Nate, it’s pretty simple, you just need to hire me ;o) [and I’m only partly joking…]
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Elearning Australian Magazine
Here’s to the success of Albert’s new Australian elearning print magazine… they’re looking for authors too!
Shock news: Flinging iPods at learners does not facilitate learning
OK, perhaps that’s a bit OTT but from what I can gather Duke have set themselves up for a nasty fall if they’re looking for a 6 month impact on T&L outcomes. Via Ray, this article goes into some serious detail about the project. Media stunt or not it’s an interesting experiment in the use …
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Outstanding
Looks like Hugh is on a CC licence which lets me img src this which is cool, because it’s very very funny. [gapingvoid]
Raindrops falling into the pool
Wow, Chris Abraham leaves the kind of comment on one of my OSN05 posts that really deserves more than comment status. Essentially I was trying to describe a semi-latticed environment in the usual “So how do you draw a circle in Fireworks?” kind of way and Chris commented that he sees the online environment more …
Gmail as a file server
Outstanding, Josie points to an Engadget feature on turning your Gmail account to a file server… now all we need is a simple implementation / uses plan from Edugadget!
Moodle anyone?
John Blake is doing some great stuff using Moodle through IncSub! Unfortunately I can’t support that many IncSub Moodle Installs at the moment (it’s 50+ MB on it’s own!) but future developments should be able to provide some options, get yerself on the IncSub mailing list or grab the RSS feed to stay informed!
Kid-safe blogging
Via Will and the (never paranoid) Australian Federal Government … comments from moi in [bold]: * Blog Topic – Select a topic for your blog that is sensible and you think other would enjoy reading about. [others, right… so first up you should write about what other people want to read… hmmmmm] * Password Protect …
Domain Names
Hmmm, am thinking with the brewing relaunch of IncSub (which part of is going to be offering up my services in a kind of solutions / consulting capacity… outside of the day job of course!) that I’d do well to get an .au domain as well as the .org (so a .org.au which comes to …
‘All in one’ multi-user blogging tools
A definite distinction is starting to form in this whole multi-user blogging approach between the ‘all in one’ solutions and the more-or-less independent possibilities. For example with Drupal you can either give each user an install of Drupal as their own blog/CMS or you can have one install of Drupal and users can maintain their …