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yeuann

Projects | Navigator - 2 views

  • This section of Navigator is the entryway to the extensive listings of vetted projects exploring uses of emerging technologies contained in the Horizon Project data set — easily the largest database of its kind in the world.
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    A great site that we can browse through for e-learning projects that explores emerging technologies, including mobile tech.
Kartini Ishak

Google brings Interaction to Education with Google+ Pages | Rebecca Coleman | Social Me... - 1 views

  • A recent study of Google+ showed that it is more popular with parents than students,  which could be a favorable indicator of how popular it is for those educators of the same generation.
  • One example of how teachers are using Google+ Pages to run their classrooms, is that of Mr. McDowell who teaches World History at West Hills High School. Mr. McDowell has made great use of Google’s tools to give students access to documents, schedules, presentations, videos and password protected areas like attendance and grade records.
  • access to Google+ tools and pages from any computer promotes interactivity on the site and is a big hit with educators
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      A good point to note. Educators are using Google+ for its easy userbility and interactivity
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  • Facebook doesn’t offer a platform that supports real-time interactions and information sharing like Google+.
  • Google+ still has a learning curve for all users
  • Google+ Pages provides control for sharing information by allowing you to sort your contacts into “circles”.
  • This provides a new dynamic in which great opportunities for tutoring can thrive.
  • create custom “hangouts” which brings people from within your circles that you select, to interact in a virtual room together.
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    A little backdated article in 2011, but I thought it would be good to start exploring possibilities of Google+ and using it in classrooms
yeuann

Instructional Design for Mobile Learning | Canvas Network - 2 views

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    A free open course for those interested in exploring principles and pedagogies for designing mobile learning. Benji, Carolyn, Rachel, Fareed, would you guys be interested in this?
wittyben

Top 5 Web Tools for Social Media Gamification | inspirationfeed.com - 0 views

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    "What is Gamification, and why should you care? Gamification is the integration of Game Mechanics in non-game environments to increase audience engagement, loyalty and fun." Here's some tools you can explore for social media gamification.
Sally Loan

Explorer by Blackboard - 4 views

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    Check out the QR code, cool. 
yeuann

Portfolio Apps - mPortfolios - 0 views

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    Seems like there is a dearth of mPortfolios that use open platforms and are not locked into proprietary systems. However, one interesting potential feature that I saw on the page was the idea of voice-to-text for uploading into e-Portfolios.  Am currently working on a mobile app that integrates with Google Sites. Shall explore the voice-to-text idea where possible
Pratima Majal

Conceptboard - Realtime Teamwork & Collaboration Software - 2 views

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    I was introduced to this tool today, I would need to find out whether this is for Concept mapping though...but a tool worth exploring :)
yeuann

A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages; Alan Kay - 1972 (PDF) - 0 views

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    A fascinating and visionary article written in the '70s about the DynaBook, a computer envisioned as a special educational tool to not just teach children facts, but to also make them more curious and more intentional in exploring their world and the knowledge available.  Some pundits today say that the iPad is, at long last, the realization of Kay's visionary DynaBook - more than thirty years later. Pretty heady and visionary, this article, even today. Do read it if you have the time.
yeuann

Sleep Is Death (Geisterfahrer) - 0 views

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    A very interesting and innovative storytelling game for two players. How it works is that one player moves the "game" characters around a stage, selecting any object to interact with as he pleases. The other player is the "gamemaster", who determines how the selected object / character will interact with the "player". Each side takes 30 seconds per turn... which leads to very interesting results. Very useful for making flipbooks, interactive real-time storytelling. This storytelling game helps to restore the ancient art of making up engaging stories in real-time, as you go along. For an animated explanation of how the whole thing works: http://sleepisdeath.net/slideShow For an example story (this one is about a 5-years-old boy during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...): http://sidtube.com/gallery/168/ More stories: http://sleepisdeath.net/stories.php Have fun exploring the stories! :)
Kartini Ishak

NMC Virtual Worlds - 1 views

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    NMC Virtual Worlds is a program of the New Media Consortium. Our mission is to help learning-focused organizations explore the potential of virtual spaces in a manner that builds on community knowledge, is cost-effective, and ensures high quality. NMC Virtual Worlds provides a palette of premium custom services for education and training, and conducts an ongoing series of events, conferences, and programs. A suite of pro bono services and fellowships are a central aspect of the organization, and reflect our deep commitment to learning and access.
wittyben

FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software - 0 views

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    This e-book / flipbook maker is worth exploring.
Kartini Ishak

Your Free Online Video Editor | JayCut - 3 views

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    A web-based tool to create videos. Something I thought would be a good resource for the video team to explore. :)
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    Thanks Kartini.
casey ng

Every things you want to know about HTML 5 - 0 views

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    This is a excellent source to know about HTML 5 which is created by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG). The W3C site exlplain new features about HTML5, but bear in mind that HTML5 is still work in progress. The latest versions of Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Opera support some HTML5 features. Internet Explorer 9 will support some HTML5 features.
casey ng

