Category Archives: General

This is probably just me but the thing I’ve probably dragged to my taskbar the most times to have then never used is the ‘blog it’ button, as demonstrated in one of it’s many forms by Charlie at Cyberdash. Perhaps it’s because all of my links seem to come through RSS (when I have my […]

Thanks to Mira who suggested CDex for ripping the .mp3 from the Audacity .wav :o) So here’s a test .mp3 file, me testing podcasting and talking about a possible use [link removed for anonymity purposes]. And just for luck I’ll try and see if we get some auto enclosure tags too: Might have worked… still […]

Am trying to podcast, desperately trying! I get the principle: you record .mp3 file, blog it and then other people can aggregate it. But… …Audacity has, for some unknown-to-me reason stopped being able to export .mp3s. I’ve tried everything but it just ‘aint a go :o( [does anyone know any other decent open source .mp3 […]

[I would’ve posted this as a comment to Michael’s piece if the comment login procedures didn’t make me groan so ;o)] Interesting view on Robodemo over at e-Literate, apparently it’s absolutely pants when it comes to interactivity which doesn’t surprise me as when we’ve tried to do ‘fancy’ things such as mouse movements, scrolling, full […]

Interesting articles (lost the referrer, sorry) today, A Student View of CMS by Ryan Tansey. As it happens yesterday I was on the ground participating in a research study regarding our CMS. I interviewed 30 students (90% undergrad and all on campus) and the overwhelming response I got was not dissimilar to the views expressed […]

From Anol at Soulsoup (which is now a 404!): “mBlog, the free MT based blog hosting service where my SoulSoup was hosted discontinued their service without any notice! I don’t have any backup of my last 8 months of blogposts (more than 450 posts). There is no way I can contact them – I mailed […]

Some graffiti spotted the other day in Sydney:

This is pretty cool, post it notes on the web, with feeds! Have a looksee at mine, hmmmm possibilities.

Thought I’d just do a quick run through of some of the innovate (title graphic small ‘i’, text big ‘I’ – I know about those problems ;o) articles I found of interest, now much as I was singing it’s praises yesterday having a good look at it (past the registration which Stephen rightly gets annoyed […]

After the depressing events of Saturday (via email) we have a new anonymously penned version of the national anthem (here’s the tune if you’d like to hum along): Australians all let us rejoice, For we have tasted greed; Our interest rates mean more to us, Than mere humanity; Our land abounds with credit cards And […]

Am playing around with non-synchronous audio visual presentation tools at the moment. To my great surprise the PowerPoint (2002) broadcast tool isn’t that bad (IE only, ahem) & I like the way you can easily do a webcam with it. In an ideal world I’d be able to use Breeze for PowerPoints but ho hum… […]

So, goodbye beloved Radio so simple and effective a launching pad into this blogging world and yet so disturbing and aggravating a long term partner. I will most certainly miss your cosy text editor, your simplest of category postings and your solid desktop feeling. However, I don’t mean to be harsh, but your horrible habit […]

What more can I say, it’s from Technology Source (which should probably consider sorting out it’s archives) Man, James L. Morrison, has an RSS feed and has taken a departure from the flashy graphics to a world of blog (in may ways!). It’s the innovate journal of online education and I like it :o)

Good post at Blogsperiment entitled ‘The WHAT of Blogging’. Looks whether blogs need a clear purpose, especially in course blogging… which is a pretty important question if you ask me. Includes a very good overview of several teachers thoughts and findings when it comes to the practicalities of getting your learners blogging. Blogsperiment is a […]

Hey, check it out! The papers made the Furl top 30… now imagine if I’d just released that in the conference proceedings… what kind of audience might I have had, 20… 25? Happy :O)

I know the title sounds a little simplistic, to say the least, but it’s one of those things that’s been simmering away with me for a couple of months now and I thought I’d let it out here. First up, I think we can probably assume that a significant part, if not the majority, of […]

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Online learning environments (OLEs) are now critical to teaching and learning across Australian higher education. Their influence impacts on the availability of content, the design of courses and, perhaps most pedagogically significantly, the nature of communication. The discussion board is the ubiquitous communication tool within these OLEs and hence significantly shapes the kind of communication […]