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Sally Loan

MIT BLOSSOMS (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) - 0 views

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video blended opencourseware

shared by Sally Loan on 26 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Sally Loan on 26 Jan 11
     
    An item shared during Google Apps for Education sessions. BlOSSOMS is a blended learning open source for science or maths studies.  Very nicely done video in their library.
Eveleen Er

Collection of Educational Tools for Second Life - 2 views

muvenation.org/cational-tools-for-second-life

secondlife

shared by Eveleen Er on 28 Feb 11 - Cached
  • The book is presently under a last quality control review prior to public release and it should be available by the end of March 2010. The book will be downloadable with no cost from Lulu.com, and it will be also available for printing on demand as a paperback in colour and in B&W, from Lulu.
  • Ashley Tan on 28 Feb 11
     
    Nice find!
Ashley Tan

New journal on e-portfolios - 1 views

www.tonybates.ca/...new-journal-on-e-portfolios

cel e-portfolios journal

shared by Ashley Tan on 01 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Virginia Tech’s Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER – not to be mistaken with the much more famous Canadian Institute of Distance Education Research at Athabasca University) has established a new International Journal of ePortfolio. The first issue will be published during the summer of 2011.
Pratima Majal

20 Top Educational Tweeters: EdTech | The Creative Education Blog - 0 views

www.creativeeducation.co.uk/...edtech-tweeters

shared by Pratima Majal on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
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  • Pratima Majal on 23 Mar 11
     
    Ed Tech tweeters you might want to consider following!
Sally Loan

The future of distance learning is calling | Education | Guardian Weekly - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ce-messages-tesol-delotbiniere

future learning

shared by Sally Loan on 11 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • enhance their learning experience with the use of some simple and low-cost digital tools.
  • She says tutors began to create a more effective, time-saving combination of text and audio. "They found they could write quick little annotations on students' essays and then elaborate more in the audio feedback."
  • The research also revealed that students appeared more willing to listen to feedback via audio than to commit time to reading written comments.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • They also said that they put more effort into their audio submissions because they knew fellow students would be listening and they didn't want to appear stupid.
Ashley Tan

Dr Jonathan Reed - Child Neuropsychology » Blog Archive » What makes a good e... - 3 views

www.drjonathanreed.co.uk/...es-a-good-educational-ipad-app

CeL mobile apps design features

shared by Ashley Tan on 24 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Tan on 24 May 11
     
    Reflections of an app designer/creator who creates apps for kids. Something for the apps teams to read, reflect and consider incorporating.
  • Shamini Thilarajah on 24 May 11
     
    Clear guidelines that it's sure worth incorporating!
Ashley Tan

Apple Study Trip: Day 2 ~ ICT For Educators - 5 views

ictforeducators.com/...apple-study-trip-day-2.html

ipad education mobile learning CeL

shared by Ashley Tan on 04 Jun 11 - No Cached
  •  When students were given their own iPad, they were given full autonomy of their device and had to set it up from scratch. They set up all of their own accounts and installed their own apps, from a combination of required apps to those which they chose themselves. Each student was given a $40 iTunes gift card to use for their purchases. Experience showed that true success relied on moving away from the school being the "boss" of the machine to one where it was student driven and student managed. 
  • It was found that the Ipads are very different from laptops in that students can really relate to them and, when used, they do not become the focus of the learning. Instead they become one device which can be used with all learning tools that students have access to. The iPad became the "red pen" where much of the work got done in other ways and the iPad was used when needed. Laptop computers control thinking and control the desk. When used, they become the focus of the learning. iPads are a technology which has really changed the way students work with computers in the classroom. The real challenge for staff is to embrace this and to understand that you can't expect to have iPads in the classroom and teach the same way that you did when you didn't have them. It changes the way students work and they way teachers teach. 
  • yeuann on 07 Jul 11
     
