Answer Garden claims to be "A minimal tool for maximum feedback"
What Web2.0 tool tops your list for use in education?... at AnswerGarden.ch.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Quick brainstorm
Just checking out Answer Garden quick feedback poll.
Answer Garden claims to be "A minimal tool for maximum feedback"
Answer Garden claims to be "A minimal tool for maximum feedback"
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Augmented Reality and Ubiquitous Learning
Interest in Augmented Reality (AR) and its potential for education has increased greatly in the past 6 months. It was highlighted as one of the emerging technologies to watch in the '2010 Horizon Report K-12 Edition' (pdf) Collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN).
'Exile on Your Street' by The Rolling Stones is an example where users can create a virtual poster, with a track from Exile on Main St. To view the poster you need an iPhone 3GS or Android plus the mobile AR browser, Layar.
Two other examples are the ACWAR Civil War project and London: past and present in London Museum Releases Cool Augmented Reality App and Street Museum.
7Scenes is an exciting mobile storytelling platform. Some colleagues tried this out last week as a team, testing its creative potential for creating a mobile virtual tour with images, text, audio and questions in the local area. Great teamwork and the geolocation feature is really cool.
An e-School news item , 'Augmented reality takes hold in classrooms' (Educators say enhanced learning experiences can lead to engaging lessons) by Laura Devaney (May 10, 2010) suggests that AR 'raises the level of interaction for students'. This involves mobile / handheld GPS-enabled devices, connectivity, creativity and imagination.
AR is taking the world of marketing by storm and an article by Chris Cameron in ReadWriteWeb (June 23, 2010) asks the question, Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Planet?
Ubiquitous learning, anywhere anytime is part of the mobile learning landscape.
"Augmented reality has strong potential to provide both powerful, contextual, in situ learning experiences and serendipitous exploration and discovery of the connected nature of information in the real world'Advances in mobile devices, better connectivity, new and simple tools, new and creative learning experiences and a fascination with geolocation have contributed to the buzz.
2010 Horizon Report K-12 Edition'
Augmented Reality in Education
One of my favourite sources of up to date information on AR is Digital Buzz. And, of course, the twitterverse.View more presentations from Karen Hamilton.
'Exile on Your Street' by The Rolling Stones is an example where users can create a virtual poster, with a track from Exile on Main St. To view the poster you need an iPhone 3GS or Android plus the mobile AR browser, Layar.
Two other examples are the ACWAR Civil War project and London: past and present in London Museum Releases Cool Augmented Reality App and Street Museum.
7Scenes is an exciting mobile storytelling platform. Some colleagues tried this out last week as a team, testing its creative potential for creating a mobile virtual tour with images, text, audio and questions in the local area. Great teamwork and the geolocation feature is really cool.
An e-School news item , 'Augmented reality takes hold in classrooms' (Educators say enhanced learning experiences can lead to engaging lessons) by Laura Devaney (May 10, 2010) suggests that AR 'raises the level of interaction for students'. This involves mobile / handheld GPS-enabled devices, connectivity, creativity and imagination.
"A small but growing number of (US) schools across the nation are turning classroom lessons into engaging experiences with augmented reality (AR), a technology that overlays digital information on top of real-world surroundings as viewed through a smart phone or other handheld, GPS-enabled device."
AR is taking the world of marketing by storm and an article by Chris Cameron in ReadWriteWeb (June 23, 2010) asks the question, Can Augmented Reality Help Save the Planet?
Ubiquitous learning, anywhere anytime is part of the mobile learning landscape.
Beyond Augmented Reality: Ubiquitous Media Experiences
What are your thoughts on AR?
View more presentations from Lightning Laboratories.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
Best ways of using Moodle on Slidseshare by Sandra Pires
The 'Best ways of using Moodle' Slidseshare by Sandra Pires is a useful resource for teachers considering how they might better utilise the potential of Moodle to enhance the learning experiences for their students.
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Creating, capturing, sharing
I have been trying out a few online tools from my Delicious bookmarks (Vonnie) and this experiment involves a pet theme of digital citizenship, utilising a UK bullying flash poster tool, with an option to make use of QR-Codes and mobiles to capture and share the result.
I opted to tweet my demo poster (image below) to join the others on Twitter Bullying posters. The image highlights awareness and understanding of digital footprints and social networking.
