Architect Steven Holls Combines Geeky Aesthetic, Environmental Elements: "Architect Steven Holls Combines Geeky Aesthetic, Environmental Elements"
This is really interesting design rather than just functional building really interesting. Can we have a few schools colleges like this please.
Thanks to Adrian Higginbotham for this comment
The london free hotspots thing is good - now it just needs GPS refrences so we can use handheld GPS such as the opensource LoadStone GPS www.loadstone-gps.com to navigate to the nearest free hotspot. Thanks for the load stone link looks well worth a look.
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Well this was my first post on the 18th may 2005
http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2005/05/professor-david-morrison-at-bath.html
This is my latest
http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/05/mesh-technology-to-geeky-for-some-but.html
Theres been 338 posts in total when I've got some more time I will do a more fitting analysis of my blogging behaviour
I have been following mesh technology for providing coverage connectivity for a while. The one laptop per child project has pushed it a long way with the help of the gods of mesh at MIT view this highly technical pdf poster on one of there trials http://web.media.mit.edu/~ypod/DL_May07.pdf
Plus the link to to the orielly site on emerging telephony http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2007/05/mits_olpc_pushes_bounds_of_mes.html
Better stop pretending I am not a geek .
Came across this another one for stumble upon. Its by Core-Ed formerly known as Future Lab New Zealand great presentation and worth a look shame quality on slide share wasn't better . Where ever you are worth contrasting with your own countries approach to e-learning . It is 6 months old but worth a look.
already blogged the call for papers fro section on Emerging Mobile Learning Environments for Industries and Pedagogies read at http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/search?q=International+Journal+
The call for papers is on two subject areas full details and links below.
"Information and Service Personalization for Mobile Learning"
"Mobile Learning and Knowledge Management: Issues in Intellectual Proximity"
see below:
But they've added another call papers on http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=616
details
"Information and Service Personalization for Mobile Learning"
Guest Editors: Assoc. Prof. Fuhua (Oscar) Lin and Prof. Kinshuk and Prof. Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada
Aims and Objectives Mobile learning, or m-learning, has seen exponential growth in recent years, and increasing availability of high bandwidth network infrastructures, advances in wireless technologies and popularity of handheld devices have opened up new accessibility opportunities for education. While the opportunities that m-learning presents us with are new, the challenges have been around for quite some time - smaller screen sizes, limited processing power, and reduced input capabilities are just few of the issues that still hinder the effective learning process. These challenges mean that adapting existing e-learning services and content to m-learning is not a trivial task. This special issue deals with the techniques and pedagogies for personalized, adaptive and intelligent m-learning, and aims to include issues that cross the boundaries of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and information systems to bring solutions in m-learning context. This collection will serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions and set future directions in information and service personalization for mobile learning.
Information and service personalization research has potential to find solutions to various problems in effective m-learning, and it is timely to ask questions which include but are not limited to:
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page
Important Dates
Full paper deadline: 5 June, 2007
Notification of acceptance and review results : 20 July, 2007
Revised submission deadline: 1 September, 2007
Feedback on revised submissions: 25 September, 2007
Camera-ready version deadline: 30 October, 2007
"Mobile Learning and Knowledge Management: Issues in Intellectual Proximity"Guest Editors: Prof. Mounir Kehal, Prof. Maxime Crener, Prof. David Ansiau, International University of Monaco, Principality of Monaco
Aims and Objectives Enterprises have turned to explicit - and even conceptualising on tacit - knowledge management to elaborate a systematic approach to develop and sustain the intellectual capital needed to succeed, the knowledge normally attributed to knowledge workers. This is complemented by structural capital, i.e. the structures, technologies, practices put in place by an organisation as an attempt to manage their specialist knowledge. Mobile learning would equally come under such an umbrella, enticing knowledge workers and managers within organisations to conduct work in a mobile manner. One of the challenges for future mobile organisations will deal with how they can enhance communication channels and collaborate within and between their employees, customers and stakeholders. According to Liebowitz (Liebowitz, 2006), one technique that can help address this issue is social network analysis. Mobile organisations also need to develop new knowledge and learning strategies possibly under the umbrella of a knowledge exchange or sharing system, and especially as related to recognition and reward systems. Uden (Uden, 2006) suggests that activity theory, as a social and cultural psychological theory, can be used to design a mobile learning environment. Existing theoretical work has paid limited attention to the role of intellectual proximity in facilitating knowledge exchange within clusters of organisations that operate within the same domain of knowledge. A consensus suggests that users build a mental model from their interactions with artificial systems. Design of mobile devices needs tp to take into consideration the existence of a gap between the user’s viewpoint [interaction-oriented] and the designer’s viewpoint [development-oriented]. Enhancing mobile learning effectiveness requires narrowing this gap between execution and conception. Implementing new solutions for improving the effective use of mobile systems needs new methodological tools and a better understanding of the complexity of user’s mental construction, in line with their containment of the domain knowledge. The purpose of this special issue is to expose writers and the eventual readership to topics aiming at the facilitation of mobile learning for knowledge workers, from differing and multidisciplinary perspectives.
