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Shelly Terrell

iPads in the Classroom - Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - 0 views

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Barbara Lindsey

Social Media in Africa, Part 1 - ReadWriteWeb - 1 views

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  • undergoing a connectivity revolution
  • Africa
  • Part One of this series looks at social media contributions from Africans, Part Two looks at mobile and connectivity innovations and Part Three looks at how local Governments, NGOs and nonprofits are being affected.
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  • Technology unconferences and Barcamps have sprung up all over the continent, everywhere from Kenya to Nairobi to Madagascar to Uganda and Senegal.
  • The three biggest success stories of independent social media projects taking off in Africa are Afrigator (a South African aggregator of African blogs and news), Zoopy (a YouTube/Flickr like service also out of South Africa) and Ushahidi (an SMS crisis reporting and mapping engine from Kenya). All three have drawn international attention which resulted in a major investment for Zoopy and Afrigator's acquisition (ReadWriteWeb's coverage). Meanwhile Ushahidi has successfully raised several rounds of funding after winning the Net2 Mashup Compeition prize of $25,000.
  • Afrigator defines itself as "a social media aggregator and directory built especially for African digital citizens who publish and consume content on the web."
  • Zoopy is a South African social media tool created by Jason Elk that allows users to upload videos, podcasts, and pictures and share them on the web.
  • Ushahidi relies heavily upon GoogleMaps, which it uses for mapping reports of incidents. It's built on the Zend framework for PHP and uses a number of different protocols for SMS, GPRS and mapping data.
    • Barbara Lindsey
      Barbara Lindsey on 13 Oct 08
       
      Example of mashup and use of geomapping.
  • The applications to follow are definitely the ones that leverage the mobile telephony infrastructure. An overwhelming portion of African users have no convenient access beyond cellular terminals - and that has spawned very innovative solutions based on existing and widely accessible technologies such as SMS. Examples abound such as Mpesa, Celpay, Etranzact and everyone else who is thriving in that formerly almost entirely cash-bound insecure environment. Underdeveloped banking and underdeveloped fixed telecommunications infrastructures are huge opportunities.
Sebastian Weber

