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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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28 Jan 2010
Gridlinked (Ian Cormac, Book 1) by Neal Asher
Tor Science Fiction (2004), Mass Market Paperback, 432 pages
via Nick's Library Thing
16 Dec 2009
Testing messaging
via shared
Nick left a message on Alison Hall's whiteboard.
Testing whiteboard messages
via activity
WiTopia: Providers of PersonalVPN, Cloakbox, Online Privacy (Nick Lothian bookmarked this item)
nocleanfeed
via Nick's Delicious Bookmarks
15 Dec 2009
About Docstoc (Nick Lothian bookmarked this item)
repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.
via bookmark
24 Nov 2009
http://google-au.blogspot.com/2009/03/learning-in-cloud.html (Garry Putland bookmarked this item)
"The workshop demonstrated how Google Sites can be used to create an e-portfolio, allowing students to record, archive and share their work with peers, parents, class, school and the world"
shared in the eportfolio community
18 Nov 2009
Sharpe's Skirmish: Short Short (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series) by Bernard Cornwell
Sharpe Appreciation Society (2002), Edition: First edition thus (special edition), Paperback, 64 pages
via Nick's Library Thing
10 Nov 2009
The Cloud: a short introduction - Ars Technica (Nick Lothian bookmarked this item)
"We've put together this short, simple introduction to cloud computing that you can send to your CIO the next time you catch him abusing "the cloud" at a meeting."
via shared
02 Nov 2009
Solving a Sudoku using Recursive Subquery Factoring (Nick Lothian bookmarked this item)
via bookmark
30 Oct 2009
Cell Size and Scale (Nick Lothian bookmarked this item)
Zoom in to compare the scale of objects from a coffee bean to a carbon atom, via cells, virus and molecules.
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Nick Lothians Whiteboard

7 Sep 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
could we have a quiet talk here, cause i'd ike to invite nick and a few others to it. http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=28556&parent=118695
7 Sep 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
You have to excuse my lack of tech knowledge. I'm was talking to nick cross @ aarnet (http://www.aarnet.edu.au/upcoming-events/ozeconferences.aspx ) about how, eventually, we will need to make rtc stuff accessible to edna (and a few others like mitie) communities, http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/collaboration-services especially now eduau are talking about, in t scitas report, "Extend(ing) the Australian Access Federation (AAF) into a national cross-sectoral service for Trust, Identity and Access Control. By easy to access simply I maen we are probably going to need to go back to the Open Uni approach, and introduce a point of presence, (http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/012211.html ) to which additional functionality is added, if we are going to see the real time stuff acepted by communities that span the sectoral and institutional silos. Lacking any common roadmap, or any point of engagement, they can only "share best practice", where each considers theirs "the best". http://www.groups.edna.e
2 Sep 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
Hey Nick, Yu remember your comment on my page on 27 Jul 2009? I do agree with yu "that apps are the only reason why the networks are valuable". Primarily because they make a network's functionality easy to use (or at least they should). It's just we have this great network called aarnet, where the 'fat boys' come up with this kind of stuff. http://www.arcs.org.au/products-services/collaboration-services and don't use it to talk, http://www.arcs.org.au/forums (or much else from my discussions with them) while the edna knitting circles TALK about the kinds of functionality they can only dream about until someone like you extends the edna interface to the network functions in a "simple to use" manner. I do agree with yu; asynchronous is good. But we gotta get the I and C to work together (seamlessly and simply). Check out what Leon is up to. http://www.questnet.net.au/questnet2009/speakers.html#5
7 Aug 2009
Lynley Clark wrote
Looks great Nick. Thanks for all your hard work in getting this up and running. Ps - how would we go integrating a video conferencing tool into this instead of groups?
29 Jul 2009
Concetta Gotlieb wrote
Hi Nick Just thought you might be interested in this post about online communications successes and struggles http://me.edu.au/b/cgotlieb/entry/sdd_follow_up_amp_my
27 Jul 2009
simon fenton - jones wrote
Nick, Thought you may be interested in this conference for network engineers. (boys comparing the size of their pipes) http://qn2009vc.usq.edu.au/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=118 (am pointing you at the live stream/recordings page) Talking to a few of them. They seem to be pretty disgusted at education.au, learningfed, curricula.edu ignoring the bottom layers of the IP suite. Is there anyway you might be able to get your knitting circles to understand that their (app) layer is just the surface to a bunch of networks? Is there any consideration given, in education.au, to real time communications?
12 Jul 2009
Concetta Gotlieb wrote
Hi Nick I would have liked to have a chat before tomorrow morning but as it is I've been flat out this term. I'll be online from about 8am your time. You can send me a message on me or catch me on Skype concetta.gotlieb@mac.com See you tomorrow Chet
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
28 May 2009
Kerry Yin wrote
blah blah
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).
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