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Henry This is a guidelines for developing video contents for Android. It describes the constraints, dimensions and encoding methods. See if it helps in your projects

An article on how the Kinect could help in education.

Pragmatic tips for developing mLearning projects...

While what the author suggested is a simple start, it is a bad one for the long run. Why? It replicates exactly what you can already do more logically and perhaps more easily in other platforms. It's best to have the change in pedagogy or strategy in mind when designing apps or creating an m-learning system. Our mission is to leverage on learning outside the classroom, on the move or in more meaningful contexts.

Thanks for the tip, Dr Ashley!

When I think about "infrastructure", I normally think about roads, wires, sewerage and so on. But how about educational technology and instructional design? From reading Don Norman's musings about infrastructure, I realized that if we want our technological implementations to be successfully adopted, very often it's essential to also consider the infrastructure needed to support our tech designs and implementations. Personally, I think infrastructure for education and instructional design need not always be physical things. They could be intangibles such as having to update a database, notify the relevant people in charge, call this person or that to come unlock the computer lab, etc. My mum's been a teacher for 40+ years. She's great. But she really hates the computer. Not because of the learning needed to use Microsoft Word. She's quite fine with it. But it's all the non-Microsoft Word things that she has to do - reboot, turn the computer on, manage the files, etc... - that makes her scream.  "It is time to work on infrastructure. It threatens to dominate our lives with ugliness, frustration, and work. We need to spend more time on the designs for infrastructure. We need to make it more attractive, more accessible, and easier to maintain. Infrastructure is intended to be hidden, to provide the foundation for everyday life. If we do not respond, it will dominate our lives, preventing us attending to our priory concerns and interests and instead, just keeping ahead of the maintenance demands." - Don Norman Food for thought: What are some underlying "infrastructure" (tangible and intangible) that I may encounter in an educational technology project? Are there existing infrastructure that I can take advantage of to minimize time and $? How can we minimize the amount of infrastructure maintenance needed?

WeVideo is a collaborative online video creation tool. In the video editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video. The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes WeVideo collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you. 

Interesting! What if we could do something similar - a website where collaborators can gather from all over the world to work on e-learning strategies and applications?

Interesting. Looks like a combination of mGeo and Well Said with a video component.

This seems to be the granddaddy of mVideo and mAPT. But for now, from what I can see, it still works on a post-processing scale - i.e. record, and THEN annotate, not allowing you to add comments or tags in real-time. (Yet.) But it seems like a very good source of revenue, offering educational licenses, etc.

If you or anyone like to try out the apps, ETs have bought this app. It's from Ashley's Christmas gift card.

This could be useful for helping overworked teachers automate a tedious aspect of formative and summative assessment: tests. Yes, it's about exams, but it may not be as bad as it looks, because it can be used to enhance personalized workflows.

A series of Microsoft Research articles on the latest e-learning technologies and strategies. The concepts are seriously exciting! Could CeL consider take a look into these possible areas of research next time?

Do you know if this works with Google Drive (and hopefully Google Sites)?

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Explore the use of the tool first and note its affordances and its limitations for now. If there is more than one option, we should support what is available and give users a choice.

For those in the PS video project.

A few cool UI designs for mobile like 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21

#21 is really good! We might consider something like this for our m-learn (video) app.

with the usage of fancy/attractive headers, it could capture the user's attention & span. the objective of any website is having users to stay or as long as possible and slider is a good tool. 

Could be a useful tool for integrating with our mobile apps in future, especially mGeo?