This special issue aims at presenting a selection of papers addressing the topics indicated below, but is not limited to them:
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page
Important Dates
Full paper deadline: 1 September, 2007
Notification of acceptance and review results: 1 November, 2007
Camera-ready version deadline: 6 January, 2008
Regular readers will know I have been using clustrmaps to track number of visitors a day and where they are from. You can see clustrmaps graphic in my sidebar. I also want to tell readers that for the last week or so I have started using google analytics to track visits in a more detailed way.
Well after a false start a month ago ( poor insertion of code on my part) I got it working earlier this week and its great. Just yesterday the upgraded http://analytics.blogspot.com/
so if your interested in checking traffic , type of devices etc check it out.
Well I use both Skype and Google talk they are both good ;-).
If this article is to believed google are lining up google talk to have video added to it just like Skype has had for 18 months ( I think its that long!).
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,131048-c,webtelephonyconferencing/article.html
Interesting times
With the recent launch of I-google a brand new name for the personalised search pages and todays overhaul of the famously spartan functional and clean google search allowing searching across video blogs the web etc. The big news is that these choices are via a DROP DOWN
amazing. The interesting bit is the comparison with Amazons A9 search personalisation technology.
The googlezon prediction of the epic video in earlier post http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/03/epic-2014-now-2015-is-out-compare.html
Got thank my fellow M learning protagonist Elizabeth.Hartnell-young Of Nottingham University for making me aware of this. I prsented at Mlearn2006 in Banff Alberta and it was great Melbourne should be even better. I cant go unless one of you blog readers fancies giving me a free flight ;-))
We are rapidly approaching the early bird deadline for this year's mLearn conference in Melbourne 16-19 October. www.mlearn2007.org Please pass on to your networks!
One for your diary
Wednesday 13th June, 2007,10.00am-4.00pm.
Interoperability of ICT in Education -
- Will it serve the needs of National Initiatives?
Never before has there been such a strong need for ICT systems in education to inter-operate. A number of very significant national initiatives in the UK depend critically on interoperability. The conference will discuss whether development of interoperability is on track to make these initiatives a success or whether further action is needed. The initiatives potentially at risk include:
- Implementation of learning platforms.
- The Building Schools for the Future programme.
- Personalisation of learning.
- The 14-19 Diplomas.
To reserve a place at the meeting and for full details, please go to www.eep-edu.org or email Sarah Ewing, E.E.P. Administrator, Sarah@eep-edu.org.
The E.E.P. is assembling a range of speakers drawn from industry, education and national/regional agencies, to provide a view of the current state of play with regard to development of interoperability. This will be followed by open discussion to identify where action is satisfactory and where it needs to speed up or be started.
The topics to be covered are:
- Work on UK SIF (Schools Interoperability Framework) and MIAP (Moving Information Across Partners) and how these will impact on interoperability of school/college MIS and VLE (learning platform) systems, and the MLE systems envisaged for BSF.
- Interoperability of content with school/college learning platforms and end-user devices, including issues relating to the use of handheld devices, interactive whiteboards, social networking sites and new devices that are being developed.
- Developments to enable single-sign-on to federated systems and diverse sources of content, such as Shibboleth, and inter-operation of the networks that will be required to enable the 14-19 Diplomas to be offered nationwide with equality of provision.
- Best practice standards for management of school/college networks to achieve a balance between child safety and network security, while permitting access to the range of content, software and social networking sites that educators need in order to be able to help young people learn effectively and develop safe online practices.
