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Kartini Ishak

TODAYonline | Tech | No second chance - 0 views

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tech todayonline

shared by Kartini Ishak on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
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  • Although Second Life's finances seem to be in the black (it is a
  • We're already on the cusp of a fully-immersive 3D experience that could go mainstream. Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for its gaming console, for example, allows gamers to control their onscreen characters with body movements captured by 3D cameras. Sony's PlayStation Home offers a sharp, high-definition virtual world. Maybe these companies could teach Linden Labs a thing or two about advancing the technology and vision behind Second Life.
  • The learning curve for Second Life is also steep, no thanks to its cumbersome user interface. Even a mildly proficient Internet user might be put off.
  • Kartini Ishak on 19 Nov 10
     
    No second chances for Second Life? This article discusses Second Life after three years of fizzling out. 
En En Koh

15 years VIB: Event and 9 Books on the Behance Network - 1 views

www.behance.net/...2433073

life science branding research institute

shared by En En Koh on 16 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • VIB is a life sciences research institute, based in Flanders, Belgium. They perform basic research with a strong focus on translating scientific results into pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial applications. For their fifteenth anniversary, we did the entire event branding, for which we used only chalk and a huge blackboard. For this event we also designed a box with nine books in it. For the books only we made more then 200 large chalk drawings.
  • En En Koh on 16 Nov 11
     
    Branding for a life science research institute! Great layout, typography and especially the mediums used, emulating blackboard and using chalk to manually draw graphics of atoms & science related objects! Even guerilla campaigns around the compound of the venue of the conference talk! There are also wall displays & installations!
Ashley Tan

How YouTube is Part of a Global Economic Transformation - 0 views

www.readwriteweb.com/..._global_economic_transform.php

youtube education

shared by Ashley Tan on 04 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • YouTube announced a new batch of partners that were added to its Education Channel today and noted that nearly 80% of the viewership of educational content on the site came from outside the United States. Less than 70% of the site's total traffic is International, so the educational content is disproportionately viewed by global audiences. Both YouTube and iTunes U are serving up huge quantities of educational content to a world already in the throes of a 50 year revolution in global education. In some ways they represent exactly the kind of education that a new world needs, too: learning that augments existing education and fosters life-long development of non-routine analytical and interactive skills. That's a recipe for good times. YouTube now hosts more than 500,000 educational videos, on a wide variety of topics. The new mobile-friendly iTunes U also offers 500,000 educational resources and says that 60% of its viewership comes from outside the United States. This global consuption of US-created online educational content may be the newest chapter in a radical transformation of global education over the past 50 years. life in this world is not like it used to be just a few decades ago, and the availability of world-class education on-demand, at almost no cost, is likely to help things change all the more as this century unfolds.
  • A trend began, at least in the United states, as far back as 1985: demand for "routine manual skills" has held relatively steady, demand for non-routine manual skills has plummeted. Demand for routine cognitive skills climbed through 1970, then fell. What's hot? Non-routine analytic and non-routine interactive skills. Those are things that a good YouTube or iTunes U video about world history or global ecology can help improve, your non-routine analytic and interactive skills. More than for just economic well-being, those are skills that positively impact quality of life in many ways.
Ashley Tan

The Straits Times Digital Life Tech Forum 2011 - 5 views

pbp.sph.com.sg/dltechforum2011

shared by Ashley Tan on 09 Nov 11 - No Cached
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  • Ashley Tan on 09 Nov 11
     
    Straits Time Digital Life Tech Forum 2011 Next Wed, 16 Nov Registration closes Fri 11 Nov
  • yeuann on 10 Nov 11
     
    FYI guys, registration is full already...
rahim azhar

Google Maps for Android to Add 3D and Offline Support - Yahoo! News - 1 views

news.yahoo.com/..._to_add_3d_and_offline_support

android maps google

shared by rahim azhar on 10 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Get ready, folks with no sense of direction; Google Maps 5.0 app for Android is looking to make your life a lot easier with 3D graphics, more accurate orientation and the ability to function offline.
  • rahim azhar on 10 Dec 10
     
    I like the offline feature. Makes life easier.
yeuann

Don Norman's jnd.org / Designing the Infrastructure - 1 views

www.jnd.org/...igning_the_infrastructure.html

shared by yeuann on 07 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • The infrastructure of our computer technology can be overwhelming. My computer's infrastructure gets more complex each year, and all this complexity requires attention. Upgrades and security modifications. The need to change passwords for many accounts, and the need to keep my list of passwords up to date, synchronized across all my computers. The need to reboot, defragment, do continual scans for viruses and malcontent software, the need to renew batteries and accounts. Backup files. It seems that every day I spend considerable time on the infrastructure. Because the ability to maintain infrastructure is seldom designed with care, each simple activity can become daunting. Each new device purchased requires installation, complete with registration, agreeing to unread but undoubtedly onerous legal conditions, and finding space and sockets for all the communication and power cable. Did I mention that these invariably require stopping all work, saving everything, and rebooting, after typing in a long, complex registration number? I should have.
  • Infrastructure is taken for granted. It is time it is given as much attention as the primary applications, else maintaining the infrastructure will itself become our primary activity.
  • 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.
  • yeuann on 07 Jul 11
     
