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VoiceThread and its affordances.

You are welcome Shamini! I knew it would be useful to Diggo it instead of emailing the link to Mr. Cheang :)

Thanks Pratima, now we can afford to look at people, issues, processes and values first before considering the desired features in a proposed tool or technology.

An example of how students can be empowered to not just consume, but to also create e-learning programs for their peers. Perhaps we can use this as an illustration of a unique learning/visualization affordance made possible by technology. Incidentally I think they have the best "Please wait" message ever for a program: "Please be patient while this page loads -- it takes several minutes. But it does include, after all, the entire universe." :)

An interesting piece about how the unique affordances of mobile devices enable newer forms of learning.

The ultimate in e-learning affordance... can you imagine the potential for educators and students to be able to design and adapt their own physical user interfaces for normal computer apps?

An innovative app that allow you to draw virtual "graffiti" at any location. The natural touch-based interface of the iPhone affords easy scribbling on the go.

This looks like a very promising Google app... basically, it's like your very own "Facebook" wall for any topic that you have in mind. And best of all, it can be embedded into Google Sites too! https://sites.google.com/site/moderatorhelpcenter/getting-started/guide Affordances: Similar to that of a forum, except that you also get to vote on the topic at hand or a solution too.

A powerful example of direct manipulation in user interfaces using the now-standard affordances of swipe, pinch and push. What are some ways we can enhance our future e-learning apps to reduce the adoption barrier among potential e-learners?

A blog entry on affordances. Easy read for all.

Sounds like affordances. Social affordance is lacking, we can add in.

These cMOOCs are characterized by a certain DIY (do it yourself) or "edupunk" feel. In 2012, with the introduction of ventures like Coursera and edX, we saw the rise of what George Siemens in his July 25, 2012 blog entry called the xMOOC (please see the References for a link). The xMOOCs are another camp entirely, institutional courses materialized in Coursera and Coursera-like platforms.

Instead of a compass telling you exactly which direction to go, it acts as a facilitator, allowing you to work out your own route - and discover new things along the way. This can serve as a metaphor for our 21st-century style of facilitated and directed e-learning. How can we use and even reverse the default affordances of a mobile phone to enhance exploratory and creative learning? Based on the above reflection, here's one random idea for stimulating creative learning using mobile apps: - Language: As you walk along a path, the phone automatically generates a "cloud" of words extracted from geolocated tweets associated with the location that you are currently on, and invites you to contribute your own tweets about your own location.

Bangladeshi students want to study abroad and we provide consultancy to select appropriate course, right institution matching their merit, affordability and choice.

online video will be a big chunk of mobile learning..

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.

A very simple set of instructions which will be very handy for the video team, I think. An interactive video example for a possible project (Jason will know) can be viewed here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwCAeygp8uo

I tried it and its easy. Can be a new way of using videos for teaching and learning. Affordances? Checked!

Chai, Lim, So & Cheah (MOE, 2011)

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".