Having a great fondness to India and speaking a little bit of Hindi but no literacy in reading it this was of interest from http://www.thinkdigit.com/thinkdigit_2007/index.php?action=article&prodid=656
Certainly not a niche market India being one of the largest and fastest growing economies in the world.
Harking back to a killer remark made by Geoff Stead of CTAD Tribal of being device agnostic I have been reflecting on this. While on a run from Battersea in London to St Pauls along the Thames late last night gave me time to think. Passing tourists taking photo's with Phones small large cameras, runners listening to Ipods and other MP3 and people talking texting on mobiles I thought why should education be any different.
The Lord of the rings type quest for "one device to rule them all" of some mobile learning protaganists I personally feel is misplaced. If you are looking a mobile its got to be on premise that Mike Sharples of Nottingham University puts forward idea of Mobile learners not Mobile Learning
So its a combination of devices that will emerge phones,tablets smart phones MP3/MP4 players and even content on conventional PC's and importantly portable storage devices.
Its strikes me connectivity and remote and local hosting of content and technologies such as good old SMS and RSS will all have a role to play devices are a issue but if you wait for the killer device we will keep waiting and waiting and waiting !!!
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Is this kind of stuff useful I run and bike and can sort of see the appeal. I think the old style 1990's frontpage might be making me feel all nostalgic
http://www.htl-wireless.com/
Definitely an Antipodean flavour to postings this evening great posting from the online teacher network
http://onlineteachernetwork.edublogs.org/2007/05/11/m-learning-content-practices-and-emerging-standards/
following the link through the supporting website
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/background/mlearn_bckgrnd.htm
The standards make an interesting read.
http://e-standards.flexiblelearning.net.au/docs/m-standards-guide-v1-0.pdf
what are we doing in northern hemisphere the m-internet (truly mobile internet) is coming if not all ready here !!
Huge heads up to Selena and her great blog http://mportfolios.blogspot.com/
for helping me spot past this event which had 30 people attend dont snigger. When handheld learning 2005 was put together in the UK Graham Brown Martin of www.handheldlearning.co.uk planned a event for 30 odd people and got two hundred for handheld learning a year later he got 600 plus .
So it will grow and great presentations archive can be viewed http://molta.massey.ac.nz/massey/depart/sciences/conferences/molta/molta-presentations.cfm
and Selena's blog posting of event here
so good luck to them for further conference maybe podcasting the prsentations etc next time.
Based in Utrecht in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom
see teaser preview of Elliot Massie keynote
http://www.youmoveme.com/speakers/elliottmasie.asp
main conference website
http://www.youmoveme.com/
Now what an interesting name for a conference one for all you tablet and PDA handheld device fans
subtitled
Enabling advanced graphical, multimodal, and mobile learning interactions
Handheld technology and pen-based input devices (e.g.,Tablet PC, PDA, Origami-UMPC, digital pen and paper, graphic tablets, pen-mouse) provide novel opportunities to develop:
1) more natural interaction and collaboration
2) multimodal, multi-party feedback and communication
3) mobile learning.
conference site link at http://plt2007.ing.unict.it/HTML/pag00.htm
More M becoming mainstream Are we mobile Mavericks becoming mobile mainstream !!!
Councils Mobilise For Future Challenges
by Derek Parkinson.
For the first time, a comprehensive study has been made of the growing use of mobile technologies in local authorities across the UK, looking at the types of product in use, the service areas where they are deployed, and how they help to deliver policy objectives. It is based on responses from more than 1,200 staff from 392 local authorities in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, 83.8 per cent of the total.
register for regular bulletin to get more detail at http://www.headstar.com/egb/
A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users
Interesting report on mobility and technology headlines US figures of course !
In the wild at channel 4 today with what seems like a who's who of interesting people in the social networking world in the UK !!Event doesnt start till 9.30 but already picked up interesting stuff from the related virtual conference looking forward to it. Promise to blog !!!
see the excellent programme here
I give up just reads Ewan Mcintosh's blog posting out blogged by Scotland best blogger !!! read ewans blog here
The headliners include.
Stephen Crowne of Becta doing the Keynote followed by visionary and digital native ? Marc Prensky
details at
http://www.handheldlearning2007.com/pages/home.php
If your serious about M-learning you've got to be there.
