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Hi y'all

I'm in the process of starting a new wiki trying to explain ICT concepts in really simple terms.  Some students might be new to things like WebCT and Lectopia and others might like to have RSS, mashup mapping and tagging explained to them.  It'd be verrry interesting to see how many UWA staff could benefit from a beginners guide to ICT.

Anyhoo, I'll be putting up content over the next few weeks so feel free to add to my new wiki (Sam that means YOU).  

The faculty that had the most respondents to the NODE student survey that owned laptops was Law. 81% of respondents from Law had laptops whereas overall 57% of students responding owned laptops.

Students from Engineering, Computer Science and Maths were most likely to access the internet more than twice a day -74% of respondents do. Followed by Med students (62%) and Business School students (63%). FECM students were also most likely to use Instant Messenger at least twice a day (35%).

The NODE team was keen to know what students' experiences and expectations were of ICTs. Many assumptions are made about what students know, what access  to laptops, broadband, mobile phones etc they have and what they expect of the University's IT environment. So we thought we would ask.

There are a number of ways to create a blog entry. The first and most simple way is to click on the 'create new blog entry' menu option under my account > my blog in the left hand navigation menu:

These pages at transition.uwa.edu.au contain a lot of useful information on IT access and support in your Faculty. Get IT...

Ever want to be like Mark Russinovich who found out about the sony rootkit, but never had the skills?

Well, theres an easy way to find out which software is secretly spy ware. 

It's quite simple: 

1. Get a new PC, do not connect it to the internet

2. Install software

Have the possibilities provided through ICT as a tool to enhance student learning been overestimated? Professor Judyth Sachs, DVC Macquarie University, talks on this topic on Thursday 10 May at 6pm in the Geography Lecture Theatre. This is a free public lecture as part of teaching month so if you're interested, come along.

The Library has recently introduced a couple of new toys that make it a little more convenient to search the catalogue.

Firstly, there's a gadget that you can add to your Google Personalised Home page.  It will let you search by Title, Author, Keyword or ISBN/ISSN.

Just checking that when I post this blog, the content will remain...have lost so many entries recently that I thought I'd do a test run!