DeWitt Clinton » Blog Archive » On Web 2.0 - 0 views

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  • While the Internet started growing decades earlier, it was the release of the first Mosaic web browser that heralded in a new revolution. Though it reached its peak in less than ten years, the era of Web 1.0 will be long remembered as a turning point in human society. As we are still deep in the midst of all of the change it is easy to overlook just how profound the Internet revolution really is.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Netscape als Inbegriff von Web 1.0
  • Web 1.0 was the great equalizer. It put everyone on the same playing field. A single individual sitting at a computer in the remotest region of the globe had the ability to publish as easily and as widely as the largest newspapers. While it has taken several years to get to the point where this has become commonplace (for reasons that may be explained in defining Web 2.0), even the earliest days of the web turned the conventions on their head. From private citizens like Matt Drudge to garage startups like Amazon.com, Web 1.0 was the beginning of an era in which the smallest player on the field could have just as much impact as the largest conventional institution.
  • Yet the technology of Web 1.0 was simultaneously both ground-breaking and surprisingly traditional. It was ground-breaking in the sense that it reduced the cost of data distribution to nearly nothing. Yet it was traditional in the sense that it generally followed the model of the printing press. (Albeit with very, very inexpensive machinery.) It allowed anyone to run their own printing press, and it removed the middle man from the distribution process. Web 1.0 was a revolution in which hundreds of millions of consumers found their way to millions of new producers.
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  • The legacy of Web 1.0 will be felt for years to come. In fact, the vast majority of traffic on the Internet still follows this paradigm. You have an endless number of sites, large and small, that still present their view of the world in a tightly controlled environment — managed explicitly at all times between the client and the server. For example, if you shop at Expedia or Travelocity you will be able to buy plane tickets, but you will do so reading their content, using their interface, using their shopping cart, all on their web site.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      web applications / sites were isolated solutions and they were isolated information silos and not connected with each other
  • Thus Web 1.0 was the enabling of the small individual to present itself on par with a much larger entity.
  • Before we get to Web 2.0., it is useful to consider what does not characterize Web 2.0. For instance, for all of the love that rich client-side AJAX applications such as Gmail have earned, that alone does not make them Web 2.0. Simply having a Flash or WML interface or a XHTML+CSS homepage is not enough to qualify.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      What qualify web applications to be Web 2.0?
  • There is an intermediary stage in between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Chronologically, of course, nothing is that linear — patterns sometimes arrive early, sometimes far before the world is ready for them. There is a tremendous amount of overlap in each of these phases, and nothing is dying off completely.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      I agree with this view. Web 2.0 concepts existed as ideas earlier.
  • Web 1.5 was an early tremor that signaled that data, all data, wanted to break free of the tightly controlled environments of before. Web 1.5 was the birth of the web service API. Amazon’s Web Services are one of the earliest examples of a large scale web services API with meaningful data. Other major sites followed suit — EBay, Yahoo!, Google, have all exposed web services that enable people to access the underlying data without being cornered into one particular application of that data. But this alone is not Web 2.0, though it is a very important step in that direction.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Exposing Web Service interfaces alone is not Web 2.0, rather Web 1.5
  • Web 2.0 is about giving up control. It is about setting the data free. It is about providing services that work with other people’s data. It is about having a valuable resource and making no presumptions about how or where that resource will be used.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Web 2.0 definition
  • There are two traits that characterize Web 2.0 and differentiate it from Web 1.5. First, Web 2.0 APIs tend to be symmetrical and reciprocal in the sense that not only can data be read out via published interfaces, but can it also be written into those interfaces. This is most apparent when the API is REST-based and supports the full HTTP method set of GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, etc. SOAP APIs can also qualify, and the Web Service Description Language (WSDL) is a necessary component for the discovery of such interfaces. Second, Web 2.0 APIs are open standards with formal semantic meaning. This, more than anything else, differentiates the applications of Web 2.0 from those that came before. For example, the Amazon Web Services APIs are incredibly rich, but in order to use them a client application must be specifically aware of the AWS protocols and formats. Similarly, in order to use Google Maps, a client application must know specifically about, and code specifically to, the Google API.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      comparison of Web 1.5 and Web 2.0
  • Where Web 1.5 is about exposing the data, Web 2.0 is about giving that data meaning and thereby setting it free.
  • Web 2.0 is the syndication of data, and syndicating it in such a way that anyone, anywhere can use the results. Web 2.0 does not lock the consumer (who also becomes a producer) into rigid use cases — it intentionally forfeits that control in favor of much greater returns. And Web 2.0 adds semantic meaning to the data so that the interconnected network of consumers and producers can evolve and adapt and thrive as the system grows. And importantly, Web 2.0 is about symmetrical and reciprocal relationships between producers and consumers to the point where the lines become blurred and one becomes the other.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Web 2.0 definition
  • In a sense, Web 3.0 will be more of the same. This incremental stage will be characterized by our ability to stream media in real-time — similar to the way that Web 2.0 lets us syndicate much simpler data today. Convergence will extend to include streaming video and audio over interoperable channels.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Web 3.0: * stream large amounts of multimedia data * easier and more powerful content syndication
  • Your handheld mobile device will call the same media APIs that your flat-panel plasma display does.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Mobile Web / Pervasive Web
  • If Web 2.0 is about the convergence of text and semantic data, Web 3.0 will do the same for all digital media.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      Up to Web 2.0 everything about content is text-centric.
  • And to go really out on a limb — what will Web 10.0 be? Most likely, even more along those lines. Imagine a scenario in which any data — all data — can be instantaneously streamed anywhere at anytime. Your very experiences, your senses, perhaps even your thoughts, will be broadcast and archived for anyone to download and view. All human knowledge will be publicly accessible — all music, all art, all media, all things. The distinction between human thought and computer thought will be blurred. We will be part of the network, the network will be part of us. We will be the hive mind, and we collectively will have evolved into something quite unlike anything the world has ever seen.
    • Sebastian Weber
      Sebastian Weber on 05 Jun 08
       
      "Web 10.0" -> look into the future. Distinction between human thoughts and computer thoughts will be blurred
Ian Chia

Auburn School - Kindergarten Ipad Program Sees Positive Results - 0 views

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  • Ian Chia on 22 Feb 12
     
    Kindergarten Ipad Program Sees Positive Results Auburn, Maine, Research Study Initial Results Are In The initial results are in. iPads increased kindergarten literacy scores according to a new study from Auburn, Maine. Auburn School Department made world news last summer when they announced they were providing all of their incoming kindergarten students with Apple iPads. As one component of their district-wide Advantage 2014 program, Auburn educators are promoting the iPad and its apps as a dynamic literacy and math tool for students. The Advantage 2014 program seeks to bolster 3rd grade literacy and math scores by 2015, and the first phase of their research study is making them hopeful of attaining this goal. Auburn kindergarten teacher at Fairview Elementary School, Michelle Green thinks, "Being part of the Advantage 2014 iPad project is very special. It has been an eye opening opportunity to watch children use a tool of technology to learn in a way I never did as a child." Michelle's colleague at Washburn Elementary School, Jess Prue, agrees, "We are not only giving kids a new engaging way to learn, we are also preparing them for technology in the future. It is exciting!" Since Auburn is the nation's first public school system to provide iPads to each of their youngest students, the district is closely examining the program through a yearlong research study. Dr. Mike Muir, Auburn School Department's Multiple Pathways Leader, stated, "Too many innovative programs don't prioritize their own research, and even if they collect observations and stories later, they don't make the effort to do a randomized control trial, like we did. We wanted to make sure we could objectively examine the contribution of the iPads."
Barbara Lindsey