Flyer can be downloaded at http://www.handheldlearning2007.com/docs/hhl2007.pdf
This time in the Special Issue of Educational Technology Magazine on Mobile Computing
http://ubiquitousthoughts.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/special-issue-of-educational-technology-magazine-on-mobile-computing/
Thanks to Mark van 't Hooft of RCET at Kent state University . Looking around to find someone who taking the journal abstract looks good though. The contents list is enough to wet your appetite,.
Educational Technology Magazine, vol. 47, no. 3
CONTENTS
Special Issue on Highly Mobile Computing
Introduction to Special Issue
Mark van ‘t Hooft and Philip Vahey (link to article)
Educational Technology for the Mainstream: A call for Designing for Simplicity and Reliability
Cathleen Norris, Namsoo Shin, & Elliot Soloway
Highly Mobile Devices, Pedagogical Possibilities, and How Teaching Needs to Be Reconceptualized to Realize Them
Karen Swan, Annette Kratcoski, & Mark van ‘t Hooft (link to article)
Using Handhelds to Link Private Cognition and Public Interaction
Philip Vahey, Jeremy Roschelle, & Deborah Tatar
Teacher Uses of Highly Mobile Technologies: Probes and Podcasts
Robert Tinker, Paul Horwitz, Stephen Bannasch, Carolyn Staudt, & Tony Vincent
Classroom Connectivity: Increasing Participation and Understanding Inside the Classroom
Stephen Hegedus
What Happens to “Writing Across the Curriculum” with Handheld Devices?
Louise Yarnall, Sara Carriere, Tina Stanford, Carmen Manning, & Bob Melton
Can Handhelds Make a Difference? Lessons Learned from Large and Small Scale Implementations
Christine Tomasino, Kellie Doubek, &Meg Ormiston
Learning Bridges: A Role for Mobile Technologies in Education
Giasemi Vavoula, Mike Sharples, Peter Lonsdale, Paul Rudman, & Julia Meek
In and Beyond the Classroom: Making Informal Learning Truly Ubiquitous with Highly Mobile Devices
Yimei Lin
Handheld Computers in Education: An Industry Perspective
Mark van ’t Hooft and Philip Vahey (link to article)
Blurring Lines with Mobile Learning Games
Eric Klopfer
Creating a Powerful Learning Environment with Networked Mobile Learning Devices
Valerie M. Crawford
Education’s Intertwingled Future
Judy Breck
From TG Daily
We just started to like the concept of the UMPC. But the truth of the matter is that the UMPC, at least in the shape we saw these little computers over the past year, will join the Tablet PC in a niche, far away from the eyes of the mass market. The UMPC will disappear from our radar as quickly as it surfaced.
Excuse the poor image. Got up really early this morning and down the local pool for 40 minutes while churning out the lengths alternating crawl and breaststroke had a really nice social experience with technological angle. A blind swimmer was swimming with his sighted friend. what I was really impressed by was this waterproof tally counter that the sighted swimmer was pressing to record every time they did two laps . Wonderful and simple technology for all those that lose count of the number of length while swimming. Is it a Mobile tool me thinks it is !! Yoursd £11.00 on ebay 
Well with finally joining technorati and setting up a watch list I know have all three. I am intrigued over next few months to see what the three methods of following RSS feeds ( I think thats what they do") turn up will keep you posted. Using mlearning and mobile learning in google alerts and technorati . Ewan Mcintosh raved about watch lists on Tuesday in London
more info technorati watch lists at link
Google alerts sign up here
A post especially for Jo Colley of Tribal CTAD who along with being a fellow Mlearning advocate is a keen poet. Jo and I presented at Mlearn2006 in Canada and after I returned home Jo on a trip in the rockie shot some stunning video footage with her mobile phone of a bear outside the car in the snow. This she tells me inspired her to write poetry about the incident.
This post on free poetry resources for handheld device. Three other things caught my attention:
A very early morning to you. Yesterday quickly enroute to work went to a Talk Tuesday event organised by Redhouse Lane by Ewan Mcintosh of Learning and Teaching Scotland only for 1 hour but great all the same. Ewans influential education blog is in my side links. The link to his posting form the days event is here
Great stuff Ewan for lots of things refocussing my thinking in the following respects:
The main heavyweight ones are:
I attended this event a week and of course blogged it at http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/04/enhancing-learning-virtual-worlds.html
The presentations form the event are now all live and an and full audio to go with them with be avaialable from the 11th May. For now presentations can be found at www.becta.org.uk/enhancinglearningseminar
Thanks to Lisa Valentine from JISC Regional Support centre in the North West. She thought it was great and a really easy and clear way of describing what an RSS feed is. .http://www.leelefever.com/archives/001398.html.
