Macintosh workshop
April 22nd, 2009
The Mac workshop I attended today was most informative and covered the following Mac apps:
iTunes: can also be used as a content manager for PDFs as well as audio (but not all file types).
iPhoto: Using faces and places in iPhoto users can identify people using facial recognition and Google maps to identify locations for the [...]
ICT Lecture by Dean Groom yesterday
March 26th, 2009
Yesterday Dean Groom gave an interesting lecture to Macquarie University’s EDUC261 - ICT and Education students. Apparently there are over 200 3D immersive virtual worlds with over 2 million people in each. This includes RPGs (Role Play Games) and MMOs (Massive Multiplayer Online). He presented an update of Bloom’s technology with the sorts of Web2.0 [...]
Professor Piet Kommers - a great deal of valuable work
March 9th, 2009
Professor Piet Kommers has done a great deal of work in the area of technology based learning. His wesite can be found at
http://users.edte.utwente.nl/kommers/