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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Roland Gesthuizen

Roland Gesthuizen

FETCH! LUNCH RUSH for iPhone, iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation),... - 0 views

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    "FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman, is making a movie! Of course, he's in over his head and he needs your help, like, yesterday. In this Augmented Reality, multi-player game, you need to keep up with lunch orders from Ruff's movie crew. The challenge is keeping track of how many pieces of sushi everyone wants."
Roland Gesthuizen

Generation YES » Youth & Educators Succeeding - 4 views

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    "Generation YES is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) with a mission to empower students and teachers to use technology to improve education in their own school. Our school-friendly online tools and innovative project-based curriculum build a learning community where students work alongside their teachers as technology leaders, collaborators and mentors. 15 years of research experience and proven scientific results show that when schools trust and collaborate with their students to integrate technology, academic success follows."
Roland Gesthuizen

Compress PDF - Reduce your PDF Online for Free | Smallpdf.com - 3 views

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    "Is your pdf document too large to send by email? Would you like to reduce the size of your pdf? Smallpdf.com compresses your pdf in the cloud for free to a perfect size that is still good quality."
Roland Gesthuizen

A linguistic dissection of 7 annoying teenage sounds - The Week - 3 views

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    "he next time you find yourself wondering about the highest use of linguistics, or enduring the insulting grunts and groans of petulant adolescents and wondering how such noises could even be described, bring the two worlds together. Clearly, linguistics exists just so we can give a technical description of those hard-to-spell sounds that erupt from callow youths. Here are seven examples (with three bonus variations)." check out the video below!
Roland Gesthuizen

Domo Animate - Make your own Domo Animations and Slideshows with GoAnimate's super easy... - 6 views

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    "Domo Animate (from the creators of Go Animate) is a school-friendly version of Go Animate for pupils to create animations free online.  It lets pupils animate characters of their choice and add music and sound effects from a bank of sounds.  Pupils can add speech as text bubbles and add interactive elemtns for story-telling activities. "
Roland Gesthuizen

NeatoCode Techniques, First Facial Recognition Hack for Google Glass - 1 views

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    "My team wrote an app at a medical hackathon called MedRef for Glass. The app lets you find and create patient folders by voice, add photo and voice notes, view previous notes, and also find patient folders by facial recognition! Very exciting."
Roland Gesthuizen

Laser Cut Record - 0 views

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    "hs so that it can be modified for any song, material, cutting machine, record size, and turntable speed (skip ahead to download the code and learn how to make your own records)."
Roland Gesthuizen

Man's Arm Saved By IPad In Garbage Truck Crash| Phillip Island - 1 views

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    "The iPad is renowned as a multipurpose tool but Phillip Island building supervisor Neville Toms might have found an alternate use for it that would have Steve Jobs smiling from beyond the grave."
Roland Gesthuizen

Free Technology for Teachers: Spacewalk - A Multiplayer Game for Exploring the Space St... - 2 views

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    "Spacewalk is a new multiplayer game in which players explore the International Space Station. The game is a free-form game. Spacewalk players take on the roles of astronauts in the International Space Station."
Roland Gesthuizen

To the space station and beyond with Linux | ZDNet - 2 views

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    "NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux."
Roland Gesthuizen

'CodeSpells' wizard game teaches you how to program in Java (Wired UK) - 10 views

  • The aim was to keep children engaged while they are learning programming, which can be frustrating
  • he developed the game because there is a lack of qualified instructors to teaching computer science below college level in a way that is accessible
  • emergent use of code to surmount challenges of one's own making is an act that fits our definition of exploratory play
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  • analysed how 30 successful programmers learnt their trade.  They found that activities had to be structured by the person who is trying to learn and that learning must be creative and exploratory as well as 'sticky' -- successful programmers would spend hours and hours coding
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    "A team of computer scientists has developed a videogame called CodeSpells that teaches people how to code in Java."
Roland Gesthuizen

Making your own phone is easier than you might think - tech - 21 March 2013 - New Scien... - 3 views

  • because I built it, I'm starting to grow quite attached to it.
  • That's right: I just built a cellphone. By hand
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    "Our reporter builds a handcrafted cellphone using widely available parts and online instructions"
Roland Gesthuizen

Hacktivities - 2 views

  • A Diving In activity is one that gives pointed instruction to participants on tools or procedures.
  • A Hands on Hacking activity is a practical activity that allows learners to delve deeper into the essential questions of your session
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    "This page lists all the Icebreaker, Diving In and Hands on Hacking Hacktivities found in the various Hacktivity Kits."
Roland Gesthuizen

Google Maps Indoor Technology | Map Indoors | Photos - 2 views

  • technology instead used the inertial sensors built into smartphones such as accelerometers and gyroscopes to calculate the user's location by measuring their acceleration and orientation from a starting point. This data is then crunched by complex algorithms
  • Location based services are part of the next revolution of smartphone and tablet applications
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    "Google has launched indoor maps in Australia allowing users to find their way around inside airports, shopping centres, train stations and other large buildings using their mobile devices."
Roland Gesthuizen

Social Media Guidelines For Students And Job Seekers - Edudemic - 2 views

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    "..what about when students need some advice in figuring out proper social media usage in general? This useful infographic from Online Degrees is jam-packed with insight and tips on when to (and when not to) use social media"
Roland Gesthuizen

Deakin School News Network - 0 views

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    "Around 60 students and staff from four DSNN schools took part in the first Deakin Media Day at the Burwood campus on Nov 23rd 2012. Many thanks to everyone from Brauer College, Keysborough Secondary College, North Geelong Secondary College and Newcomb Secondary College for your enthusiasm and hard work to make the day such a success. Activities included a 'hands-on' work presenting a live news bulletin in Deakin's TV studio, Journalism video and interviewing exercises and a tour of the Deakin campus. Many thanks to Subway for providing lunch, too! We will be running more Deakin Media Days in June and November, 2013, so watch out for more news about these."
Roland Gesthuizen

ICTEV2013: IT Takes A Village State Conference | ICTEV - 0 views

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    "ICTEV encourages you to be part of our 2013 state conference to be held on Saturday 25th May 2013, with the theme IT Takes A Village. The educational landscape is no longer one of isolation and remoteness. Teachers, students and communities are now part of the greater picture of global learning. The development of ICT has had a huge impact on this ability to share, communicate and collaborate. As educators we can help promote and tell the stories of our craft, our innovations, the successes and challenges. "
Roland Gesthuizen

Lego Bubble Sort - YouTube - 5 views

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    "The stop motion of algorithm of bubble sort with Lego bricks. Category Science & Technology"
Roland Gesthuizen

Another Incredible Timelapse from the ISS - 4 views

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    "We never get tired of these amazing views from the International Space Station, but this one has it all: a silvery Moon setting into the Earth's atmosphere, the dazzling Milky Way rising into a brilliant sunrise, airglow of all colors, popping lightning, shimmering aurorae, and incredible views of the stunning space station and our gorgeous planet."
Roland Gesthuizen

How to Conduct Scientific Research On the Internet (Without Getting Duped) - 2 views

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    "You know how to tell if something controversial is actually true, but what if you want to read up on something without stumbling into half-truths and pseudoscience? Here's how to use the internet as a powerful research tool without being led astray."
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