On November 21 there was the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, Conference, Education held at Macquarie University. As normal i rocked up late, not to late but missed the morning introductions. Enjoyed the morning talk on LAMS and its use for facilitating open education. There was also a discussion from DET about how they are trying to use open software to facilitate teacher collaboration. There was opposition present from TAFE teachers who believe management are…

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The first Drupal Camp Australia happened with great success. The venue was booked out and rooms where overflowing. The Australian Learning and Teaching Council proudly sponsored Lunch for the event. People had traveled from all around Australia and New Zealand. There was two rooms with the streams split across both rooms. The facility was fantastic great catering provided (thanks Australian Learning Teaching Council and Cochlear). I learnt alot from the day and was fantastic to…

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Thursday, August 21st 2008 I nervously accepted to give a talk this month. Nervous as it as only been since April that I have been working extensively with Drupal. Only a month before just finishing my last custom content management system. I had worked alot with Joomla, Gallery, phpBB and multitudes of open source systems over the years but I had not really had a deep need to be exposed to Drupal. I had looked…

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