Social Media New revolution or marketing hype

Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? Welcome to the World of Socialnomics . Thanks to bob Harrison for the link . Video is a medium that is increaingly dominating the internet .

Social Media Revolution

whats your view ?

HHL09 just over 2 weeks to go

Have you booked yet  the programme is absaloutely rammed and worth having a good pick over the programme. http://www.handheldlearning2009.com/

So book your place now and spend sometime planning your visit . Plus dont forget to vote for the awards finalists to b awrded at the awards party at the end of the first "festival day" (the first day is free). I wont pick out my favpourites in the nominees list because they are all hero's of the handheld learning arena just getting your phones out and vote for your favourites see onminees list HERE

go on vote and do come along !!

Children's use of mobile phone text messaging and its impact on literacy development in primary school

Report looking at text messaging and impact on literary development in primary school children http://partners.becta.org.uk/index.php?section=rh&catcode=_re_rc_ic_03&rid=16824

no comment but interesting findings and sensible no nonsense approach

world bank blog on ICT in education

Great to see this and sort of amazed i shouldnt http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/
if your interested in the global picture of ICT a site worth visiting and dwelling on a while . its a blog so go on post a comment and pass the link on !

World bank study use of mobiles in Education in Developing Countires

Thanks to Richard Scullin of mobileed.org for this info
The Use of Mobile Phones in Education in Developing Countries

The World Bank is embarking on a new study investigating issues related to the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries.

The study is intended to help to raise awareness among key decisionmakers in the public, private and civil society sectors about the potential importance of the use of low cost mobile devices -- especially mobile phones -- to help benefit a variety of educational objectives. By documenting the existing landscape of initiatives in this area and emerging 'good practice', it is also hoped that this work will serve as a common base for further analytical work in this area, and inform the impending explosion of development of new hardware, software and business services occurring on mobile devices, to the benefit of these educational objectives.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/0,,contentMDK:22267518~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:282386,00.html

one to watch another sign of increasing rise in mobile in education on a global stage.

ipod touches in classroom setting

Thanks to Leon for the footage http://www.l4l.co.uk/?p=835 year group of learners using the touches in real world situations

Bandwidth Caps for Residential High- Speed Internet in the U.S. and Japan OTI report

Interesting report contrasting US and Japan in relation to broadband interesting read. It forms part of the Open Technology Initiative's continuing research to compare international broadband capabilities andpolicies, we have completed this report comparing bandwidth or usage cap policies between Internet Service Providers
(ISPs) in the United States and Japan. download report at http://www.newamerica.net/files/Bandwidth Caps for High-Speed Internet in the U.S. and Japan.pdf

A Kindle in every backpack publication from the US

Interesting publication from New Democratic Leadership Council.


In a section a better tool for learning has the statement :-

The most important benefit of eTextbooks is their ability to improve educational attainment. For
less money than is spent on conventional textbooks, eTextbooks, over time, could deliver a regularly
updated, interactive, and 21st-century education to our children. There are multiple reasons the technology
offers an improved educational experience.

Now thats an iteresting stement be interested to see the evidence around it but for now just saying the reports out there and worth a read .

Publication can be downloaded at http://www.dlc.org/documents/DLC_Freedman_Kindle_0709.pdf

The organisations website can found at http://www.dlc.org/

something in the air , well over it

Thanks to Adrian for reminding me of this a real developers, mobile heads event. Now I cant do saturday but I could do friday if I blow a meeting out who listens to expert groups anyhow .

http://overtheair.org/blog/

great event mobile madness on steroids but great event

Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up Alvin Toffler

Alvin Toffler http://www.alvintoffler.net/ writer with his wife  of future shock  . article has some interesting thins to say inluding shut the public education (state education in the UK) down . I am not expressing any view at all just saying the artcles worth a read http://www.edutopia.org/future-school

Hierarchy of digital distraction

Hierarchy of digital distraction

Brilliant work by  David McCandless, London based visual and data journalist . I loved this graphical representation of the hierarchy of digital distractions

http://s3.amazonaws.com/infobeautiful/hierarchy_distractions_960.gif

 

I also loved his work on Mountains out of molehills at time line of global media scare stories

 

 

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/mountains-out-of-molehills

Great stuff do visit the site

 

Shift Happens 4.0 The digital media reconvergence remix

Karl Fisch
 shift happens video first produced in a few years ago.
This isnt hte original but is an early version

was one of the 1st ed tech related youtube video phenomena that went viral read the story at this wikki http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com/History+of+the+Presentation the blog related post here

Karl recently was asked to allow a version of the video called did you know 4.0 The digtial convergence remix to be produced this is the result . Love the idea or hate it still worth a look !

The future is a foreign land or is it ?? Its definitely mobile now I wonder whose been banging on about that ! If you now get it welcome to the world the mobile world!

Microsoft's Bing.com goes visual plus look at aquabrowser

Interesting and important development in the search for next genration searching . Now I reckon our friends at google will come back very quickly .

Let battle comence http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8256046.stm

also have a look at aqua browser youtube video of it in use




aquabrower home page http://www.aquabrowser.com/

Mobile camps in Africa , lead to new generation of mobile developers

The bar camp so popular in Europe has taken a novel twist and appeared in Africa. Mobile camps may be building the next generation of mobile programmers by helping to develop a new field of study in African higher education. Recent camps have produced tools for social development and provided educators with new skills. interesting becuase the next billion users of the internet are likely to access it through mobiles devices .

http://mobileactive.org/mobile-camps-africa-bringing-next-generation-mobile-programmers

worth a look at the article.

Teachers TV ICT week

Now if your a avid viewer on digital television  or elsewhere across the web its worth noting its ICT week on teachers TV .

There is games in education,virtual worlds and a range of technologies scatterred through out the schedule.

Get Going with Google Apps In Your School

Interesting post on getting gong with Google apps in your school (other products are available !!).

Not expressing a view as always but worth a read http://techlearning.com/article/22556

Also of interest is earlier post on top ten reasons to use google apps http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/sell.html
other products are avaialbe but always good to keep upto date with developments.

saving energy

Thanks to Richard Scullin for this US example of energy saving measures in ICT in US college Library. seemingly simple stuff but with great benefit in cash and energy consumption terms . This simple graph from the report gives a strong messages .


Read the report here.
http://library.williams.edu/news/262/

Asus To Launch EEE E-Book Reader With Two Screens

looks interesting but what do you think of two page format.
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/9/8/asus-launch-eee-e-book-reader-two-screens/

commoncraft video on twitter in plain english

New to twitter well if you want a simple no nonsense explaination of how its works look at this

Twitter in Plain English

Pico projection in Nikon camera

I want one of these look at the spec

• World's first ultra-compact built-in projector^*1
• Projector stand and wireless remote control supplied
• A variety of slideshow effects enhance the fun of the built-in projector
• Five advanced image stabilizing features^*2 include ISO 6400^*3, Lens shift VR image stabilization, Electronic VR image stabilization, Motion Detection, and Best Shot Selector
• 12.1 effective megapixels for high-resolution images
• 5x zoom NIKKOR lens
• 2.7-in. high-resolution LCD monitor
• Smart Portrait System with Skin Softening
• Scene Auto Selector provides quick, carefree picture-taking in a variety of situations
• Subject Tracking for automatic tracking
• Quick Retouch for the best balance of contrast and saturation
• D-Lighting adds detail and optimizes exposure to rescue underexposed images

http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/digitalcamera/coolpix/s1000pj/index.htm