numbers of schools in Government, Catholic, and Independent […]
