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I work for education.au on me.edu.au, edna.edu.au, scootle.edu.au and various other things..
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01 Jul 2009
Gunning fog index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Nick Lothian commented on this item)
In linguistics, the Gunning fog index is a test designed to measure the readability of a sample of English writing. The resulting number is an indication of the number of years of formal education that a person requires in order to easily understand the text on the first reading. That is, if a passage has a fog index of 12, it has the reading level of a U.S. high school senior. The test was developed by Robert Gunning, an American businessman, in 1952.[1]
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Note the 1952 development date. An interesting literacy debate - have the scales (literacy levels) changed in 59 years? How? Why? I am in an online conference where participants are down on presenters who wrote papers rather than presenting in slide chunks of text, or audio.  -  Pru Mitchell
I've always liked the Gunning index and other automated measures of readability. I think we could use them a lot more.  -  Nick Lothian
30 Jun 2009
Sharpe's Siege (Richard Sharpe's Adventure Series #18) by Bernard Cornwell
Penguin (2001), Paperback, 320 pages
via Nick's Library Thing
Halting State (Ace Science Fiction) by Charles Stross
Ace (2008), Edition: Reprint, Paperback, 336 pages
via Nick's Library Thing
The Star Fraction (Fall Revolution) by Ken MacLeod
Tor Books (2001), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 320 pages
via Nick's Library Thing
18 Jun 2009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/2555438908/in/set-72157605034147388/
Random photo from PowerHouse's photo collection on Flickr
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I think I will have to teach myself a little bit more about Geotagging photos to get this type of thing happening :) I have much to learn...  -  Alison Hall
SBDS Prototype 0.1 (Nick Lothian commented on this item)
A fantastic resource for all kinds of media bits and pieces. Tags: media library Posted by: concetta
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Others have discussed this - Alison I think. Interesting that it hasn't aggregated comments. Perhaps we have used slightly different urls.  -  Pru Mitchell
The other discussion of this was around the URL http://allinbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2009/05/sbds-prototype-not-as-boring-as-it.html  -  Nick Lothian
There was also some commentary on this URL http://sbdsproto.nla.gov.au/sbdp-ui/general/about  -  Alison Hall
made your suggestions to the guys. Of course you could always invite them to set up here. nick. you might want to talk to simon or kent about using me.edu.au as their SSO. (on their plannedlist)  -  simon fenton - jones
17 Jun 2009
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/whatsnew.html (Nick Lothian commented on this item)
The latest of what is new in Google Docs.
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mmm.. drawings....  -  Nick Lothian
Official Google Docs Blog: New Google Web Elements for Spreadsheets and Presentations (Nick Lothian commented on this item)
At Google I/O, the concept of copy/paste development was introduced in the form of Google Web Elements. For Google spreadsheets and presentations, these web elements offer a quick way to get a snippet of code that allows you to embed your document anywhere on the web.
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I've just tried this out and see that it could have some great potential within moodle as it gives you an embed code.  -  Lynley Clark
Yes looks really promising  -  Alison Hall
Could be a very useful tool in Moodle; for example the results of a survey could be displayed with up to the minute updates. Can you let me know where you have included it in Moodle. Nick  -  Nicholas Cutajar
Loving google docs - I have embedded their calander on school website (agenda and full) and a class info form on or class website. Too easy with embed code provided and you are able to modify design. check them out at: www.willungaps.sa.edu.au http://web.me.com/ali.colbeck  -  Alison Colbeck
Looks great Alison. Wonder if one can change the skin (colour scheme, etc.)  -  Nicholas Cutajar
yes you can Nicholas - but limited options available. So easy to use though  -  Alison Colbeck
@Alison - I really like how you've used the calendar embedding thing on your school site.  -  Nick Lothian
@Nick - thanks! was an eleventh hour kind of thing but adds a new dimension to website - makes it useful for community  -  Alison Colbeck
I haven't done it on a public page in our Groups moodle but I have been able to embedd a GoogleDocs PowerPoint into my private space. I wrote up the steps here http://allinbitsandpieces.blogspot.com/2009/06/integrating-google-docs-to-moodle.html  -  Alison Hall
that looks like ti works well  -  Nick Lothian
Stupeflix - Video creation made easy - Welcome (Nick Lothian commented on this item)
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Drag and drop to create and then embed - sounds too good to be true  -  Alison Hall
wow I'm going to have a look at that! Another one for our ICT MeNtoring group?  -  Lynley Clark
yeah good idea - It looks like even you or I could make something quite snazzy ;)  -  Alison Hall
Just a random test comment..  -  Nick Lothian
I think I am going to like this!  -  Alison Colbeck
16 Jun 2009
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/academic-source-code-dust-up-symptom-of-cs-education-ills.ars
"When San Jose State University student Kyle Brady published the source code of his completed homework assignments after finishing a computer science class, his professor vigorously objected. The professor insisted that publication of the source code constituted a violation of the school's academic integrity policy because it would enable future students to cheat."
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On 16 Jun 2009 Concetta Gotlieb wrote
Hi Nick Was great to catch up with you in person. I'm finally really putting faces and personalities to names. Hope I was helpful. Don't hesitate to ask if you want any further feedback or ideas from the teachers I work with. Good luck with your trip. Chet
On 28 May 2009 Kerry Yin wrote
blah blah
On 5 May 2009 simon fenton - jones wrote
The coneference organiser (informa) said they'd have the links up to presentations in the next seven days. And yes, I've already suggestd they should explain that and put "coming soon". BTW. Rob doughty, who looks after the apps dev at centrelink seems to think it wouldn't be much of a problem in issuing me.edu.au certificates so it could become the SSO in the .edu.au domains - something like AGOSP is doing in the .gov.au domains. Would probably enable us to start breaking down the barriers, rather than SCITAS doing another report for DEEWR (or whatever agency is their favorite).
On 24 Apr 2009 Lynley Clark wrote
Hi Nick doing a workshop in Toowoomba on me.edu.au and had a question regarding Trackback in the blogs. What does this mean?
On 24 Apr 2009 Nick Lothian wrote
another test
On 24 Apr 2009 Nick Lothian wrote
testing
On 24 Apr 2009 Charmaine Clancy wrote
Hi Nick, no I haven't seen an example on wikispaces to have the hidden comment box, I guess I just assumed if it was possible in MS Word then it would be out there somewhere in the online community? This is my first wiki ever, so I figured my limitations would be due to me not knowing rather than it not being possible. Maybe I will just have to stick to the basics for now. Thanks
On 16 Apr 2009 Matthew Hamra wrote
Hi Nick, thanks for the suggestion, much appreciated
On 26 Aug 2008 Nick Lothian wrote
test message
On 22 Aug 2008 simon fenton - jones wrote
Nick, Can you point me at your taxonomies for folksonomies paper, thanks.
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