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First speaker John Hedberg “New times, new tools, but has the emperor got clothes?” Knowledge Navigator predicitive video created by Steve Jobs 25 years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGYFEI6uLy0 What happens on the internet in a minutes Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/internet-minute-infographic.html John outlines a “process … Continue reading →

Posted below are various personal notes taken from this meeting. These notes reflect my interpretations of points that were interesting from my perspective, and in no way represent the entirety of the output of this meeting. Attendees: James Dalziel, Grainne … Continue reading →

Blending with purpose, to overcome the LMS limbo. Blended learning in the spaces between. Mark Brown – How do we address the issue of quality Blended learning can help to create a vibrant digital learning ecology. However it can also … Continue reading →

Hi. This took a little bit of time to work out so I thought I’d quickly share how you can present wirelessly using your ipad. Make sure your computer is attached to the Internet and then setup an ad-hoc wireless … Continue reading →

Introduction to AR – Rob Manson Milgram’s Reality – Virtual Worlds spectrum Azuma’s definition of AR in 1997 ARToolkit released in 1999 (C++ Libraries) Wikipedia’s 2002 definition has been superseded by 2011 definition (current) 2008 Wikitude released the first mobile … Continue reading →

Augmented Reality Technology Types of AR include: Marker based (a particular image causes multimedia resources to be layered across it) Object based (an object caused mutlimedia resources to be layered across it) Location based (geolocation on a mobile device causes … Continue reading →

This was sent through by Sage marketing, but it actually has some good ideas… 1. Wikipedia We recognise that many students are increasingly using Wikipedia as the starting point for their research. If there are pages that relate to themes, … Continue reading →

A/Professor Adam Brigman, Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Science University of Sydney Adopted a social media approach that sent all of their announcements via RSS to Twitter, Facebook, etc Reduced Absent Fails by about 40% by adopting … Continue reading →

Massive Open Online Courses are a response to the challenges faced by organisations and distributed disciplines, whereby thousands of people from around the world confluence in one unified learning experience (Cormier, 2010). MOOCs are based on principles stemming from Connectivist … Continue reading →

Some selected notes…. Neuman, W. L. (2006). Social Research Methods – Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (6th Edition). Boston: Pearson Education. p460: “Qualitative resaearchers form new concepts ore refine existing concepts that are grounded in the data.” p460: “A researcher organises … Continue reading →