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Can Twitter Make You Smarter? - 1 views

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shared by rahim azhar on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • In a group of 125 students at an anonymous medium-sized public college in the Midwest, 70 students used Twitter to access information and complete class assignments; the remaining 55 students used a more typical Internet-based course-management system and billboard.
  • rahim azhar on 16 Nov 10
     
    A research was conducted between students who are using twitter and students who are using internet-based- course-management for educational purposes .
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TODAYonline | Tech | Mobile Apps | Find your friends on foound - 0 views

www.todayonline.com/...Find-your-friends-on-foound
shared by Shamini Thilarajah on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Information on hangouts can also be pushed to Facebook and Twitter.
  • The startup was initially funded by Spring Singapore for $50,000 and it recently raised US$500,000 in seed funding in September. It has received backing from big names in the global technology scene. Joichi Ito from venture fund Neoteny Labs, who's also chief executive of Creative Commons and an early investor and board member of Twitter, and Batara Eto, who is co-founder and former chief technology officer of Mixi, Japan's largest social network, have joined foound's board of directors and advisory board respectively.
    • Shamini Thilarajah
      Shamini Thilarajah on 19 Nov 10
       
      if it's a free app, it's worth trying :)
  • Kartini Ishak on 19 Nov 10
     
    Singapore's version of "Twitter". 
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Marc My Words: The Greatest Mobile Learning App Ever (until the next one comes along) b... - 0 views

www.learningsolutionsmag.com/...until-the-next-one-comes-along mobile learning apps
shared by Sally Loan on 30 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • For mLearning, tags have huge possibilities. They add depth and vitality to content in ways that significantly enhance just-in-time access to information, and improve understanding and performance.
  • Two major tag formats are getting the most attention right now, and you can use both for mLearning: the QR tag format, and the Microsoft tag format.
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Graphic Design School Blog | Putting Together an Effective Portfolio, Articles - 0 views

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shared by Kartini Ishak on 02 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Blog > Putting Together an Effective Portfolio Putting Together an Effective Portfolio
  • most freelancers with a decent body of work nowadays will also have an online presence, used, in the main, to display their work. Take as much care with your online portfolio as you would your physical one. Strive for a uniformity and dynamism in your photography of projects, and make sure that images and pdfs saved from the computer are of sufficiently high and consistent resolution. Write concise, foolproof explanations to accompany the work and organise it all in an intuitive level-based fashion, much as you would a website. Sites like Flickr and View Creatives go some way to aiding the freelancer in this professional-feeling endeavour, but you’ll still need to pour energy and vim into the whole enterprise to create the right appearance.
  • Useful Top Tips Keep things small. A portfolio any larger than A3 is really too big Keep things clean & uncrumpled Loose-leaf sheets are better than ring-bound sleeves Assembling a portfolio should not be a one-off exercise, but a dynamic and continual process Request and absorb other people’s comments and allow this information to flow back into the way you maintain your portfolio Interleave your loose-leaf sheets with a bold and dazzling substrate, though choose something that doesn’t overpower the work contained within If you choose to carry your portfolio on a laptop, for pity’s sake avoid using Powerpoint in your presentations!
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Web App - Scrolling long lists - 1 views

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shared by bernard tan on 14 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Scrolling Long Lists Another big problem with iPhone web apps is presenting very long lists efficiently. Digg has this problem with their stories and comments and they work around it by breaking stories into pages of ten and omitting all but the top five comments. Apple solves this problem nicely in their Mail app by loading 25 messages at a time and putting a link to get more at the end. Clicking it loads those messages and appends them to the end of the list, allowing you to use the joyous flick gesture to scroll the complete list at once. In my view, this is nicer than breaking the list up into separate pages. iUI makes it easy for you to use this convention in your own web apps. Simply create a link with target="_replace" and iUI will load the URL it and replace the <a> with the contents of the URL. Again, the URL should not point to a complete HTML document, but only the fragment you want to replace the "Get More" link with. For an example of incrementally loaded lists, look at the Digg demo again. Scroll to the bottom of the stories list and click on the "Get 10 More Stories..." link.
  • bernard tan on 14 Dec 10
     
    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__
  • Ashley Tan on 16 Dec 10
     
    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.
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News: Competing to Catch Plagiarizers - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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shared by Sally Loan on 10 Jan 11 - Cached
  • The major difference, then, is the database. SafeAssign's library will include a scan of the Internet and weekly updates of the ProQuest ABI/Inform database of 2.6 million articles, as well as student and faculty submissions made Blackboard's network of users.
  • Barrie said Turnitin has a far larger advantage of scale: the Turnitin database includes 40 million student papers from 9,000 academic institutions in 90 countries.
  • SafeAssign asks students for permission to store their papers each time they submit one via Blackboard, which may mean that the catalog grows more slowly than Turnitin's average of 100,000 new papers each day.
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  • the more people who use it, the more we have stored in the database, becoming more accurate and more accurate as time goes on.”
  • Sally Loan on 10 Jan 11
     
