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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Cole Camplese

Cole Camplese

In Silicon Valley, Buying Companies for Their Engineers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Some technology blogs call it being “acqhired.” The companies doing the buying say it is a talent acquisition, and it typically comes with a price per head.
Cole Camplese

northern voice 2011 jam session | D'Arcy Norman dot net - 0 views

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    Link to the panel discussion on DS106 Radio from Northern Voice.
Cole Camplese

Economics Game Ramp Up: Effective Achievements - Zac Zidik - 6 views

  • The real challenge in designing this game will be designing it so that there are many paths to success and and many paths to failure with all the mediums inbetween, while continually keeping the player informed on how they are doing in regards to the "expected achievements."
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    Good post from Zac on design elements for game achievments.
Cole Camplese

DNA/How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet - 1 views

  • I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this: 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; 2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; 3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
  • In other words the cost of connection is rapidly approaching zero, and for a very simple reason: the value of the web increases with every single additional person who joins it. It’s in everybody’s interest for costs to keep dropping closer and closer to nothing until every last person on the planet is connected.
  • Another problem with the net is that it’s still ‘technology’, and ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’ We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‘crash’ when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs (and a couple of decades or so after that, as sheets of paper or grains of sand) and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I’m sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for ‘productivity.’
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  • The same thing is happening in communication technology. Most of us are stumbling along in a kind of pidgin version of it, squinting myopically at things the size of fridges on our desks, not quite understanding where email goes, and cursing at the beeps of mobile phones. Our children, however, are doing something completely different. Risto Linturi, research fellow of the Helsinki Telephone Corporation, quoted in Wired magazine, describes the extraordinary behaviour kids in the streets of Helsinki, all carrying cellphones with messaging capabilities. They are not exchanging important business information, they’re just chattering, staying in touch. "We are herd animals," he says. "These kids are connected to their herd – they always know where it’s moving." Pervasive wireless communication, he believes will "bring us back to behaviour patterns that were natural to us and destroy behaviour patterns that were brought about by the limitations of technology."
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    Great piece by the late Douglas Adams in 1999.  So true in the rearview mirror!
Cole Camplese

Web Search: Teaching and Learning with Technology: Using Apps to Enhance Learning for U... - 8 views

  • Honestly, there is already a lot on my plate with teaching and research; however, I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with Cole Camplese, Allan Gyorke, Brad Kozlek, and the rest of the TLT folks. (Note: Cole is a definite ‘early adopter’ and teaches a very popular course at Penn State on disruptive technologies.)
Cole Camplese

Webcasting and Lecture Capture Solutions | Desire2Learn® Capture - 1 views

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    A very interesting solution for lecture capture that I would like to see reviewed.
Cole Camplese

Student Training | Computing @ UW-Madison - 3 views

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    Interesting program for students at UW.
Cole Camplese

Amplifying Conversations - Derek C. Gittler at PSU TLT - 4 views

  • My sense, from my marketing experience, is that those providing some product or service too often wish to be the ones defining what a product is or how it is used. They forget that it's the user, and it can only be the user, each individual independent user, that defines a product's value. Therefore, whatever products, services, means, TLT hopes to provide to students and faculty is, to a great extent, out of our control. The final use, the final value, can only exist in the mind of the person served. Likewise the resulting network isn't something that's defined in advance, but one that develops from each person participating in conversation.
  • While certain metrics are valuable and have their place, number of workstations, number of log-ins, number of postings and comments on blogs, those things are and will remain items that are only important to TLT itself. What is more important, and much more difficult to define and measure, is how value in the mind of faculty and students is satisfied.
Cole Camplese

Banana TV - 1 views

  • What is Banana TV? Banana TV lets you use AirPlay (and now AirTunes!) for your Mac as well - play video or images from your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2 or higher directly onto any networked Mac.
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    Could be an interesting option for enabling AirPlay on classroom machines.  Lots to figure out, but a starting point.
Cole Camplese

Want to learn Pashto? There's an app for that.: IU Home Pages: Faculty and staff news f... - 1 views

  • Language specialists at Indiana University have developed a new application for the iPad that will help people working in strategic areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan to read and write in Pashto, one of the region's primary languages.
Cole Camplese

2010 Letter to Shareholders - 2 views

  • Invention is in our DNA and technology is the fundamental tool we wield to evolve and improve every aspect of the experience we provide our customers. We still have a lot to learn, and I expect and hope we’ll continue to have so much fun learning it. I take great pride in being part of this team.
  • nvention is in our DNA and technology is the fundamental tool we wield to evolve and improve every aspect of the experience we provide our customers. We still have a lot to learn, and I expect and hope we’ll continue to have so much fun learning it. I take great pride in being part of this team.
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    I like that statement quite a bit.  Would love to think about that as a starting point for the way we think about TLT.
Cole Camplese

Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice - 2 views

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    I don't care if you agree with the science, this represents the first real interactive text designed for iOS that I have seen.  I can't even imagine how much this thing cost to make, but it looks really stunning.  But at 4.99 it seems like a mind bending opportunity to learn about interaction design.
Cole Camplese

New website to unify students - The Daily Collegian Online - 3 views

  • One founder of the site, David Adewumi, said the idea was spurred by the features Penn State’s current ANGEL course management system lacks. “Everyone knows ANGEL is terrible for students,” Adewumi (senior-Spanish) said. “It’s about managing courses for faculty and staff. We’re making a solution that is perfect for what students need to do group things.”
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    I think all the LMS/CMS venders could use help in the social, bottom up world of collaboration around learning.
Cole Camplese

7 Things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons | EDUCAUSE - 4 views

  • The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the learning commons brings together the functions of libraries, labs, lounges, and seminar areas in a single community gathering place. The cost of a learning commons can be an obstacle, but for institutions that invest in a sophisticated learning commons, the new and expanded partnerships across disciplines facilitate and promote greater levels of collaboration. The commons invites students to devise their own approaches to their work and to transfer what they learn in one course to the work they do for another.
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    This is a critical discussion today and will be more important going forward. If TLT wants to create a vision related to creating the best learning spaces in higher education we need to better understand what is and isn't working.  My emerging goal is to establish a strategic direction that has us look at our spaces on a continuum from very informal to very formal in a consistent and systematic way.
Cole Camplese

10 Ways Open CourseWare Has Freed Education | MindShift - 1 views

  • ALLOWING CUSTOMIZATION. MIT OCW is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Non-Commercial License. That means that teachers and learners are able to share and remix the content that’s available.
  • ENCOURAGING SHARING. Do educators have an ethical responsibility to share? Open CourseWare reminds us that a large part of our role as educators is to share knowledge, and we should work to remove the barriers that make that possible.
Cole Camplese

Higher education: Is it really the next bubble? | The Economist - 6 views

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    Interesting surface level exploration of the edu bubble.
Cole Camplese

Joho the Blog » Why you won't care that the Net isn't neutral - 0 views

  • With so little competition, the access providers will be able to jack up fast lane prices as high as the richest players in the market can bear. So, let’s say Google decides to pay the access providers for “fast lane” service, but Bing does not. You’ll notice that Google results fly in, while Bing seems to be having trouble digesting its oatmeal. You won’t know if that’s because Bing’s search engine is slower or because it didn’t pony up for fast lane service. All you’ll know is that you’re not going back to Bing.
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