Social Media in Africa, Part 2: Mobile Innovations - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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  • social media technology conference PICNIC2008
  • conference featured prolific social entrepreneurs and technology developers from around the world who offered insight into various projects from the African continent.
  • Africa is unique in that it seems to have bypassed the same era of community infrastructure building that has occurred in developed nations around the world.
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  • most of the technologies that currently permeate Africa aren't terrestrial. There are very few telephone lines, but mobile penetration is higher than any other region in the world.
  • Instead, internet connectivity is distributed nearly entirely by satellite.
  • The developers who are coming up with solutions in the continent, the ones who are writing software or hacking hardware, are creating for some of the harshest environments and use-cases in the world. If it works in Africa, it will work anywhere."
  • Perhaps this thought is what motivated Google to invest in O3B Networks earlier this month. O3B Networks is an ambitious attempt to bring three billion people in the developing world (mainly in parts of Asia and Africa) online by launching sixteen inexpensive, low-orbit satellites. The potential benefits for Google are obvious. This is three billion new internet users, who will more than likely use Google to search, and who will potentially click-through Adsense links and use other Google products. An indicator that Google may be anticipating as much is their move into Africa last year. They've since opened offices and hired people in both South Africa and Kenya with plans to eventually operate out of all sub-Saharan African countries.
  • At the end of 2007 there were over 280 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, representing a penetration rate of 30.4% Africa has become the fastest growing mobile market in the world with mobile penetration in the region ranging from 30% to 100% from country to country. Fastest growing markets are in Nigeria, South Africa and Egypt
  • The Democratic Republic of Congo, population 60 million, has 10,000 fixed telephones but more than a million mobile phone subscribers. In Chad, the fifth-least developed country, mobile phone usage jumped from 10,000 to 200,000 in three years.
  • Micro-payments and Mobile Banking
  • Mobile News Reporting
Barbara Lindsey

Social Media in Africa, Part 3: Democracy - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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  • Traditionally, the greatest power that governments have held over their people has been information. The promise that connectivity brings to Africa is that people are now using that abundance of information for oversight of government and more interaction with administrations. To say that the propagation of internet and mobile connectivity in Africa has been disruptive is an understatement.
  • When the Ethiopian government instituted an SMS filtering service to censor mobile communication, the developers behind Feedelix responded swiftly. They created their product Feedlix, a java-based client that supports Amharic, Chinese and Hindi characters. The application then uses GPRS, through internet protocols, to mimic SMS and bypass the censoring filter put in place by the government.
  • Sokwanele is a civic action support group campaigning for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe. Their website includes an 'election violence map' that provides detailed information related to localized occurrences of violence related to the election. During the most recent crisis in Zimbabwe, Sokwanele was used to get information out of the country when the government began restricting communication.
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  • The most exciting aspect for me, however, is the decreased reliance on developmental aid and foreign groups to provide these solutions. The number of African developers who are beginning to create applications that offer solutions for their own communities is increasing and that, more than anything else, will shape the future of Africa.
  • When Moroccan blogger Mohamed Erraj was jailed for disparaging the government in his online magazine, Hespress, it was through the efforts of other bloggers (like the writers at GlobalVoicesOnline) and people using applications like Twitter that his story made international news. The added pressure of having the whole world paying attention is perhaps what convinced the Moroccan government to let him free where traditionally his actions could have resulted in much harsher punishment.
  • Africa is producing some very unique and innovative technologies
Shelly Terrell

How to set up a QR Code Treasure Hunt - 0 views

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  • A QR-Code Treasure Hunt is a fun, simple way to get students using their mobile devices to continue learning outside of lesson time. Here's how we set one up at the International School of Toulouse with some guidance on how to do the same with your own students using the QR Treasure Hunt Generator at ClassTools.net.
  • Shelly Terrell on 07 Jun 12
     
    A QR-Code Treasure Hunt is a fun, simple way to get students using their mobile devices to continue learning outside of lesson time. Here's how we set one up at the International School of Toulouse with some guidance on how to do the same with your own students using the QR Treasure Hunt Generator at ClassTools.net.
Jenny Smith

iPhone Application Development.pdf - 0 views

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  • Jenny Smith on 14 Oct 15
     
    iOS Application WeeTech Solution offers a wide variety of special services in iPhone App Development. With a team of experienced iphone app developers, WeeTech Solution brings a wide range of iPhone apps that make us a prominent player in the global market. With innovative iphone app development approach, we always focused towards long termvalue of our customer's investment in mobile computing platform. We have been engaged in the apps design and development industry for several years. All throughout these years, we have successfully developed hundreds of applications for a wide variety of spheres and enterprises.
andrew mathew

