We’ve just launched blogs for all me.edu.au users, as part of the edna suite of services. I have some more technical details on my me.edu.au blog.
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Open DSM
February 20, 2008 – 2:25 pm
One thing I’ve been working on over the past few month has been preparing OpenDSM for release as an open source product (See Jerry’s blog for more details). It’s been an interesting task - DSM is a mature product with years of development behind it. That has the benefit that it is stable and well […]
The social graph: claims and verfication
February 14, 2008 – 3:54 pm
The latest version of me.edu.au adds support for XFN: The XHTML Friends Network. This makes it possible for tools to automagically link your multiple online identities together.
XFN uses a system of claims and verifications to determine how online identities are linked together. Claims are made using HTML links, using the rel=”me” attribute. If the […]
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, […]
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 […]
The new blogs.educationau.edu.au site
September 20, 2007 – 4:37 pm
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 […]
Subscribing to feeds in FireFox 2
October 25, 2006 – 11:25 am
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 […]
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 […]
RSS and Atom: A comparative study
September 25, 2006 – 1:37 pm
The US Intelligence Community recently released a study comparing RSS and Atom. The findings are interesting (if somewhat predictable):
If you must use RSS, then we recommend RSS 0.91 or RSS 2.0, preferably the latter.
However, for all of the reasons presented in this paper, we recommend a gradual transition to Atom 1.0 for the Intelligence Community […]