    Turnitin vs SafeAssign for Blackboard. Both are building blocks for blackboard System. SafeAssign is free but a bit unstable, Turnitin is a paid service and subscribed by most institute of higher learning, as well as book publishers.
  • Ashley Tan on 10 Jan 11
     
    Great resource. It will be good material for any of our staff who are unsure which tool to use.
  • Sally Loan on 11 Jan 11
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Challenges of Interface Design for Mobile Devices » Yahoo! User Interface Blo... - 1 views

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shared by bernard tan on 28 Dec 10 - Cached
  • designing for a mobile device can lead to a solution that is worlds different than its desktop equivalent.
  • Context of Use
  • Users have a very specific need and desire to accomplish their goal in the easiest and fastest way possible. This fact alone helps explain why mobile interfaces are designed the way they are
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  • Feature sets are optimized to streamline common use cases Use typography to show hierarchy and importance Features are progressively displayed Large buttons are used to make interactions actionable
  • Designing with awareness to context will yield a more atomic design that instead of introducing users to a proverbial blank canvas, will guide them toward accomplishing important tasks. Having to deal with slow data speeds, high network latency, smaller screens, and an unpredictable mode of use only reinforce the need to isolate an application’s essential features and offer access to them when contextually appropriate. Next time you design an interface for a mobile device, remember to consider context of use and context of the medium as part of your design strategy.
  • Dealing with phone numbers and other mobile friendly data Displaying information on a smaller screen Not using a cursor Device speed and network latency
  • Context of the medium
  • To design an experience that can gracefully coexist with others tools, one needs to understand what kind of media can be processed by specific mobile internet browsers, and when onboard applications are launched.
    • bernard tan
      bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
       
      need to find out hows web app can interact with other apps... especially how we can integret that into harmonia and dropbox feature...
  • Using traditional web development techniques of creating fluid designs that scale horizontally is the fastest way to deploy a single design to many different mobile devices.
    • bernard tan
      bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
       
      for azhar ... on creating a fluid layout for harmonia so that it fit all devices.
  • bernard tan on 28 Dec 10
     
    While reading for ideas on doing mock up mobile interface, i stumbled this. very interesting read on designing for usability for mobile devices and why it is not just a scale down version of your actual desktop website.
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Why the iPad Will Not Save the Publishing Industry - woorkup.com - 0 views

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shared by bernard tan on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Leaving purely technical considerations aside (in some cases the final result is better than in others), the general quality of those magazines is without doubt extremely high and the integration between classic and multimedia content makes their reading experience very pleasant and engaging. But there is a basic limitation that could play a significant role in preventing their widespread diffusion, thereby making them not competitive in terms of economic return. The problem is not the limited number of iPads in circulation, as some may think, but the difficulty – or the inability – to download single issues of a certain magazines on your device because of their excessive size, which usually is around 400 MB.
  • the general quality of those magazines is without doubt extremely high and the integration between classic and multimedia content makes their reading experience very pleasant and engaging. But there is a basic limitation that could play a significant role in preventing their widespread diffusion, thereby making them not competitive in terms of economic return. The problem is not the limited number of iPads in circulation, as some may think, but the difficulty – or the inability – to download single issues of a certain magazines on your device because of their excessive size, which usually is around 400 MB.
  • each download may take a period ranging from twenty to seventy minutes if you are connected to a wi-fi hotspot. If you use a 3G connection, instead, the download is inhibited and a message warns you that, due to the excessive size of the file, you must be connected to a wi-fi to continue to the download. Apart from the frustration generated by waiting too long for the completion of the download (especially if you consider that there are an infinite number of alternative sources of information available in a few seconds, for free, just surfing the web), when the user doesn’t have access to a wi-fi network, he is likely to quit the purchase altogether
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  • This limit, which negatively affects sales volumes and profitability of editorial projects aimed at iPad users, will bring developers to rethink radically the structure of such contents and limit their size. Otherwise, a significant proportion of those users who have once experienced the frustration of the download will not want to repeat the purchase a second time.
  • bernard tan on 13 Dec 10
     