    Like your comment about how the iPads don't become the focus of the learning. That's a thought that's been on my mind recently - the importance of the perception of "seamlessness" in tech usage. That's probably one of the most important reasons a technology gets adapted - no matter how cumbersome it seems at first (e.g. learning how to drive a car) - because the normal usage of the technology doesn't hinder the intended task at hand. (That's why once you learn to ride a bike, you don't think so much about the bicycle itself as you think about moving faster.) Think Donald Norman in "The Design of Everyday Things" has a term for this: affordability. So I guess, my thought on the usage of the iPad (and any new tech at hand): The learning of the new tech need not be intuitive. But the everyday usage has to seamlessly flow with the given task at hand - so that the tool and the user become "one" with the task. (Just like how a user fumbles with a pair of chopsticks at first, but once he masters it, his chopsticks "become" part of his fingers.) Then such seamless technologies get seamlessly adopted as "cognitive-multipliers".
Ashley Tan

Twitter finds a place in the classroom - CNN.com - 0 views

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twitter CeL video

shared by Ashley Tan on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Teachers across the country have been incorporating Twitter into classrooms for a few years, but the site's adoption by educational institutions appears to be limited. A survey of 1,920 U.S. teachers published in April found that 2% of them use the micro-blogging site in college lectures. About half those polled said the use of Twitter and Facebook in class is harmful to the learning experience, according to the study from consulting firm Pearson Learning Solutions. Still, Legaspi is hopeful. When he explained the plan to his students at Hollenbeck Middle School in East Los Angeles, he learned that only one of them had used Twitter. But most, he said, live on their phones. So getting them started wasn't difficult.
  • Legaspi said shy students are benefiting the most. For "a lot of them, what it did is help find their voice," he said. "I have many students that do not participate in my classes or share what's on their mind, so Twitter became that vehicle." Several students praised the new approach. "It's a great way to get people to notice you," said Oscar Lozoria, a shy 14-year-old with long hair that other students used to tease him about. He said Twitter has changed how his peers view him. "They see me as somebody now -- as an equal," he said. Ivan Sabaria, also 14, said Twitter makes learning more fun. "I'm paying attention and doing all my work," he said.
  • Occasionally, the students will type in something inappropriate during class. Still, Legaspi is convinced he has discovered the future of education. "I get feedback on the spot. Not only that, all the students can see what they're sharing," he said. "This is powerful."
yeuann

How I used m-learning to help a P4 boy improve his English - 6 views

Sure, Ashley! Glad you like this... please go ahead and share with your class! :)

mobile Apps iphone m-learning

started by yeuann on 22 Jul 11 2 follow-ups, last by yeuann on 24 Jul 11
bernard tan

Hybrid mobile apps take off as HTML5 vs. native debate continues | VentureBeat - 1 views

venturebeat.com/...ml5-vs-native-debate-continues

web mobile hybrid HTML5 iphone

shared by bernard tan on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • A hybrid app is a native, downloadable app, that runs all or some of its user interface in an embedded browser component. To the user, a hybrid app is almost indistinguishable from a native one: it is downloaded from the app store or marketplace, it is stored on the device, and it is launched just like any other app
  • simply load some pages from their web site as part of the app
  • many companies are not already jumping on the HTML5 bandwagon is the belief that HTML apps cannot access native device features. Indeed, pure mobile web apps
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  • hybrid apps, frameworks such as the open source PhoneGap library make it possible for JavaScript code to query the compass, take pictures, find or create contacts and appointments, and tap many other device features that mobile web apps are barred from accessing
  • Access to device features is not the only difference between hybrid apps and mobile web apps. Another important difference is that hybrid apps are mostly distributed through app stores: You don’t browse to a hybrid app
  • the leading smartphones and tablets have very powerful HTML rendering engines, which already support most of the upcoming HTML5 and CSS3 standards
  • Other organizations are developing hybrid apps, while planning to turn them into HTML5 web apps in the future without having to rewrite them from scratch
  • From a strategic point of view, development organizations should seriously consider adopting HTML for mobile app development sooner rather than later. The hybrid app model, although not suitable for all app development needs, provides a cost-effective solution for a very wide range of downloadable app types and allows gradual entry into the new world of HTML5 while future-proofing your investment.
  • bernard tan on 25 Aug 11
     
    this article talks about the future of mobile app development... hybrid app which combines web technology with native devices supports ( camera, microphone, address book etc) Does make sense as it is cost effective not to rewrite the coding for each and every devices and also taking into consideration the time taken for constant content changes in educational environment here. maybe we should look into ths.
yeuann

