Learning with the Fang

Professor Tanya Monro and her team at the Adelaide Centre of Expertise in Photonics are pleased to announce the birth of one very special little Optical Fibre – with a very slender ‘half a micron’ (or 500 nanometres) core. This breakthrough will enable some very interesting experiments around leading edge theory from the Centre.
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You may be aware that I have a new role at the University of Adelaide that allows me to spend some time in the world class Centre of Expertise in Photonics, led by Professor Tanya Monro. You may not be be aware that the Centre is expanding and that there are up to seven new [...]

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Some things of interest noticed in the second week of June, 2008.
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Mars Phoenix lander podcast (discovered via twitter)
USA Universities grapple with Peer to Peer file sharing legislation
Education.au ’s Mark Tranthim-Fryer talks about some services for Aussie educators

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There is an old saying about quality and software development that sometimes rattles round my olde brain ‘quality must be baked in, not tested out’. I think a similar idea can be applied successfully when thinking about accessibility.
Dave (LifeKludger) Wallace has just given birth to an important post that has been gestating for a while:
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Made a smashing morning tea for my work colleagues today – thanks to Mandy and Rhoda for their help and suggestions. The avocado, lime, danish fetta and cracked pepper on rye was a hit! So much so that Dr Mel made an impromptu modification of her DNA Isolation experiment (to be used with students) – [...]

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