The UK Bullying Flash poster maker website allows students to create a poster, selecting from a range of backgrounds, creating characters and selecting from a range of anti-bullying / internet safety / digital citizenship messages. These can be published, shared and reviewed by peers.
Images can be shared using a range of Web2.0, social media options, sent via e-mail, bookmarked, embedded via source code or downloaded. (Some options are blocked/filtered in schools).
The images can be integrated into a range of learning activities by innovative teachers. This online tool could be useful in exploring the topic of digital citizenship.
One option includes use of mobile phones to capture/view/share using QR-Codes and the free Kaywa Reader. Once installed on a user's mobile phone, it can be used to quickly scan the image (hence the name Quick Response Code).
The QR-Code
Reader can be downloaded direct to your internet-connected mobile phone or to your computer. Taking a quick view of a QR-Code is a snap! This reveals the content behind the code.
Other learning activities can utilise the QR-Code Generator.
These can be generated using the computer and added or embedded in other media.
One teacher using QR-Codes in his classroom is Greg Kulowiec who has posted some interesting ideas on his blog.
Share your ideas on using QR-Codes, m-Learning, digital citizenship?
I opted to tweet my demo poster (image below) to join the others on Twitter Bullying posters. The image highlights awareness and understanding of digital footprints and social networking.
The UK Bullying Flash poster maker website allows students to create a poster, selecting from a range of backgrounds, creating characters and selecting from a range of anti-bullying / internet safety / digital citizenship messages. These can be published, shared and reviewed by peers.
Images can be shared using a range of Web2.0, social media options, sent via e-mail, bookmarked, embedded via source code or downloaded. (Some options are blocked/filtered in schools).
The images can be integrated into a range of learning activities by innovative teachers. This online tool could be useful in exploring the topic of digital citizenship.
One option includes use of mobile phones to capture/view/share using QR-Codes and the free Kaywa Reader. Once installed on a user's mobile phone, it can be used to quickly scan the image (hence the name Quick Response Code).
The QR-Code
Reader can be downloaded direct to your internet-connected mobile phone or to your computer. Taking a quick view of a QR-Code is a snap! This reveals the content behind the code.Other learning activities can utilise the QR-Code Generator.
These can be generated using the computer and added or embedded in other media.
One teacher using QR-Codes in his classroom is Greg Kulowiec who has posted some interesting ideas on his blog.
Share your ideas on using QR-Codes, m-Learning, digital citizenship?
Monday, December 28, 2009
iMoot online conference starts Feb 4 2010
Attention Moodlers...
The date for the iMoot global online conference (31 timezones, 210 countries) has been changed.
It will now start on February 4, 2010 instead of the previously advertised start date of January 7.
The date for the iMoot global online conference (31 timezones, 210 countries) has been changed.
It will now start on February 4, 2010 instead of the previously advertised start date of January 7.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
What's your Twitter account worth?
Checked out one more of the plethora of Twitter tools.
It's called, 'What's your Twitter account worth?'
Apparently its worth $112 and my rank is #18961 out of 102437)
I guess it's something to do with the fact that major search engines are now trawling the twitterverse and integrating relevant tweets into results to add that 'real-time' or near critical and much valued element to searches.
Or?
$112
It's called, 'What's your Twitter account worth?'
Apparently its worth $112 and my rank is #18961 out of 102437)
I guess it's something to do with the fact that major search engines are now trawling the twitterverse and integrating relevant tweets into results to add that 'real-time' or near critical and much valued element to searches.
Or?
$112
Created by WhatsMyTwitterAccountWorth.com
Another couple of interesting Twitter tools are the TPS or Tweet Positioning System which adds a spatial dimension to conversations and Snap Bird to help re-find the tweets that got away!Friday, December 18, 2009
Moodle Cool Course competition extended
The Moodle Cool Course competition has been extended into the new year.
The new closing date is 19 January 2010.
"The purpose of the Cool Course Competition is to encourage people to donate great Moodle demo courses for our Moodle demo site and to start building our demo community hub for Moodle 2.0."
(Helen Foster)
Check out the existing entries on the site.
The new closing date is 19 January 2010.
"The purpose of the Cool Course Competition is to encourage people to donate great Moodle demo courses for our Moodle demo site and to start building our demo community hub for Moodle 2.0."
(Helen Foster)
Check out the existing entries on the site.
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