Animated Tattoo Makes Great Use of QR Code | GeekDad | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...too-makes-great-use-of-qr-code

QR qr code mobile iphone video iPad

shared by yeuann on 13 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • With the continued penetration of smartphones into the mainstream market, QR codes are becoming more of an option for designers to prompt interaction. The two-dimensional barcode can easily be generated from text, including a website link, and printed on materials in magazines and conferences. An artist in Paris found an unusual use for the black-and-white squares: to animate a tattoo.
  • yeuann on 13 Aug 11
     
    Ok, I think this isn't ever going to make it into ANY school... but this is an amazing concept of how we can use QR codes to enhance real-world art in education... i.e. cyberspace meets meat-space (literally). An idea that I gained from this is that we could use this idea for, say, a printed picture book... if we scanned the QR code in the printed page using our iPhones, the moment the video loaded, we could just place our iPhones directly over the printed page, and it would give a compelling illusion that the printed page had suddenly come to life a la Harry Potter. :) BTW do watch the video from 2:05 onwards! :) (esp if you're squeamish about watching a tattoo process) Now, for an iPad-sized tattoo... any takers? ;) (Just kidding!)
  • yeuann on 13 Aug 11
     
    Another idea: Imagine we were doing a bio lesson and wanted our students to "see" a beating heart. We could get a mannequin and paste QR codes over the chest. Then the teacher can scan the QR code, load the corresponding Youtube video and place the mobile phone directly over the chest. The result would look to the students as though the phone was a magic window for them to peer through the chest to "see" the beating heart. So QR codes could be used for 3D object lessons too.
Kartini Ishak

Evernote for Students: The Ultimate Research Tool - Education Series « Everno... - 3 views

blog.evernote.com/...research-tool-education-series

evernote productivity learning

shared by Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Organizing in Evernote
  • Access Information Anywhere, No Thumb Drive Necessary As a student, you’re all over the place: in class on your mobile device, at the gym, in your dorm room, at the library, etc. With Evernote, files, notes and documents are available to you everywhere – on your phone, your desktop, and anywhere you have an internet connection. That means that if you’re working in a computer lab, all your research is there. If you lost your thumb drive before your presentation, you can pull up your PowerPoint from a friend’s laptop. Having everywhere access to your Evernote account also means you can make great use of the in-between time we all tend to have. Whether you’re waiting for the bus, or for class to start, you can make quick edits to anything you’re working on. Evernote puts everything in one place, and makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for, no matter where you are. If you’re doing research, alone or in a group, Evernote saves time and helps keep you organized.
  • Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11
     
    Tips on using Evernote - getting organized
  • Shamini Thilarajah on 22 Sep 11
     
    Thanks Tini! I can use some info for my training next week ;)
yeuann

App Store - Vibe - 0 views

itunes.apple.com/...id433067417

mobile apps chat geolocation iPhone

shared by yeuann on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • yeuann on 04 Oct 11
     
    Interesting social app that allow you to message (anonymous) people who are within a certain range of your phone... so far it has been used by protesters, but how can we use it for educational purposes?
Kartini Ishak

Classroom 2.0 - 0 views

www.classroom20.com

social media

shared by Kartini Ishak on 03 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Kartini Ishak on 03 Oct 11
     
    The social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.
Pratima Majal

Web 2.0 Guru - Web 2.0 Resources - 0 views

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web2.0 tools

shared by Pratima Majal on 19 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Pratima Majal on 19 Apr 11
     
    Good list of educational tools on this site!!
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