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New me.edu.au release

January 11, 2008 – 11:43 am

I’ve just done a new release of me.edu.au. This doesn’t have any large new features (we want to give it a chance to bed down before adding stuff), but there are a couple of minor enhancements which are worth highlighting.
Firstly, as previously mentioned we’ve changed the “Browse Communities” screen so that communities with activity are […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, me.edu.au | Comments (2)

Two small me.edu.au easter eggs: RSS and APML support

December 24, 2007 – 12:02 pm

It’s Christmas tomorrow, which makes it the perfect time to mention two easter eggs [1] in me.edu.au.
Firstly, RSS output support for your activities. This lets someone else subscribe to what you are doing on me.edu.au. To see this go to your public profile (mine is http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian) and then append “/rss” to the address (eg, http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/rss).
Secondly, […]

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me.edu.au - a shared learning environment for educators

November 27, 2007 – 2:35 pm

One of the projects I’ve been working on has been the me.edu.au professional networking site. Those following the me blog may have some idea of what we’ve been doing, but now we have launched the site so I’d invite everyone to have a look:

Please be aware that it isn’t feature complete, and the site you […]

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Facebook vs MySpace: American class divisions

June 29, 2007 – 11:56 am

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 […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (3)

Taxonomy directed folksonomies

December 13, 2006 – 1:00 pm

Here at education.au we have a number of experts in metadata management and information organisation. As you’d expect in that environment the rise of folksonomies has generated a great deal of discussion.
As part of a new project here at education.au I’ve been exploring how to combine the two into something I’ve named a taxonomy directed […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, Metadata | Comments (13)

Social Software in Teaching and Learning

October 19, 2006 – 8:56 pm

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 […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, Blogging, syndication | Comments (2)

DEST Report on Research Communication Costs

October 4, 2006 – 2:09 pm

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 […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, Attention | Comments (1)

Metadata Repository + Social Network = LibraryThing

September 19, 2006 – 6:57 pm

I have recently become a user of LibraryThing. As a fairly heavy reader, I’ve found it one of the most useful social applications I’ve tried.
While it takes a while to enter your books (I’d estimate I’ve only done 10% of my collection) it is already showing me useful recomendations for books I haven’t read.
Interestingly, the […]

By Nick Lothian | Also posted in Educationau, Metadata | Comments (1)