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LET link of the week

Experiment with your browser. Try:

• Ubiquity, a plugin for Firefox that makes it much, much easier to do things like find something on a map, find a definition or search Wikipedia.
• Google Chrome - a very fast and lightweight browser from Google.

Interesting session this Wednesday in the Academic Work Matters series

Wednesday 26 September, 12:30pm in FTLR. Follow the link to book: Web conferencing
Web conferencing systems are collections of tools which allow people to meet and interact synchronously at a distance. Users can talk to each other in high quality even at low bandwidths, send text messages, use a shared electronic whiteboard and share applications with others. Newer systems also provide video. In some ways they are like videoconferencing, except you are not tied to a specific facility, and you have extra tools to share. Sessions can also be recorded for later playback.

This session will explore ways that web conferencing systems can be used in academic work, showing examples of use at Murdoch and elsewhere to:

• facilitate research collaborations with other universities
• provide one-on-one support to external students
• provide virtual tutorials to students
• support students at remote campuses
• facilitate classes to students at multiple campuses

23 Things update

The blog is here http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/23things08/

Please register. Before 13 October 2008. Unless you are already 23 Things Certified.

Finding me in the next few weeks

I’ll be hard to catch in the next few weeks, as I am going on holidays and then will be attending a couple of conferences. I will, as usual,  be updating my Twitter stream, which you can view on the sidebar of my work web page: http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/kathryngreenhill/