    Something it's not about how rich or engaging the contents are but how the ease of being able to reach for it is. ( infrastructure) Afterall would you bother buying a magazine from your local newsagent if you had to stand there and wait in a queue for 30 minutes or more.
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Get Serious About Social Learning by Focusing on What Matters by Eric Davidove : Learni... - 0 views

www.learningsolutionsmag.com/...ng-by-focusing-on-what-matters social learning
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  • Social learning has taken on a kind of religious fervor among learning practitioners during the past couple of years—and not without good reason. It often creates more powerful and enduring learning experiences; it helps people establish and leverage social connections to accelerate the distribution and sharing of experiences, content, and guidance; and it allows learners to be more productive, learn faster, and work smarter.
  • it’s easy to lose focus on what matters, and to assume the end game is the technology
  • A social learning strategy should paint a compelling picture of the future state, clearly articulate the business case for change, and outline the roadmap for how you will get from “here” to “there” (including what must change, stop, and continue)
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  • Social learning, at its core, is a network of communities. This network is usually formed and accessed through the use of social media. The community network provides the “path” for an effective flow of information.
  • A community network is the primary source of advice, methods, leading practices, lessons learned, and innovation. It’s the “repository” of content, experience, and intelligence that enables people to learn, develop, and excel at work. The effectiveness and usefulness of the community network is a function of its size and make-up.
  • A new generation of learning is here. Today, employees are working in a very fast-paced environment and they need learning that is immediate, relevant, and delivered in the context of their work. Social media won’t do the job alone. Organizations must embrace social learning and adopt the leading practices presented in this article if they want their employees to keep their company on the cutting edge. Social learning works when it is born from a well thought-out strategy, is made up of mature community networks, is fueled by motivated members, is a resource of great content, and is guided by meaningful metrics. Take some of the ideas presented in this article and start implementing them now.
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ingentaconnect Enhancing learnerlearner interaction using video communications i... - 1 views

www.ingentaconnect.com/...art00025 cel video
shared by Ashley Tan on 24 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • This paper presents a model which distinguishes between planned learner-content interaction and learner-learner interaction and suggests that a blend of planned and non-planned learner-learner interaction is worthwhile. It concentrates on technology enhanced learning using video communications which provide opportunities for more authentic online collaborative learning, formally and informally.
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Why You Need A Mobile Learning Strategy by Bill Brandon : Learning Solutions Magazine - 1 views

www.learningsolutionsmag.com/...eed-a-mobile-learning-strategy mobile learning CeL
shared by Ashley Tan on 01 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • It is a mistake to try to implement a full "course" as an mLearning application, or to think of mLearning as classic asynchronous eLearning but on a smaller screen. In order to avoid this, designers must think through their instructional strategy (how to effectively combine the various modalities and platforms) and their implementation strategy (it may be better to start with performance support via mobile than to start with delivery of instruction). You can get a lot of help in this effort from the Mobile Learning: Landscape and Trends report itself. It will give you unbiased information about the issues, the tools, and the experience of many organizations as they implement mLearning. In the next two weeks, Learning Solutions Magazine will offer features on implementing mLearning. On June 14, The Guild’s Thought Leader Seminar will feature Gary Woodill, speaking on “The Mobile Learning Edge: How Learning on the Move Can Be A Competitive Advantage.”
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SpringerLink - Education and Information Technologies, Online First™ - 0 views

www.springerlink.com/...7465324r2p471124 CeL video lecture capture
shared by Ashley Tan on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • A Video Lecture Capture (VLC) system was implemented to address issues relating to retention, and to reverse the trend of high drop, failure, and withdrawal (DFW) rates. The purpose of this study was to examine student perceptions of how using VLC impacted their academic performance. Areas of interest surrounded students’ perceived benefits, value, and helpfulness of using the system. In addition, the study probed the concern of many about the impact using VLC would have upon class attendance. Finally the study compared students’ perceptions about their performance as a result of using VLC with faculty perceptions about their students’ performance as a result of using VLC. It was hypothesized that there is a significant difference between student and faculty perceptions.
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Bboogle Collaboration Tool - 2 views

www.it.northwestern.edu/...index.html blackboard google collaboration googlesites
shared by yeuann on 26 Jul 11 - Cached
  • Using Bboogle, course instructors provide links within their CMS course sites to content they create in the @u environment. Google Docs - Share documents including spreadsheets, presentation slides, Google forms, and other file types, with students. Google Calendars - Share information including assignment due dates, test dates, class syllabus, and project deadlines on a class calendar that automatically appears in the individual electronic calendars of every student in a class. Google Sites - Share a course site that brings together all classroom materials including docs, calendars, photos, videos, attachments, and message blogs that can be presented to students either for viewing or co-authoring.
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Defaults are bad « Lisa's (Online) Teaching Blog - 1 views

