Simon Kemp, a speaker at the Mobile Show 2012 which I had attended gave a presentation on the 12 provocations on the future of Social (Media) and tracking the developments in social media. He laid out 12 provocations which he thinks would determine the next wave of success in social media (within the next 6mths).
A research site by the New Media Consortium that shows novel research projects for developing mobile learning / interactive apps. Perhaps the MD team can take a look through the research projects and see which can be adapted for our own projects?
A free testing service for mobile developers. I have not try it out yet. Anyone who has some iOS programming background wants to give it a try? Let me know.
For the game team.
Today we're announcing premium features for gaming with Flash Player 11.2. These will allow game developers to publish advanced games with console quality experiences to Flash Player. We're also excited to announce that we are collaborating with Unity Technologies to enable Unity customers to publish web-based 3D games, like Madfinger's Shadowgun, to Flash Player using the premium features from directly within Unity's tools.
PLANE - Pathways for Learning Anywhere, Anytime: A Network for Educators
PLANE is an innovative and fun educator community, networking space, and virtual world; providing accredited professional learning, courses, multi-media resources, ICT skills development, e-portfolio, collaborative tools, games-based-learning, and peer coaching.
One quick glance and OMG ! For once, Apple iTune U is behind CeL NIE in this initiative. mVideo is all what Apple is talking about now. Anyway, not about to get dizzy in cloud nine, will dig deeper into Apple's New Education Initiative (iTune U) to see any ideas better than mVideo.
For the app developers in CeL. This is not the prettiest app but it has some interesting ideas on creating rubric-based evaluations.
I like the sliding Likert-type scale and the way other artefacts like photos and videos can be added to an evaluation.
Interesting site where you can download various components for mobile programming. Perhaps Eveleen and her team would find some of the components useful for developing further apps?
LessonNote, an iPad-based observation tool
"Lesson Study Alliance and Project IMPULS are developing an application for iPad, the LessonNote, to help practitioners of lesson study improve the quality of their post-lesson discussions by improving the quality of observational data collected during the lesson. It has been tested in research lessons in both the U.S. and Japan. The first version of this application will soon be available for free from the iTunes store."
