Want to learn/experience spoken French look at Madame Thomas youtube channel

For those of a MFL frame of mind or just interested in use of YouTube for education. This teacher has over 400 films made by herself or her students .

http://www.youtube.com/user/MadameThomas

Little Brother's iPhone is watching you

interesting take on things . institution owned devices but with a twist Japanese example from  Aoyama Gakuin University, located just outside Tokyo.

http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=45018&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10#

Stanford University's iPhone development course free online

I thought this might be of interest to who are interested in learning to develop for the iPhone, particularly those non-corporate folks (e.g. students etc) who are on lower budgets.

Stanford University have just started a new taught iPhone development class
this semester and are putting it all up on iTunesU for free (at the same speed
as the course is taught), and some of the material is available on the
ordinary website.

More details here: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/index.php

Hopefully this will prove to be a quality addition to Apple's developer
materials. An iPhone/iPod Touch is not essential for the course by the way.

Also, if you're looking at getting into iPhone development and don't have the
budget for the Mac hardware, this page has links to several tutorials enabling
OSX on PC hardware:
http://www.modmyi.com/forums/iphone-ipod-touch-sdk-development-discussion/194881-official-iphone-sdk-windows-2.html
Obviously you'll need a legitimate copy of OSX too 

cut and paste for ipod touch and Iphone

its a bit of work round but its a start . will install it later and let you know how it goes.

http://pastebud.com/

Official Google Blog: Introducing Google Earth for iPhone

Credit to Ollie Bray http://olliebray.typepad.com/ for putting this out via twitter. It's works on
the touch to.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/introducing-google-earth-for-iphone.HTML

Great news if your interested in using the tool for:

• geography
• ecology/biology
• outdoor pursuits
  

screen shots from a iphone Ipod touch

Simple trick hold down home button and quickly depress the power button and it neatly takes a screen shot of the screen and puts it into photo. A short post but a neat one .

John Daviit the Iphone and Baking what an eclectic post

Having seen John Davitt http://newtools.org
demonstrate how he has scanned six years of passport sized note books on to his Iphone earlier in the week. This morning I had another revelation when looking for recipe for pancakes. House re build gong on cook books packed away house asleep need i say more. I was brought up with bero cook book http://www.be-ro.com/index.asp
it is now avaiable partially on-line now John I might get that Iphone scan my favourite recipes http://www.be-ro.com/f_insp.htm
when the rush dies down !!!

By the way great pancakes !!!

Google docs on mobile devices

Google docs on mobile devices wow just tried viewing my Google docs on my Ipod touch at url http://docs.google.com/m

now I expected documents and spreadsheets to work but was really impressed that Google presentations also worked well another good addition to Google docs functionality !!

Google to talk openhandset alliance at Future of Mobile event in London

Google has changed its talk from Gmail for Mobile to cover the recent
Open Handset Alliance announcement (made on November 5th). http://www.openhandsetalliance.com for detail .
This presentation at Future of Mobile is the first European event
at which to give a public presentation on the topic.
For future of mobile programme go to this link

www.future-of-mobile.com

Google are going further into that mobile arena just as the iconic Iphone launches in the UK .

Interesting times ahead !!

Watch the video explainig android the open platform for development

This is the Gphone or so the say !

shots of Apples Products in Glasgow

The pictures of Apple Iphone and Apple touch and photos of touch on sale now in Glasgow Apple stir more deliveries today!!

view my dodgy photos of the devices on a powerpoint on google docs at http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dc7bzghg_413xdc74&fs=true

EPICT conference future trends in learning

Mobile Learning and Online Communication

ajb1962@gmail.com

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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RSS feeds of BCC technology pages

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

http://edublogs.org

blogger

http://www.blogger.com

4.2Wiki

A shared resource of web page allowing multiple users to edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki

PBwiki

http://pbwiki.com

Wiki spaces

http://www.wikispaces.com

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

http://www.flickr.com

my photo's

http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysblackhole/

Picasa

http://picasa.google.co.uk

http://picasaweb.google.com/home

4.7Face book

www.facebook.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

the UK now has 5.2m Facebook users

4.8MySpace

http://www.myspace.com

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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OK eat my hat or is it eat my apple !!!

PHOTOS TO FOLLOW.

Well I have seen the promised land today courtesy of colleagues at Steljes and Apple . Steljes showed me the iPOD touch the wifi enabled ipod on steroids . Its lovely seamless the problem of using a finger as a stylus isnt one !! The zoom function the ability for device change page orientation if you just turn it through 90,180 degree. The browser experience the WiFI. Yep its a nice device .

Then the apple guys showed me an eye ok its not 3G yet it will come !!!! Its going to fly out the shops and issues relating to connectivity costs will slow its flight but not much !!

The touch I love the iphone looks good . The battery life also seems amazing on both !!!

Apple have just lobbed a hand-grenade in the device market watch other manufacturers come back at them.

To coin a phrase "Incoming" and FJR (flack jacket required) it going to exciting. As I predicted at the start of the year this is the year mobile learning goes mainstream and Apple have just injected a wave of Tsunami type proportions !!!

Motorola DynaTAC 8000X t (1983) to Iphone (2007)

Found this piece at http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/01/13/mobile-phones-from-the-motorola-dynatac-8000x-to-the-iphone/#more-858
the quote not miss is the cost comparison

The Motorola DynaTAC cost about $4,000, in 1983. Now, the most expensive iPhone goes for $600.

The first phone call made from a mobile device took place back in 1973, when Dr. Martin Cooper, inventor of the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X tested his prototype in the streets of New York. Ten years later, in 1983, the first ever mobile phone was available to everybody. The weight and size of the phone (0.8 kilograms and 25.4 centimeters) made it close to impossible to carry the phone around, so it was mainly used in cars.


That was almost 25 years ago. Now, the hottest thing that everybody is talking about is the iPhone. If on the first phone ever you could just speak, the iPhone does far more than that. It is the first ever cellphone with a multi-touch touchscreen. It runs on a small OS X, and it’s got a great variety of applications. Another cool thing it has is another battery, apart from the phone one (which grants you up to 5 hours of video watching, talking or browsing), which allows you to listen up to 16 hours of music, on the integrated iPod.


Another major difference is the price. The Motorola DynaTAC cost about $4,000, in 1983. Now, the most expensive iPhone goes for $600.

The iPhone isn’t the best phone out there, but it surely is the most advanced and filled with technology, no matter what people say. As the Motorola was in its own time, the iPhone is groundbreaking.

Happy Birthday GSM Network

The GSM agreement and resulting network is 20 years old tomorrow !! Just think how far the mobile has come in twenty year see my piece on the handheld learning forum homepage and maybe you should reserve your place a handheld 2007 while your there http://www.handheldlearning.co.uk/content/view/37/2/

Huge Thanks to Mike Short of 02 who is chairman of the mobile data association for the tip !!! http://www.themda.org/

First Iphone now the gphone or is it goophone !!!

Now is this start of a war of devices and approaches and if so will Microsoft follow with a hardware tie in.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6929537.stm

Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a series of"GPhones", centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps.

In a statement, Google said it was working with carriers, phone makers and content providers to "bring its services to users everywhere".

I use google mail on my phone and google mobile search would I buy a gphone I might but lets see what's the offer .

Is this hardware software tie in by the likes of Apple and possibly google a new stage in development and a revolution or just a temporary blip !!

Whats your view .

Gartner: Businesses should be wary of iPhone | Tech News on ZDNet

Now this is Gartner spoiling the iphone party . No comment of course but worth a read.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6193856.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn