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QR codes are here and they are going mainstream. MR Robbo the PE geek, myself and others are using these IN CLASS and they are useful ways of augmenting reality. Time to learn because people are going to be talking!

This is is a very important study from the U.K. and Office of Standards in Education in 2009 entitled "The Safe use of new technologies" showed that where provision for e-safety was outstanding all used 'managed' systems to help pupils to become safe and responsible users of new technologies." This is being cited EVERYWHERE. Take a look.

Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all?

Putting free courses online was the first step in reimagining education. What now?

Shared by Hall Davidson at NetGenEd 2010 Discovery Education series on making real movies

Shows inexpensive ways that educational organizations could use augmented reality

Video games in education

CopyCat is designed both as a platform to collect gesture data for our ASL recognition system and as a practical application which helps deaf children acquire language skills while they play the game. The system uses a video camera and wrist mounted accelerometers as the primary sensors.

A finctional real-life example of how ebooks can be used to bennefit education.

Customization!! The user of this technology no longer has to settle for two-dimention diagrams or not having enough information at hand. Each individual is able to use AR to help them better learn and understand. They can choose what works best for them, manipulating diagrams and performing virtual

procedures in order to customize their learning. They are customizing their own learning because they are given additional options and opportunities to learn more instead of only guided to follow the specific teaching technique of the teacher(which not always works for each student).

Each student is able to view different angles of each diagram when they feel they need more help understanding what it is about, or performing a procedure multiple times from multiple angles when more practice is needed.

AUSTIN, Texas, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- GetYa Learn On, LLC - an educational software company that created the innovative application called "Statistics I" - today released empirical findings from a pilot study conducted during the Fall semester of 2009 at Abilene Christian University (ACU). Students in an introductory Statistics class were given the new iPhone application which was used to supplement the instructor's lectures and for studying and test preparation. Statistics I is based on a rich Mobile Learning Platform™ that includes lessons, touch-screen simulations, calculators, decision making tools, quizzes, flashcards, formulas, and a glossary. The Statistics I app has been converted into an iPad E-Textbook and is under review for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.

If students wish to contact the writers of this report - have their teacher talk to Mrs. Davis - I have their email!

Don Tapscott asks students and educators to share what they are doing for "national volunteer week" even if you are not in the USA- share what you're doing this month (Earth Day is coming up.) He's listening, let's talk and engage in conversation.

Free webinars from Discovery on Learn Central and Elluminate as part of the NetGenEd project - you're invited! Webinar 1 - Joe Brennan, Storyboarding Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2010-04-07.0651.M.E863950419.... Other sessions are listed below. These sessions are also being promoted on LearnCentral (http://www.learncentral.org) as part of the community events calendar. The link to the room for you and/or your students is: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2007066&password=M.F69412.... Webinar 2 (Zone 2) April 14, 9pm EST, Hall Davidson host Topic: Budgeting / Big Picture Webinar 3 (Zone 1) April 21, 11am EST, Joe Brennan host Topic: Sound Webinar 4 (Zone 2) April 28, 9pm EST, Hall Davidson host Topic: Acting

Links to information on digital film webinars for netGenEd 2010.

AtBentley, there's network access across campus and in the residence halls; utilizing wireless when on the go, and plugging in when you are in need of the high speed wired access. (Mobile computing benefiting education, colleges even handout technology for student use)

Open content could become more mainstream in higher education this year. The movement holds great potential for the higher education space where the New Media Consortium (NMC)--which publishes The Horizon Report annually in collaboration with Educause Learning Initiative--identifies it as a trend whose adoption rate will be one year or less.

developers of new augmented reality program for education