    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?
yeuann

1 | CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life | Co.Design: business + innovation + design - 0 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...kathons-a-part-of-college-life

learning apps innovation collaboration serendipity

shared by yeuann on 09 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • A growing list of schools are turning to the "serendipity engine" to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects.
  • finding a cross-disciplinary collaboration is tougher--most of us are more likely to head to a meetup or networking event to fish for someone outside of our skill set. That’s fine, but it’s not a very efficient way to find exactly what you’re looking for.
  • yeuann on 09 Apr 13
     
    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?
bernard tan

Why Serious Games differ to elearning; it's obvious no? - 1 views

pixelearning.wordpress.com/...er-to-elearning-its-obvious-no

gamification learning game_development game

shared by bernard tan on 15 Jun 12 - No Cached
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  • bernard tan on 15 Jun 12
     
    Very interesting. This articles talks about pacing in activity by using example of gaming. I have always believed in progressive advancement in difficulty or challenge, reward or difficulties ( be it anything) then this article differed this view. Example if you eat good restaurant food everyday, your taste bud will soon fail to distinguish good or bad food and just learn to accept. this could be applied to things we do in life - challenges, job satisfactions or even learning to get better engagement. It enlighten me on how true this is- in game series when they do or do not uses this approach, the successful one in the series are those used this such as MGS1 and MGS3 in the series and why not 2 because this factor - pacing.
bernard tan

Android apps worth paying for - 1 views

www.todayonline.com/...Android-apps-worth-paying-for

tech mobile todayonline andriod

shared by bernard tan on 11 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • bernard tan on 11 Nov 10
     
    Some recommendation of serious apps that can change your life for the better .
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!
bernard tan

location tool on 'gamefication', Facebook and how game dynamics can help solve real problems - 2 views

static.guim.co.uk/...phic-of-Seth-Priebatsc-008.jpg

gameficiation game

shared by bernard tan on 18 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • bernard tan on 18 Mar 11
     
    knowing how to build a good game design mechanism is going to be important... even in real life. facebooks location, foursquares... more information here. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/mar/14/sxsw-2011-scvngr-seth-priebatsch#
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.
yeuann

The Life-Changing $20 Rightward-Facing Cow - 0 views

kotaku.com/...anging-20-rightward+facing-cow

facebook apps game social

shared by yeuann on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • This is the story of a person whose joke project became more successful than the one on which he lavished love and intellect, the climate that caused that to happen and how ultimately he decided to learn from it instead of becoming upset.
  • yeuann on 04 Oct 11
     
    A very interesting article about a social game joke experiment that didn't quite turn out the way that its creator intended. Food for thought on a rainy Tuesday morning. :)
yeuann

Know-It-All App Lets You Learn Without Thinking | Game|Life | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...know-it-all-kickstarter

learning education

shared by yeuann on 16 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Do you struggle to remember the periodic table of elements, but have no trouble recalling all of the Pokemon? Can’t find that French vocabulary word you crammed on the airplane to Paris, but still remember all the words to “We Didn’t Start the Fire?” The reason we struggle with remembering some things and have trouble forgetting others, some experts say, might not be simply because some things are fun and others are boring. It could be because, paradoxically, we learn better when we’re not concentrating.
yeuann

D3.js - Data-Driven Documents - 0 views

d3js.org

visualization data library programming html5 mindmap

shared by yeuann on 12 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.
  • yeuann on 12 Apr 13
     
    Came across this Javascript library that can take in dynamic data from websites and convert them into all kinds of graphs and visualization maps. We could use this for our mind-maps too. And it's free open-source!
casey ng

Mashable - The Social Media Guide How Tech Is Changing College Life [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

mashable.com/...tech-college-infographic

tech infographic college

shared by casey ng on 07 May 12 - No Cached
  • casey ng on 07 May 12
     
    A quick summary from infograpic how technology is changing college.
yeuann

Five Essential Skills for the Facebook Era - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

spectrum.ieee.org/...al-skills-for-the-facebook-era

social media facebook

shared by yeuann on 14 May 12 - No Cached
  • “If print culture shaped the environment from which the Enlightenment blossomed and set the scene for the Industrial Revolution, participatory media might similarly forge the cognitive and social environments in which 21st-century life will take place.”
  • the “literacy of participation,” and I guess this consists of the social norms of social media. What are they, and why are they so important?
  • yeuann on 14 May 12
     
    Insightful audio interview. The interviewee mentions about the "literacy of participation" as a key factor in the upcoming shifts in our cognitive and social environments of the 21st century.
wittyben

A Day in the Life of the Internet [INFOGRAPHIC] - 0 views

mashable.com/...one-day-internet-data-traffic

infographic internet

shared by wittyben on 20 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • wittyben on 20 Mar 12
     
    What happens on the internet everyday? Check this out!
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