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Start for iPad is free today only. Convert web pages to PDF & open in other apps like PaperPort Notes

Very nice find. It's a useful app if you don't have a laptop or desktop with you.

Need a good social media stat and don't know where to look? Here's a web page that consolidates some of the latest stats for your info and reference.

Take a look at the AR name cards on this page too. Interesting to have on ours.

Nice, a CeL namecard with CeL spinning logo and video trailer showing S.O.M. Awesome right?

oh yes.. something to be proud of which many out there still don't have.

Another factor that is not as obvious but perhaps even more important is motivation. When you're working hard on something, without any guarantee of success, doubting yourself and losing motivation is easy, and this circumstance often leads people to abandon otherwise promising projects. Raising awareness and collecting email addresses long before launch does two things to combat this lack of motivation. First, by putting the project out there, you make it much harder for yourself to quit, because we all hate to let people down. Secondly, pre-registering users shows you that there's actual demand for what you're building, which goes a long way to silencing those gnawing doubts. In this context, the teaser is a vital part of any product's Web strategy.

This API captures data in a consistent format about a person or group's activities from many technologies.

Hi Ashley, I've been reading through this section for developers: http://tincanapi.com/page-developers/. From what I understand so far, an LRS should do at least one of the following: - Standardize and serialize the various types of data from different networks (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) into an LMS-friendly format - Act as a stand-alone enterprise-level web-service from which other web-services can extract the collated data for their own usage. The Tin Can APIs look useful so far for our own use (including mobile support), since they support Javascript, Objective C and Java. I believe these APIs can link up with Google Enterprise Apps for greater LRS functionality too.

Ah, that's good news indeed if Google Enterprise Apps are friendly towards this strategy. Keep monitoring. Things tend to change rapidly with Google!

One of the issue/feature for the billboard on finLit hub project which i was discussing with Sham about earlier on. Here's a nice solution which i think we can take into consideration. Do check out the digg demo link that I highlighted. http://www.joehewitt.com/iui/samples/digg/#___1__

Excellent find! I also think that "get more" is a more elegant solution. Where any information exceeds a single screen in any apps CeL develops, this should be the way to go.

A whole lots page regarding Gamification!

page with almost all devices with pixel density pixels per inch PPI and dimension stated. useful reference for cross platform/devices designs and development.

An article on how social media are setting world records.... Enjoy.

Thanks Kartini! I strongly agree too. To add on to your point, I think for the Gen-Yers, social media tools also facilitate on-going collaboration by engaging the emotive power of relational bonds to help bring everyone onto the same page. I remember reading this in my Media Theories module: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda-setting_theory... hope you find it relevant! "Agenda-setting theory is the theory that the news media have a large influence on audiences by their choice of what stories to consider newsworthy and how much prominence and space to give them. Agenda-setting theory's main postulate is salience transfer. Salience transfer is the ability of the news media to transfer issues of importance from their news media agendas to public agendas. Through their day-by-day selection and display of the news, editors and news directors focus our attention and influence our perceptions of what are the most important issues of the day. This ability to influence the salience of topics on the public agenda has come to be called the agenda setting role of the news media."

Purdue University has a page in its wiki repository that details foursquare, including its history, how it relates to other applications, and its real world application. The real world application section includes lesson plans from geography, economics, technology, and music.

What we can learn is the creation of more meaningful experiences, from this Foursquare study, is that reaches out to people and engages them. 

A useful reference should we need to publish the guides in EPUB format. We could have an app for staff and student teachers to get and display the references from NIe-Learning.

Something for the ETs and Jason to read and react to.

Interesting article! I think one reason why many teachers keep on sticking to the defaults is because _precisely_ BB can be so flexible and do so many things, and there's a lot of templates available. This panoply of choices leads to decision fatigue on the teachers' part: "Which features should I use for presenting to my students? how can I package and so on... arrrrh I'll just stick with the defaults and customize another day." (Can read more about decision fatigue at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html) So, I think our training strategies would have to recognize and take into account this human tendency to choose the easy defaults, especially when mentally tired.

Defaults are bad? hmmm... My son started using the kiddy skate scooter about 4 mths ago and he does it like a pro now. When I bought the scooter, it came with 'default settings', i.e. all fixed up and ready to use. He had a go at it and we adjusted the height and widen the handles along the way. He grew more confident and I removed the trainer wheels. I cannot imagine when the scooter came without any 'default settings', i.e. 4 wheels, 2 bars, rubber tubes, etc, I will be quite frustrated setting it up from scratch and my son will be climbing all over me. Defaults cannot be seen as something bad in my opinion. It gives new users or busy people something to start with, I personally appreciate that. When we design instructions, we provide foundations to get our learners started, building blocks or scaffolding their learning as they progress. A range of basic, intermediate or advanced instructional plans can also be presented later on. Essentially, what are the characteristics of our learners or the users of BB? What do you think they need? Demographics of our acad staffs for example are quite 'senior adult learners' (correct me if I am wrong). Do we think we want to present a blank BB page and tell them, 'hey, guess what? its all about customisation now, whatever you want, put it in.' No prize for guessing what their reactions will be. On the other hand, there maybe a group of people who do not want to conform to defaults but to change things or customise their experiences. Nothing wrong with that too. My point is, let's provide a range of options for users, we inform that there are default settings to get them started but there are also room for customisation for the adventurous. We want to be learner centric, hence customisation of experiences but we also do not want to leave anyone behind. That said, I am going to change all my default passwords and user ids of my mobile.... no wonder banks have been calling me to ask if I needed loans.

For the e-portfolio team

Finally! :)

Access Gmail on iOS4 device. For Chee to set up new iPad. First step is critical (enable IMAP). Otherwise, use older instructions from link in same page.

Thanks for sharing. I tried last night, and it works for just do the usual Gmail set up. Chee managed to do that as well.

Thanks Ashley for your instant info and advise. I reset my Linksys wireless router IP Address back to 192.168.1.1 default and manage to connect to the Internet and setup the Gmail account instantly. I also thanks Sally for the help and tips!