Upside2Go is a solution that will not only help your training department reach out to your mobile workforce easily, but would also enable a mobile-based approach to real-time sharing and collaborating, within and outside a team.
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— from Upside2Go – Changing The Game at Upside Learning blog by Aneesh Bhat
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An overview of HTML5 — from Integrated Learning Services
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From DSC:
Not only is this a slick way to learn about a musician and about history…but it made me think…how about having students create something like this? Project-based learning with a great splash of creativity!
— apologies…I can’t recall where I first saw this.
Royalty Free Music and EmbedPlus — from The Thinking Stick by Jeff Utecht
Excerpt on EmbedPlus:
“You can set times in the video to skip to, you can slow the video down, and rewind. Some pretty cool extra features….and all for free.”
From DSC:
The other day, I created/posted the top graphic below. Take the concepts below — hook them up to engines that use cloud-based learner profiles — and you have some serious potential for powerful, global, ubiquitous learning! A touch-sensitive panel might be interesting here as well.
Come to think of it, add social networking, videoconferencing, and web-based collaboration tools — the power to learn would be quite impressive. Multimedia to the nth degree.
Then add to that online marketplaces for teaching and learning — where you can be both a teacher and a learner at the same time — hmmm…
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From DSC:
Then today, I saw Cisco’s piece on their Videoscape product line! Check it out!
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To “appify” old media, we need a new approach — from gigaom.com
The publishing industry is keeping its formerly inky fingers crossed that mobile devices, including the seemingly ubiquitous iPad, will save its behind. With the mobile market still in its infancy, it’s a tad early to be calling definitive trends, but there is one interesting tendency underway that may endure long-term — and that is the “appification” of media content.
This “appification” is being driven by one question — what is it that the audience wants? And the answer resoundingly is this: don’t just replicate the brand, give us something different.
Blackboard Mobile Learn 2.0 embraces multimedia, gets threaded discussions — from The Journal by David Nagel
Blackboard has also launched a new service to help institutions develop custom Mobile Central apps.
Donate your multimedia skills to philanthropic causes via Sparked.com — from Innovative Interactivity (II) by Tracy Boyer
Some of the current challenges include:
You can read more about Sparked’s initiative over at Beth Kanter’s blog.
From DSC:
This is a win-win situation for all involved…especially for folks just getting started in web design, graphic design, web programing, digital video editing, etc.
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Addendum on 1-20-11:
The future of the TV is online — from telegraph.co.uk
Your television’s going to get connected, says Matt Warman
New Garageband Killer uJam is the best web app of 2011 — from Cool Stuff for Nerdy Teachers blog
Excerpt:
Ujam is without a doubt the best free app I have seen pop on the web in the last 12 – 18 months and it is a really fresh and unique piece of software that is going to blow your students minds. Essentially uJam let’s anyone create a professional piece of music in minutes by simply singing. No instruments required. ( You must see the video below to believe it.)
ProTools opens up — from JISC
Avid adds open standard compliance to their industry-standard audio software.
With the release of Pro Tools 9, however, this has all changed. Avid (who have also now dropped the ‘Digidesign’ sub-brand from ProTools) have opened up Pro Tools to interface with open software and hardware standards like Apple’s Core Audio, or ASIO for Windows, and for the first time you can now buy Pro Tools software on its own (rather than bundled with, or limited to specific hardware) and record and play back through any audio interface. At JISC Digital Media this means we’re looking forward to hooking ‘Tools up to our Apogee Ensemble interface, as well as other Core Audio and ASIO audio devices we have access to, and getting back to what for some of us is a familiar environment.
e-learning outlook for 2011 — from Tony Bates
Tony discusses course redesigns, mobility, open educational resources (OER), multimedia, learning analytics, and shared services.