Free gifts with mobile phones: Alluring and tempting gifts: GoArticles.com - 0 views

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  • andrew mathew on 17 Sep 08
     
    What does the phrase 'Pay as you go' mean? Then what is a 'contract phone'? Although the terms may seem confusing but the meaning is very simple. The former phrase refers to phones which help you to keep a track of your spendings and the latter refers to phones which come with monthly bills. When a person buys a phone he normally gets a gift. These gifts may be T-Shirts, pen in the case of pay as you go phones and Laptops and CD's in the case of contract phones. Hence these free gifts with mobile phones are varied in number and types. However, whatever be the gift, the feeling of getting it is always fantastic.
Doughlas David

One Step Closer To Your Dreams - 1 views

The trains and railways provide speed and ease to travelling passengers. I love trains and that motivates me to Become a train driver. I really want to drive a train myself. I want to take every ...

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Nik Peachey

Nik's Quick Shout: iPad Apps for English Language Teachers - 0 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 18 Nov 10
     
    "Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried."
  • Nik Peachey on 18 Nov 10
     
    Well like a lot of people I've bought an iPad over the summer and I've been having my first taste of shopping for apps to extend the capabilities of the iPad. I've also been having a look at how some of these can be used for language learning, so I thought I would share with you a little bit of information about the first few apps I've tried.
andrew mathew

Free gifts with mobile phones: Alluring and tempting gifts - 9 views

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Jenny Smith

iPhone Application Development - 0 views

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  • Jenny Smith on 14 Oct 15
     
    WeeTech Solution offers a wide variety of special services in iPhone App Development. With a team of experienced iphone app developers, WeeTech Solution brings a wide range of iPhone apps that make us a prominent player in the global market. With innovative iphone app development approach, we always focused towards long term value of our customer's investment in mobile computing platform.
Child Therapy

Coaching Both Parent And Child - 1 views

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Steve Yuen

Mobile App Marketplace: $17.5 Billion by 2012 - 0 views

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  • According to a study commissioned by mobile application store operator GetJar, the mobile application market will reach $17.5 billion by 2012. By then, the number of mobile application downloads will have also grown to nearly 50 billion from just over 7 billion in 2009.
  • Here are a few other highlights from the report (via Paid Content and TechCrunch): The annual growth rate for mobile app downloads is 92% By 2012, off-deck, paid apps will be the biggest source of revenue In 2009, mobile operators accounted for more than 60% of apps' revenue By 2012, mobile operators will account for less than 23% of apps' revenue The app store growth (8 to 38 by 2012) is an increase of 375% Average app selling price is $1.09 in North America, $0.20 in South America and $0.10 in Asia Revenue opportunities in Europe will grow from $1.5 billion in 2009 to $8.5 billion in 2012 Revenue opportunities in North America will grow from $2.1 billion to around $6.7 billion in 2012 Apps are most popular in Asia where they account for 37% of global downloads this past year Users spent the most for apps in North America where they account for over 50% of revenue
Sora Lee

Learning SEO Techniques through Online Courses - 1 views

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Ian Chia

Suren Ramasubbu: What Are Mobile Devices Teaching Your Kids? - 0 views

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  • Ian Chia on 01 Jun 11
     
    In the United States, many schools are seeing six-year-olds with cell phones. The average UK kid gets their first cell phone at eight. Children's access to mobile devices is staggering, as you can see from the "Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile!" survey. For instance, among middle school (6th-8th grade) students:59 percent have a cell phone24 percent have an Internet-enabled Smartphone53 percent have a personal laptop or tablet A generation of students is growing up with a different level of access to information at their collective fingertips
Mobiletech Force

Mistakes That Must Be Avoided While Developing Your First Mobile App - 0 views

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  • Mobiletech Force on 09 Mar 15
     
    A lot of people made mistake while developing their first-mobile application, so they need to be careful and have to mistakes to develop a successful app. This blog contains a list of common mistakes that you should avoid and develop a first innovative mobile app.
Mobiletech Force

Advantages That You Can Get By Choosing a Right Mobile App Development Company - 0 views

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  • Mobiletech Force on 31 Mar 15
     
    Having a feature-rich mobile app is not easily possible as you have to choose a right mobile app development company that can deliver a lot of benefits. Check-out this blog and know which benefits you can get!
Jenny Smith

ios app company | Mobile Application Development Services - 0 views

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  • Jenny Smith on 11 Dec 15
     
    Posts about ios app company written by Jenny Smith Mobile Application Development For iPhone & iOS Devices WeeTech Solution offers a wide variety of special services in iPhone App Development. With a team of experienced iphone app developers, WeeTech Solution brings a wide range of iPhone apps that make us a prominent player in the global market. With innovative iphone app development approach, we always focused towards long term value of our customer's investment in mobile computing platform.
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