thanks Lisa got to agree really nice resource.
i2010 is the European Commission's strategic policy framework laying out broad policy guidelines for the information society and the media in the years up to 2010. It promotes an open and competitive digital economy, research into information and communication technologies, as well as their application to improve social inclusion, public services and quality of life. Main i2010 site is here
This years annual reports are out and comes out with this interesting statement
ICT drives 50% of EU growth, says Commission's annual report on the digital economy
Public and private investment in information and communication technology (ICT) is bearing fruit, finds the Commission's annual progress report on i2010 – the digitally-led strategy for growth and jobs. Technology is fuelling innovation and productivity, and there are signs of fundamental change in markets and user behaviour, as Europe moves towards a knowledge-based economy.
read more and get country by country reports Here
Shocked as we all were by Virginia Tech shooting read this interesting post from Creative Development Team at Sheffield Hallam
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/wordpress/?p=355
I also have an interest in SMS in disaster recovery linked to personal experience around 7/7 bombings in London . 160 characters in txt message isn't a lot of words but they can count for a lot when you need to get through to people and conventional phone network is down .
I attended sms in education conference a few weeks ago. Look at link to conference on sms texting in education http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2007/04/talking-about-text-their-raving-about.html
plus the neat video. Also ability to create rss feeds from a website blog posting increase chance of getting your message out. www.txttools.co.uk one of there customers Yorkshire coast college has done a really good podcast about it http://podcast.ycoastco.ac.uk/weblog/admin/2007/04/26/PodcastingandSMSmp3.html
Thanks to Gerry Cordon of Liverpool community college for pointing this out
http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2007/introducing-the-book-p1.php
This might amuse people who struggle introducing new technology to people. Those books will never catch on.
ALT is pleased to announce that this year we will be running, for the first time, a Learning Technologist of the Year Award.
The Chair of the judging panel is Professor Gilly Salmon.
Full details of the Award, including criteria, application process, prizes etc, will be published by mid May. In the meantime please note the following, and also draw this announcement to the attention of relevant colleagues.
The closing date and time for applications will be 09.00 GMT on Monday June 18th.
Answers to any questions raised about the Award will be published on the ALT web site during week beginning May 21st.
The judging panel will meet on June 27th.
We expect to interview shortlisted candidates on July 19th or July 20th.
The Award will be made at the 2007 ALT Conference Dinner in Nottingham on September 5th.
I will blog details as they appear or watch the ALT website www.alt.ac.uk
Ewan McIntosh
Educational Technologist
Learning and Teaching Scotland FuturesThis
year, 16-year-olds who know little about life before the Internet and
email will enter the workforce. Ewan McIntosh is an experienced teacher
and a recognised authority on new media and technology in the
classroom. He’ll lead a session on how understanding the interests of
IT-savvy teenagers will be critical if businesses and the government
are to get the best out of the next generation of worker.
excellent piece by Educause upping the mlearning anti in 2007 the year M goes mainstream interesting author to Ellen De Wagner of Macromedia. You might disagree with some of the content mobile learning v learning goes mobile but leave your views at home till you've read the whole article.
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | May/June 2005, Volume 40, Number 3
Cumulative number of weblogs - Technorati
Spam
Growth
Blogs vs. MSM
The multi-lingual web
Tags Stats
E-learning is fast becoming just another
way of delivering learning and every year there are more and more ways
and opportunities to deliver learning some using technology and some
that don’t.Learn how to use mobile and distance
learning to the maximum effect for your organisation and how to put
your learners first, both now and in the future.
Interesting programme with not the usual hard core mlearning evangelists/pathfinders I ally myself with but great to see another event spreading the message. Programme link below
http://www.elearningage.co.uk/prog17.htm
Ok its not the m-crowd but the plenty of room for new people currents pretty strong in the mainstream.
I was lucky enough to meet Mary Lou Jepsen at Mlearn2006 in Alberta I sat down next to her at breakfast !!!Mary is a leading part of the one laptop per child project team .It has the weirdest homepage but its the initiative that everybody has talked about knocked praised and it really is beginning to happen. http://www.laptop.org/index.shtml
they're is some really long but good video on the project at http://1laptop1student.blogspot.com/2007/04/olpc-tech-talk-w-google.html
some really interesting results of trialling in Nigeria
And from karlfich blog
a great quote for those that said they would'nt do it
Oh, and they're hoping to ship 10 million of them this year, 50-100 million next year.
