EPICT conference future trends in learning
Mobile Learning and Online Communication
The normal caveat my view of what’s happening and its probably wrong. This is many way showcases excellent work that others are going to talk about
Plus if you want to keep up to date watch technology blogs my blog is www.andysblackhole.blogspot.com
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1Power
1.1
Switch IT off
1.1.1http://www.pcpro.co.uk/html/switch_it_off/
PC pro ran a campaign this year investigating the amountof cash wasted through PC's being left on overnight.
It was quite suprising,
if you leave a pc on overnight it will quickly consume 1kWh of energy, meaning you are needlessly spending more than £35 per year. And do not think that putting it into standby will help: we found one PC that consumed 78W in this mode, only reducing the wastage to about £25.
If your college has 100 pc's that's possibly £3500/year
AS well as saving cash, the scheme is approved by the carbon trust, as helping to reduce CO2 emmisions.
1.2Batteries
1.2.1 Battery powered printer
Flexibility in delivery and assessment.
The advent of online testing for keyskills, and various other assessments can make a difference. The city and guilds online testing facility allows the test to be downloaded and put on a laptop and carried out to the workplace taking the test to the user. A portable printer powered by Lion battery pack means provisional results can be given instantly.
1.2.2
Battery projection device
you don't believe me ???
1.2.3
Fuel Cells
Forget the miniature vodka shots you will be carrying alcohol to top up your laptop. Fuel cells are going to be appearring very soon . The much vaunted $100 laptop using wind up technology will have spin offs elsewhere .Intel are also talking of parrallel product educational $100 device
2Devices
2.1 Tablets
New software that is ink enabled turning up all the time Reg Microsoft one note, Agile Go binder, Blackboard backpack. see Becta tablet PC evaluation http://www.becta.org.uk/research/research.cfm?section=1&id=3357
Power toys from Microsoft for tablet:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/tabletpc.mspx
Trend
1) slate
2) laptop plus keyboard . The days of tablet being less powerful than laptop are long gone
2.2UMPC
UltraMobile PC 's heres two I made earlier
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1856508,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=20
Q1 by samsung with added USB Keyboard (theyre tablets to)
UMPC 650 by Remtech
2.3Handheld device
As with UMPC couple of places to stay in touch if you know the future let me know
Is it Portable Digital Assistnat PDA or Education Digital assistant EDA
or is it an phoneww.handheldlearning.co.uk
Join PDA in education jiscmail list
PDA-EDU@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
I have seen the future and its Apple !!
2.4Memory Sticks
wireless usb memory is coming
2.5Games machines
2.5.1PSP
2 million devices in the UK by Christmas 5 million by Easter !!
with WiFI ability to run flash and browser capability
2.5.2Nintendo DS
2.5.3WII
2.6MP3 Players
IPOD released 2001 by September 2007 110 million world wide !!
stuff seen Glasgow yesterday link here
2.7Wireless projectors
3Connectivity
3.1Wi FI
8011b
8011g
8011n
Spanish firm Fon could change the model very Wi Fi 2.0
3.23 G
It isn't cheap but neither is paying for one off wireless hotspots. In major centre works well and most provincial towns have coverage
3.3Wi Max
WiMax will cover most of the UK witih two to three year . Intel trialling with University. Several city wide trials of wimax and mesh wireless technology being talked off
3.4GSM Edge
See document: happy-birthday-gsm-network.html
3.5Bluetooth
Bluetooth 1 10Metres
Bluetooth 2 100metres
4social software
4.1Blogs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs
blogger
4.2Wiki
A shared resource of web page allowing multiple users to edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
PBwiki
Wiki spaces
4.3Subtopic
4.4RSS
RSS = Really Simple Syndication
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format) (20th May 2006)
Web feeds
a push technology linked with stuff like
you can read feeds in live book marks in Firefox, www.bloglines.com , RSS reader in Google.
my bloglines are public www.blogslines.com/public/ajb1962
4.5Podcasting
Downloads of MP3 was definitely the emerging technology in education of 2004/2005 Podcasting was the emerging technology of 2005/2006
4.5.1 St Johns Podcast
Downloads of MP3 was definitely the emerging technology in education of 2005 Podcasting is the emerging technology of 2006 . Saint Johns Ambulance have even done simple First Aid advice as podcasts http://www.sja.org.uk/firstaid/info/default.asp . Look out for More and The Ferl website at becta is going to be doing a trial podcast in the new year
4.6Photosharing
Flickr
my photo's
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysblackhole/
Picasa
http://picasaweb.google.com/home
4.7Face book
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook
the UK now has 5.2m Facebook users
4.8MySpace
MySpace has cracked the 10 million user mark in the UK, meaning more people have put a profile up than drink bitter, according to the social networking website.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,2122397,00.html
4.9Youtube/teachertube
See document: get_video.flv
5SMS phenomena
UK 4.5 billion text messages sent in March !!!
The majority of the now 2.5+ billion mobile subscribers are located in developing countries. This is a stunning new kind of event for our planet: the dominance of leading edge technology is emerging from marginalises places. That has not happened before, particularly on the enormous scale of the mobiles.
Pupils at a school in Buckinghamshire have been getting extra help with GCSE revision by texting their teachers. Far from banning mobile phones, Cottesloe School in Wing has decided to turn modern technology to its advantage in an attempt to improve results. Since Easter, Year 11 pupils have been able to message teachers from home with revision queries and get a text answer. The school said “text mentoring” had also seen teachers messaging pupils with revision prompts and exam tips.
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