Hello All,

I have just returned from the planning day for the TTI faculty at Philip Island and was keen to look into the software package on electronic collaboration presentation Nick C gave on - Trialling Webex.

Any info you can send my way would be fantastic.

Thankyou Haydn Radford

TTI faculty
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I was sent this link today. Yet another bright spark has now come up with an open source solution that means you can host Second Life on your own server. Pretty nifty idea when you consider the considerable problems around interoperability of a system like SL and Enterprise applications like VUSIS.

It'll be another thing that we'll ...view more»

Stephen Downes has been writing on the reaction from US and UK education on the news that BB has won a infringement of patent against Desire2Learn. There are, as Downes points out, a few things to remember. That the $3.1 million costs awarded won't have covered the cost of teh case; second, the settlement was much lower than what was being ...view more»

I posted earlier about generational difficulties. David Buckley from Westpac showed an interesting slide on who actually works there. The breakdown is 24% Baby Boomers, 50% Gen X, and 25% Gen Y (1% other...?). This means that 75% of the employees of Westpac are under 43. They are having a good old think about how to retain institutional ...view more»

Andrew McAfee was beamed into th conference today. He's at Harvard Business School, and coined the term 'Enterprise 2.0' some 18 months ago.
He's has this model based on the 70s paper 'The Strength of Weak Ties'. Basically it sees four concentric circles representing tied networks; strong, weak, potential and none.


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So here I am in Sydney at a one day conference on Enterprise 2.0 and what it means to and from you. Just had Ross Dawson do the opening speech. His first slide was one of the more interesting of the presentation. He raised the concept of teh weightless economy, or more specifically I think, the static weighted economy. Where the GDP of the ...view more»

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

Slightly hysterical but makes some good points and causes me to rethink my own membership on Facebook.

One of the owners is a far-right, libertarian. The CIA (through a commercial arm) owns a large amount of equity.

I tend to agree that the commercial ...view more»

First off a happy new year to you all.

A couple of friends through on some education related rss pieces a couple of days ago. Mary Stambouli the new Director of the Web Futures Group, and Kim Tari who's now out at Swinburne posted a piece about how a don at Brighton University has banned Google and Wikipedia. I suspect the good ...view more»

As we are approaching the festive season...a colleague sent me this today.

Swedish boy outthinks angry moose with Warcraft skillz

source: Boing Boing

tags: Games

A 12-year-old Swedish boy reportedly defended himself and his little sister from a moose attack by employing techniques he learned while attaining ...view more»

I've just finalised the professional development activities that the Flexible Learning Unit will be offering next year.

We've had some good feedback on the eLearning Passport that we offered in August and September so we'll be rolling that out for 2008. It's three days that covers eLearning and Pedagogy, our LMS (WebCT/Blackboard), ...view more»

I would like to encourage eLearning staff to carefully consider portal interoperability when looking at new middleware options for LMS, ePortfolios and the like.

At the moment we have a student portal (http://myvuportal.vu.edu.au) that provides students with the ability to access the student system (results, timetables, personal ...view more»

I came across this pretty cool Web2.0 application today. It's a cunning little app. that allows you to upload photos and then to comment on them. Nothing new there you may say; what you can do is attach different voices to the pic, so that you can get different points of view. I think this tool has great potential for assessment - getting ...view more»

Met with Louise Frith today. She's an Educational Developer working on PDPs, and is about to work on Internationalising the Curriculum. Louise is currently piloting a piece of software called PebblePAD. It's basically an e-portfolio that also has blogging facilities and can capture multimedia. It can also be exported as a website and individual ...view more»

Just met with Grainne Conole, who is Professor of eLearning at the Open University. She has a fascinating wealth of experience and is involved with a range of JISC, Hefce and Higher Education Academy projects.

We chatted about the HEA benchmarking project she has involvement in. I think that the benchmarking project here in the UK ...view more»