Move over XBOX 360 as biggest product roll out in history
Plus my own thought mesh technology is the future !!!
Need I say more but bring it on google !! read about on googles own blog !!!
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/were-expecting.html
This is likely to be a great event.
Supported by my friends at DirectLearn who are rapidly becoming the online conference organisers in the UK.
This is to let you know about the Jisc 2007 online conference, following last year's successful conference. This year, the topic is Innovating e-Learning 2007 - Institutional Transformation and Supporting Lifelong Learning, 11 - 14 June 2007
The conference focuses on the potential of e-learning in transforming practice within institutions and in supporting lifelong learning. The keynote presenters will offer a rich variety of perspectives on these themes:
Theme 1: Institutional transformation Day 1: Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Day 2: Dr John Guy, Principal, and Dr Mike Docker, Director, ICLT, the Sixth Form College, Farnborough
Theme 2: Supporting Lifelong Learning, introduced by Robin Mason, Professor of Educational Technology at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University
The concluding presentation will be given by Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning and Director of the Research Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), University of Bolton.
As well as these keynote presenters, there is a very large number of other sessions and presentations, making up what we hope is an exciting and useful programme. The full programme (and booking
information) can be seen at:
www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference07
As last year, the conference will be open for a week for pre-conference reading, from the 4th June. The conference itself will run from 11-14 June and will then remain open for viewing for a full month, until 15 July.
Thanks to Bob Harrison for drawing this community to my attention ages back and finally got round to blogging it . It seems with a lot of the debate on virtual communities (second life etc) and the role this may play in augmenting enriching peoples lives this particular community seems to have been round a while . The front page blog is really interesting reading . Brigadoon specific community is those with Aspergers syndrome .
Brigadoon
more detail on the background to the community can be found at http://braintalk.blogs.com/brigadoon/2005/01/about_brigadoon.html
This looks really useful for those of your working with wireless !!
UKERNA launched the Wireless Technology Advisory Service (WTAS) at Networkshop on 4/05/07. This service provides free advice and guidance to organisations on all aspects of wireless technologies. A wide range of information is published on this web site, including technology guides, and case studies
For a number of years JANET-connected organisations have been deploying wireless LANs (WLANs) alongside the wired networking infrastructure within their campuses. The rate of growth in the deployment of WLANs within the teaching and learning environment is accelerating, in parallel with the demand-driven proliferation of fixed and mobile wireless technologies and standards.
Thanks to Ivan for posting this as comment to earlier blog posting impressed Ivan very neat !!!
RSS 2 to PDF free ATOM feeds conversion converts RSS2PDF: "Flexta takes a fresh approach to information publishing with RSS2.
In simple terms, RSS2 can convert multiple RSS and ATOM feeds into a single, consolidated PDF file without the need for expensive software, computer programming, or complicated RSS readers."
American Society for Training & Development online magazine http://www.learningcircuits.org/ is doing a survey on mobile learning . m learning moving up the agenda again do the survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?U=475073462983
2007 the year mlearning goes mainstream ??
This is so cool works to produce a visual mapping of a search its a little like aquabrowser which I have blogged before works interestingly for google and amazon data.
TouchGraph | HomePublish
MidnightSun Assistive Technology Conference#
Anchorage in Alaska great location and timing for conference and content seems interesting anyone going and got space in the suitcase ??
Huge heads up the blog from read write web team for this .
if your serious about mobile a list to check out not all maybe your cup of tea, latte or cappuccino but worth a look. excuse poor tagging on this but tagging could take longer than the post !!!
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/85_piece_mobile_search_tool_kit.php
I first blogged this back in November 2005 ( have I really been blogging that long!) http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com/2005/11/blogs-into-pdf.html its had some nice features added since then including support for flickr photo stream http://rss2pdf.com/flickr/
The original RSS to PDF tool can be found at http://rss2pdf.com/index.php
great tool i think I will add it to my sidebar links in coming weeks.
This is a lovely use of mobile gps technology with a serious aim sea turtle conservation.
http://www.greatturtlerace.com/ .
Select your turtle and watch the race . The site shows educational use of gps and the the world wide web.
