Elgato EyeTV Mobile dongle brings live TV to the iPad 2 — from engadget.com by Terrence O’Brien
On 08/31/2011,
in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, education technology, homeschooling/homeschoolers, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, technologies for your home, television,
by Daniel Christian
On 08/25/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
On 08/25/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did for the Title II Conference at Calvin College back on August 11, 2011
It is aimed at K-12 audiences.
From DSC:
Immediately below is a presentation that I did today for the Calvin College Fall 2011 Conference.
It is aimed at higher education audiences.
Note from DSC:
There is a great deal of overlap here, as many of the same technologies are (or will be) hitting the K-12 and higher ed spaces at the same time. However, there are some differences in the two presentations and what I stressed depended upon my audience.
Pending time, I may put some audio to accompany these presentations so that folks can hear a bit more about what I was trying to relay within these two presentations.
On 08/25/2011,
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by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I want to post a thank you note to Mr. Steven P. Jobs, whom you most likely have heard has resigned as Apple’s CEO. Some articles are listed below, but I want to say thank you to Steve and to the employees of Apple who worked at Apple while he was CEO:
- Thank you for working hard to enhance the world and to make positive impacts to our world!
- Thank you for painstakingly pursuing perfection, usability, and excellence!
- Thank you for getting back up on the horse again when you came out of a meeting with Steve, Tim and others and you just got reamed for an idea or implementation that wasn’t quite there yet.
- Thanks go out to all of the families who were missing a dad or mom for long periods of time as they were still at work cranking out the next version of ____ or ____.
- Thanks for modeling what a vocation looks like — i.e. pursuing your God-given gifts/calling/passions; and from my economics training for modeling that everyone wins when you do what you do best!
Thanks again all!
- Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes — WSJ
- Steve Jobs: The End Of An Era — Techcrunch
- Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO –– wired.co.uk
- Steve Jobs has resigned as Apple CEO “effective immediately” — arstechnica.com
- Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple — engadget.com
- 10 iconic Steve Jobs moments [videos] — from mashable.com
On 08/18/2011,
in digital learning, leadership, mobile learning, mobile technologies, new media literacies, strategy, student teaching/teacher education,
by Daniel Christian
Abilene Christian U supports teachers through Digital Learning Institute — from convergemag.com by Tanya Roscorla
Excerpt:
This summer, Abilene Christian University in Texas hosted its first K-12 Digital Learning Institute for teachers. And this school year, the university will observe teachers’ lessons as they apply what they learned about mobile technology to their classes.
On 08/17/2011,
in mobile learning, mobile technologies, Near Field Communication (NFC),
by Daniel Christian
Near Field Communication (NFC): A Quick Guide to the Future of Mobile — from Mashable.by Sarah Kessler
Excerpt:
NFC allows a device, usually a mobile phone, to collect data from another device or NFC tag at close range. In many ways, it’s like a contactless payment card that is integrated into a phone. In other ways, it’s similar to Bluetooth, except that instead of programming two devices to work together, they can simply touch to establish a connection.
So why are some of the world’s most influential companies so excited about it? We’ve compiled notes on what NFC is, why its useful and how it’s starting to permeate the product world.
Also see:
- Machine-to-Machine Communications as a Subset of Internet of Things — from cisco.com by Monique Morrow
On 08/17/2011,
in Augmented Reality (AR), digital learning, education technology, educational games / serious games, Google, higher education, mobile learning, mobile technologies, research,
by Daniel Christian
MIT launches Center for Mobile Learning with support from Google — from readwriteweb.com by Jon Mitchell
Excerpt:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the creation of a new Center for Mobile Learning. The center will be housed at the MIT Media Lab. Google supported the creation of the center with a grant from Google University Relations. The center’s first project will be the adoption and further development of App Inventor for Android, a do-it-yourself tool for building apps for Google’s Android mobile OS with no programming skills required.
From the announcement
The Center, housed at the Media Lab, will focus on the design and study of new mobile technologies and applications, enabling people to learn anywhere anytime with anyone. Research projects will explore location-aware learning applications, mobile sensing and data collection, augmented reality gaming, and other educational uses of mobile technologies.
The rise of the mobile workforce [Infographic from Gist] — from Mashable.com by Ben Parr
On 08/07/2011,
in colleges, community colleges, higher education, mobile learning, mobile technologies, universities,
by Daniel Christian
Your new campus guide: A small patterned square that talks to your smartphone — from The Chronicle by Jie Jenny Zou
On 07/24/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, global / globalization, internet, mobile technologies, social learning / networks, social media, trends,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/12/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital storytelling, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile technologies, story, storytelling, technologies for your home, television, trends,
by Daniel Christian
On 07/12/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Apple, career development, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, mobile technologies, pace of change, tools, trends, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Some numbers from App Store turns 3 years old [tipb.com by Rene Ritchie]
- The App Store had XXX apps on day one
- A year later it had over 56,000 that had been downloaded over 1 billion times
- Last year it had over 225,000 apps — 8500 iPad native — and over 5 billion downloads
- As of last week we’re over 425,000 apps — 100,000 iPad native — and over 15 billion downloads
On 07/05/2011,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, story, storytelling, transmedia,
by Daniel Christian
Storytelling gets an upgrade: Beyond tactile stories — from digitalbookworld.com by J.C. Hutchins, novelist and transmedia storyteller
Excerpt:
Over the course of my two previous pieces on storytelling upgrades, I showed how tactile and kinetic features native to the iPad can be linked to traditional narrative devices, such as foreshadowing. However, where it gets really exciting is how the device can unlock a deeply interactive and immersive environment in which the “reader” is an integral part of a nonlinear story—all narrative features that cannot be rendered in print.
Up to now, I had been focusing on the tactile and kinetic, but there are dozens of ways exist to leverage the iPad’s other built-in features, including…
Also see:
StoryWorld Conference + Expo is a timely event for:
- Transmedia content developers
- Book publishing professionals
- Television development and acquisition professionals
- Film professionals
- Advertising agencies and multi-media marketing firms
- Game developers (including web, video, roleplaying and alternate reality games)
- Mobile developers
- Production companies
- Literary and entertainment agencies
- Writers and content creators
- Media consultants
- Any firm or professional in the business of producing cross-platform content