Archive for January, 2009
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Going North Again
I can now confirm that I’ll be back in the territory in a little over a week’s time. It’s my first time back there in over 18 months, and it’ll be my first experience of a Northern Territory wet season, so I can’t wait. The reason I’m going is to do some work for the [...]
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
The future of education?
I read in this morning’s Herald that a school in Victoria has been trialing the use of iPods for facilitating school work. iTouches1 are being used to research and submit assignments, to download music and for students to communicate with their teachers over email. The results so far suggest that students are much more likely [...]