Channel 4 Education special conference … In the Wild Well being, the Web and the future of Education 10 May 2007 London
We would be delighted if you can join us. This unique event will bring over 200 young people, educators, policy makers and representatives of the broadcast and digital media worlds together to explore some of the most important challenges facing young people as they are growing up today and some of ideas that are shaping the future of output of Channel 4 Education. We have arranged a great roster of speakers including
* Richard Reeves, Nick Baylis and Kathy Evans on well being
* James Bradburne, Pat Kane and Penelope Tobin on informal learning
* Bronwyn Kunhardt, Rachel O’Connell and Ewan McIntosh on living online
* Matthew Taylor, Mike Gibbons and Anna Craft on next practice in schools
There will also be an opportunities to participate in an ‘open space’ session where you as our guest can take control of the agenda and lots of chances to meet Channel 4 executives and hear about the plans for the future of Channel 4 Education on screen and online.
register here
Came across two great blogs while looking at Ewan Mcintosh's blog http://edu.blogs.com
are the kids at room 9 central nelson school !!! Check the classes first ever podcast how cool is that http://room9nelsoncentral.blogspot.com/Well go on regular readers of Andysblackhole go and listen to the podcast and post a comment.
Another excellent report from Demos its open paragraph on the web is interesting
Competition and choice have become the watchwords of public service reform over the past decade. But while these principles have delivered some important gains, they are not enough in isolation. Tight accountability and choice have often come at the expense of fragmenting the way that schools, hospitals and councils provide their services. Service improvement has come at the expense of the capacity to solve local people’s problems.
Seriously good article about M-services for development. Upasna Kakroo has written a really great article. raise interesting points through out the article especially around bridging the divide why mobile . Notably she targets three areas for discussion.
Mobile learning and mobile Internet explored at Seriously Mobile Summit 20 April
SERIOUSLY EVENT AT A COST BUT SPEAKERS AND PROGRAMME LOOKS INTERESTING
"Mobile internet, working in real time and supporting mobile workforce capability is the theme for this year's summit. We have assembled several of the world's top mobile learning experts to lead the event, including speakers from Ericsson, Giunti Labs and Reuters, three organizations that are leading the way in mobile learning and mobile Internet technology" said Ron Edwards, organizer of the Seriously Mobile Summit and one of its keynote presenters.
2007 Theme: The Mobile Internet: Working in Real Time
Supporting Mobile Workforce Capability
“Creativity is no longer about which companies have the most visionary executives, but which have the most compelling architecture of participation. That is, which companies make it easy, interesting and rewarding for a wide range of contributors to offer ideas, solve problems and improve products” - Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media
We will explore:
I was lucky enough to be in Southwold in Suffolk on its stunning beach yesterday and noted a long standing restaurant the Dutch barn on the beach road has become Casa Mia it does look really nice . I was taken by this part of the chalked sign. Now is being able to pick up email and access the web a joy or a burden. I was made to think of an earlier article in the guardian about a map of tranquillity nothing to do with technology do we need now to think of maps of non broadband non 3g tranquillity to here is a link to original guardian article
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,,1928957,00.html.
What I think is nicer is the boys playing behind the sign see above or ten minutes earlier dads feet had been buried in sand by the mischevious duo.
Well worth a browse. I advice you look at both school specific and non school power point and look at the data as I said in Leeds a week today the world has changed and is changing further.
the employment trends and links with Englands decline in power in the early early mid twentieth century is interesting.
BTW
If you havent read Tom Standage's Victorian internet you should . http://www.tomstandage.com/vicnet.html
e-skills UK has today published the IT Professional Competency Model - a new, sector-wide approach to expressing IT professional capabilities. This simple and flexible model represents a breakthrough in helping employers, educators and others to communicate using a common language and framework for skills, knowledge and experience.
The IT Professional Competency Model builds on the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA), allocating the competencies IT professionals have – in other words, what they can actually do – into a simple suite of subject-based 'disciplines' and levels. The model also includes transferable skills, such as business and personal skills, which apply to all disciplines. It is based on extensive consultation with employers of IT professionals in all areas of the economy.
This part of the site is intended to be a store of useful resources for researchers and students in Mobile Learning. It will grow as additional resources are contributed by members of the SIG.