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shared by Ashley Tan on 18 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • My class is organized like a syllabus. I need a button for Unit 1, a button for Unit 2. Every time we do a workshop where one of our faculty demonstrates how we’ve adjusted an LMS to make it look like a syllabus, we see light bulbs go on all over the room. We have, over the years, called these workshops things like “Making Blackboard Work for You”, “Redesigning Blackboard”, and “The Interactive Syllabus”. Yesterday our presenters Andrea Petri and Laura Paciorek gave a workshop called “A New Wardrobe for Blackboard: Technical Basics of Instructional Design”. Andrea showed us his class, organized into units, with each unit a page full of links, all in one place for that unit. We’ve got tutorials, like this one on creating an interactive syllabus in Blackboard by Pilar Hernández . We have a handout showing a logical chapter-based LMS menu. Laura Paciorek made a screencast on how to change the Blackboard menu .
  • Ashley Tan on 18 Aug 11
     
    Something for the ETs and Jason to read and react to.
  • yeuann on 18 Aug 11
     
    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.
  • jasonyai on 19 Aug 11
     
    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.
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8 jQuery Optimization Tips and Tricks - Hungred Dot Com - 0 views

hungred.com/...y-optimization-tips-and-tricks mobile HTML5 iphone Optimization jQuery performance web
shared by bernard tan on 25 Aug 11 - Cached
  • bernard tan on 25 Aug 11
     
    found out using jquery reduce performance on iphone greatly. Use jquery sparsely. if you are using jquery library for your html5 mobile app. this is going to help big time.
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Dekko is an instant Wikipedia page for everything you see - 0 views

www.businessinsider.com/licon-valley-startups-to-watch mobile
shared by yeuann on 16 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Merging reality with technology, we think. The startup is still in super stealth mode, but from this presentation we found, Dekko wants to give users instant information about any place they take a picture of (see photo).
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How mobile learning games are different | Instructional Design Fusions - 3 views

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shared by Shamini Thilarajah on 22 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Mobile learning games offer opportunities for: Mapping:  games that require players to  notice and interact with their communities and physical spaces Touring: games that connect people to organizations (e.g., non-profits, neighborhood organizations) and  people who work there.  These games tell a story through a space, not necessarily about a space. Performing: games that immerse players in role-playing, simulations, and alternative and/or augmented realities
  • Mobile games can incorporate conversations and activities in real-time as well as asynchronous activities through the use of physical and virtual social networks.
  • mobile learning games are more likely to connect learners to physical and social spaces than online games played on personal computers  or using video consoles.
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  • Mobile learning game mechanics should connect to social experiences and tap into all of the affordances of mobile devices, such as the ability to: Take pictures Record audio and video Obtain location-based information (e.g., via GPS), Text Communicate through social media Communicate via phones (probably the least utilized potential of these devices) Additionally, activities should be tied to locations that are relevant to the learners (e.g., schools, popular clubs, relevant workplace environments) (Maxl & Tarkus, n.d.).
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Evernote for Students: The Ultimate Research Tool - Education Series « Everno... - 3 views

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shared by Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Organizing in Evernote
  • Access Information Anywhere, No Thumb Drive Necessary As a student, you’re all over the place: in class on your mobile device, at the gym, in your dorm room, at the library, etc. With Evernote, files, notes and documents are available to you everywhere – on your phone, your desktop, and anywhere you have an internet connection. That means that if you’re working in a computer lab, all your research is there. If you lost your thumb drive before your presentation, you can pull up your PowerPoint from a friend’s laptop. Having everywhere access to your Evernote account also means you can make great use of the in-between time we all tend to have. Whether you’re waiting for the bus, or for class to start, you can make quick edits to anything you’re working on. Evernote puts everything in one place, and makes it easy to find exactly what you’re looking for, no matter where you are. If you’re doing research, alone or in a group, Evernote saves time and helps keep you organized.
  • Kartini Ishak on 22 Sep 11
     
    Tips on using Evernote - getting organized
  • Shamini Thilarajah on 22 Sep 11
     
    Thanks Tini! I can use some info for my training next week ;)
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EduCampSG - 8 views

www.educampsingapore.com/home
shared by Ashley Tan on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
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  • Ashley Tan on 13 Sep 11
     
    Wonder if we should organize something like this for other IHLs.
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  • Pratima Majal on 13 Sep 11
     
    Or should we ask them to organize their next EduCamp Singapore at NIE ? If I'm not mistaken Pritam from Ngee Ann Poly has been organizing these. We could then invite the IHLs to join us..
  • Sally Loan on 13 Sep 11
     
    Thought it's a good idea. Why keep things to ourselves. That is one way of marketing CeL thou..
  • casey ng on 14 Sep 11
     
    The informal way of sharing is quite interesting, and it might lead to new discovery, another prospective, and people also feel less stressful as it require less preparations.
  • Ashley Tan on 14 Sep 11
     
    Pratima, please ask your poly contact if they are open to hosting the event here. Also check if there is a cost incurred.
  • casey ng on 14 Sep 11
     
    Roger. Will contact them.
  • Pratima Majal on 14 Sep 11
     
    Ashley, I have emailed Preetam. I'll update you once he responds :)
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