Google Body Browser - 0 views

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    Google just launched Body Browser that let you explore the human body just like you explore the world with Google Earth.But, you need a browser that support WeBGL like Firefox4 beta and Google Chrome Beta. See the unofficial blog for Body Browser http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/12/google-body-browser.html. I have it tried it out.Impressive but not stable in some PC. Excellent tool for teaching staff in sport science, and biology.
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    This is cool, will PESS folks be interested?
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    Yes, will be introducing to them since it is relevant to them.
bernard tan

Exporting Images from Canvas Tag HTML5 - 1 views

  • Exporting & Saving One thing that SVG can’t do is save the resulting image as a bitmap. It’s easy for <canvas> because the element is already a bitmap in the first place! The canvas can export its image to a data URL (e.g., data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGg...). This data may then be rendered in the browser, which could then be saved or dragged to the desktop, used in a new canvas, and so on. The browser must support PNG images, and it may have varying support for GIF and JPG. For our example, we’ll stick with PNG since it supports alpha transparency, and where we haven’t drawn on the canvas, it’ll be transparent. To get the data URL, we simply call canvas.toDataURL('image/png'). Note that we’re calling toDataURL() on the <canvas> element, not on the 2D context. This is because we’re getting all the pixels in the canvas, not just the pixels in a particular context. So taking the example we’ve put together already, we’ll make the browser redirect to a PNG version of the image when a user clicks on the <canvas> element (a contrived example, I know!): canvas.onclick = function () {  window.location = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');};
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    I am sharing of export images from web app specially to Eve and Sham, maybe useful for our harmonia project. This is the workflow i was mentioning on exporting the contents of the new html5 tag canvas to an jpeg or png and it opens in a browser, which then can be save or be used for other things, we could also explore on other options of sending the image directly to other applications. http://jsbin.com/abagi3/5/ Above url is a live prototype and you can actually view source to see how easily it is being done. :)
Kartini Ishak

Twitter Reading List - 0 views

  • Twaining in Twitter, Terence Wing, Learning solutions magazine, 3 February 2011
  • Twitter in education, what next? presentation by Dave Hopkins, 11 September 2010
  • A framework for teaching with Twitter, Mark Sample, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 16 August 2010
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  • 5 Examples of How Schools Are Using Social Media to Enhance Learning buzzmarketing daily, 5 March 2010
  • Social network tweets to classes, Liau Yun Qing, ZDNet Asia, 5 February 2010
  • In-Class Tweeting in a Large Lecture Class, Tiffany Gallicano, 30 January 2010
    • Kartini Ishak
       
      Those I've highlighted are the articles which I've read and find useful as resources as to how we could use such social media to engage our audience and interact simultaneously with them and learn at the same time. 
  • gust 2009 Twitter Style Guide, Sherry Main, Social Media Today, 16 August 2009
  • Twitter Scavenger Hunt Helps Students Learn More About Campus,19 Au
  • 25 Twitter projects for the college classroom, OnlineColleges.net, 10 August 2009
  • Twittering in an educational setting, Elizabeth Hannan, Social Media Today, 17 May 2009
  • Twitter as a Learning Tool.  Really. Pat Galagan, ASTD, March 2009
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    'How to use Twitter for Social Learning' is a great site to bookmark and explore. This site contains over 200 + articles and resources about using Twitter for Learning and is a great resource. 
Pratima Majal

Cybraryman Internet Catalogue - 2 views

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    Great list of resources for those exploring Evernote
yeuann

Educational Apps for My Son, Surprising Apps for Me | GeekDad | Wired.com - 4 views

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    Interesting iPad apps to explore
Pratima Majal

TodaysMeet - 0 views

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    Sal, we spoke about backchanneling earlier this week,  here's a tool you would be interested in exploring :)
yeuann

Contemplative Computing - 0 views

  • So can computers actually help improve our concentration and contemplation, instead of leading us into distraction? The problem, as Pang puts it, is that "Technologies that were supposed to help us think better, work more efficiently, and connect more meaningfully with others now interrupt us, divide our attention, and stretch us thin."
  • In the paper he outlines give principles of contemplative computing; Build awareness through DIY and self-experimentation Recognize that we are cyborgs, and humans Create rewarding challenges Support mind-wandering Treat flow as a means, not an end
  • Pang suggests that we don't have to choose between information technology and contemplation, and suggests contemplative computing as a new way forward. He describes contemplative computing as something you do, not a product. But the principles of contemplative computing could be extending to application design. "The problem is that today's information technologies are often poorly-designed and thoughtlessly used: they're like unreliable prosthetics that we have to depend on, but can't quite control or trust," Pang says.
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  • You might be surprised to see "support mind wandering" on the list. But Pang makes a distinction between mind wandering and distraction, and points out the value creative value of mind wandering and day dreaming (for more on this subject, check out this article by Jonah Lehrer, though Lehrer doesn't really make the distinction between distraction and mind wandering).
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    A fascinating post on "contemplative computing", where computing can be used to facilitate and even enhance creative education/workflow process... where the software would allow you to try out multiple versions of a music composition / essay / video seamlessly... while enabling you to wander around exploring on relevant topics on Wikipedia without getting distracted off-topic! :)
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