This call for papers for special journal edition makes me think my prediction that m learning is going mainstream is correct
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=650
Call for papers: Emerging Mobile Learning Environments for Industries and Pedagogies
A special issue of International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation
Mobile learning (m-learning) is the acquisition of knowledge and skills by using mobile technologies anywhere and anytime. M-learning covers a wide range of possible domains by the convergence of emerging mobile technologies such as wireless communication infrastructure and mobile devices, and mobile applications such as online learning tools and mobile connectivity.
The subject coverage of this special issue includes, but is not limited to:
Threshers the shop are doing an amazing promotion via the blogosphere a 40% off voucher(shhhhh dont tell every one) you just print off and take into a shop. see the effect on hows threshers appears in blogs and download the voucher .
link here
web2.0 viral marketing it will never catch on. Drink sensibly of course
Hughs blogs worth a look to http://www.gapingvoid.com/
this maybe of interest I include a summary of contents below so if your interested go and download it. Also subscribe the excellent technews while your there.
This bulletin is also available to download from the Becta website http://www.becta.org.uk/industry/newsletters
In this edition:
1. News headlines
*Funding guidance for schools and local authorities 2007 - 8
*Making accessible software: rising to the challenge
2. Focus on... forums and discussion groups (part 1 of 2)
3. Education updates
3.1 Schools
*Secondary curriculum review
*Younger pupils to learn foreign languages
*Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework
*Report on the impact of ICT in Europe
*QCA's new teacher assessment activities
*QCA research: role play in primary learning
3.2 Post-16 and 14-19
*JISC e-assessment report
*Web 2.0 - TechWatch report
*Assessment 2.0
3.3 SEN and inclusion
*TechDis launches HEAT2 funding programme
4. Technical news
*March TechNews out now
*Becta Thin Client report
*New Linux standards group
*Tool for converting MS Office documents to ODF
*Intel playground-proof laptop
5. General news
*Emerging technologies for learning, Volume 2
*QCA research into learner motivation
*National Year of Reading announced for 2008
*DfES funding to boost after-school science clubs
*Becta's current research
*'Made IT Happen' competition
6. Events
*Enhancing learning; virtual worlds, simulations and game based learning seminar
*e-Access '07
*Education 2007 - Excellence for all
*ALT-C: Beyond control
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Buses equipped with wi-fi are being used to deliver web content to remote rural villages in the developing world.
In rural India and parts of Rwanda, Cambodia andParaguay, the vehicles offer web content to computers with no internet
read BBC story at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506193.stm
Times of india story relating the indian sub continent angle at
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1221225.cms
seems to be really good for information on all types of messaging .
It seems to be part of the mobile data association
www.themda.org .
Off both these sites I found a great quiz for wising up on issues related to messaging www.phonebrain.org
Helena from NZ who I was lucky enough to meet at Mlearn2006 in Banff . Has just come up with a great blog piece and phrase outlining the need for "good technology stewards’ to help bring relevant technology into areas like industry training" .
Helena has done some great work with simple tools in areas of vocational training like bakeries . I used her example of camera phones for recording evidence of bakery learners on Monday at the lets talk about txt event I keynoted at . link to event posting here
read here post its great http://mportfolios.blogspot.com/2007/03/keynote-presentation-at-industry.html
I have also added her to my blogroll a select bunch of influential blogs in the left hand panel of this blog.
Hi all
Just a little request if anybody has any links or names of people doing research in Mlearning and skills for life post a comment if you can help
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Thanks to Lisa Valentine of RSC Northwest for this great site shows the world distorted or should I say scaled according to gdp food aid etc very cool thanks Lisa
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
VideoDownloader Firefox Extension ! (29-4-06)
this amazingly allows you down load streamed video on youtube etc and play it locally through a flash player .
so if youtube googlevideo is banned at your institution you can download it at home a play it offline at work neat eh !!
Thanks to Geoff Stead for bringing this to my attention no time to look at the moment but might be useful resource . Be really interested in any body from the deaf communities thoughts and evaluation of the product.
Smart Mobs: Sign language for your cellphone
BBC NEWS | Technology | In search of the neo-nomad
well great article BBC but I would like to point out that I used the term term Digital Nomad at ALT-C 2005 at Exeter University in a discussion around digital natives and described new form of worker learning technologist. I actually used the Phrase yesterday to Steve Sidaway of TXTtools
can I claim IPR ???? ;-) nice article .
Are you a digital nomad !!
