A/V

What can I do with a document camera?

On 01/15/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, education technology, learning spaces, pedagogy, smart classrooms, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

What can I do with a document camera? — from NspireD2

From DSC:
By the way, great picture from the archives here:

General techniques

Show a flat document, like a magazine
Show a more substantial object, such as an archaeological artifact
Zoom in on fine print or a small object – product label, postage stamp, fossil, insect, leaf, etc.
Project a ruler or coin along with other objects to convey a sense of scale
Point the camera away from the stand to show a large object or capture students at work
Project a kitchen timer or watch to help with time management
Start from a blank page or graph paper, lined, music staff, etc.
Capture still pictures for later use
Send an image to a “guest” during a videoconference

Show students how to …

Draw or paint
Operate a camera
Dissect a fish
Read a scientific instrument
Use an iPhone app
Graph with a compass and protractor

Have students …

Work out a math problem
Annotate a text
Manipulate a room layout design using pieces of paper
Fill in country names on an outline map
Sign a song from sheet music
Act out a scene with clay figures, finger puppets, or tiny dolls

More objects you might project

Flat documents
- Newspaper, or dictionary
- Clipping – chart from USA Today or editorial cartoon
- Photo – loose or in a coffee table book
- Student work
Other objects
- Circuit board, thermometer or calculator
- Work of art
- Prism or magnet
- Toy or board game
- Model rocket
- Handheld game or DVD player

More resources from NspireD2:

Tagged with: A/V • educational technology • learning spaces • pedagogy • smart classrooms • teaching & learning

Math that moves

On 01/12/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, blended learning, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, expectations, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), hybrid learning, innovation, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, love of learning, mathematics, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, passions, play, podcasting, reading, simulations, storytelling, student-related, tablets, teaching & learning, tools, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, visualizing information, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I post this here — with higher ed included in the tags/categories — because if the trend within K-12 continues (i.e. that of using such technologies as the iPad, digital textbooks, mobile learning devices, etc.), students’ expectations WILL be impacted. When they hit our doorsteps, they will come with their heightened sets of expectations. The question is, will we in higher ed be ready for them?

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • Apple • blended learning • convergence • creativity • digital audio • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • digital video • e-books • e-learning • e-readers • emerging technologies • engagement • engaging students • face-to-face • games • higher education • human-computer interaction (HCI) • hybrid learning • iPad • K-12 • Keeping students engaged • learning ecosystem • learning objects • learning preferences • love of learning • math • Mobile learning • mobile technology • multi-touch • multimedia • new media literacies • online learning • online media • play • student expectations • trends

Eight Great Explosions in Video

On 01/12/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital video, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, learning spaces, smart classrooms, technologies for your home, the downsides of how people use tech, by Daniel Christian

Eight Great Explosions in Video — from futurist Thomas Frey

Excerpt:

Video is set to go through an explosive growth phase. The coming years of video development will be defined by what I call the eight great explosions.

1. Explosion of Television Apps

2. Explosion of Video Capture Devices

3. Explosion of Video Display Surfaces

4. Explosion of Video Projection Systems

5. Explosion of Video Content

6. Explosion of Holography

7. Explosion of Video Gaming

8. Explosion of Video Bandwidth and Storage

Final Thoughts
Not everything in the video world will be positive. Today the average child who turns 18 has witnessed over 200,000 violent acts on television. Every year the average child is bombarded with over 20,000 thirty second commercials. And the 1,680 minutes each day that the average child spends in front of their TV is making them increasingly fat, lazy, and prone to disease.

On one hand, television is the great educator, the center of modern culture, and a pipeline into everything happening around us. But at the same time, it is sucking up our time, infringing on our relationships, and keeping us from doing meaningful work.

Television is at once both a massive problem and a massive solution. However, as a medium, television has the capability of solving the problems it creates.

Tagged with: A/V • convergence • digital video • emerging technologies • future • games • holography • innovation • learning spaces • smart classrooms • technologies for the home • the downsides of technology • TV

Needed — new ways of presenting/collaborating with visual information

On 01/07/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, education technology, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, learning spaces, presentations, smart classrooms, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Or perhaps something expanded on this vision:

Tagged with: A/V • educational technology • emerging technologies • human-computer interaction (HCI) • innovation • interactive whiteboards • interactivity • learning spaces • presentations • smart classrooms • videoconferencing • web-based collaboration

Relevant to training and education? Yes…I think so.

On 01/03/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, homeschooling/homeschoolers, online learning, technologies for your home, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Manufacturers Turn to Smart TV After 3-D Disappoints — from WSJ (with insert from DSC below)

The idea is to make it easy to shop, surf the Web, (take a class, videoconference with others around the world, gain skills and knowledge, get training on demand) check the weather and traffic and set up customized news pages. Consumers also would have available a variety of other apps for, say, social networking or sharing photos and videos.

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • convergence • homeschooling/homeschoolers • online learning • technologies for the home • videoconferencing • web-based collaboration

MultiTouch Ltd. develops first multitouch Twitter Wall [relates to future Smart Classrooms]

On 12/13/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, emerging technologies, Europe, learning spaces, multi-touch, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

MultiTouch Ltd. develops first multitouch Twitter Wall

MultiTouch to Produce Official 2011 International CES Twitter Wall; Visual, Moving Twitter Spheres Display Tweets in Real Time; Users Can Access Photos; Positional Speakers Deliver High-Quality Audio

FOR RELEASE ON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2010

HELSINKI –MultiTouch, Ltd., developer of the world’s first modular multi-touch LCD screen for large-scale displays, today announced the release of the industry’s first large-scale multitouch, multi-user Twitter wall application. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall consists of at least six MultiTouch Cell 46 Advanced displays, 46 inches wide, in a 3 x 2 (three long, two high) configuration that visually displays tweets from selected hashtags and keywords. Users of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can open tweets, represented on a rotating sphere, by touching a profile image and moving, or resizing, the tweet on the display. The MultiTouch Twitter Wall offers alternate views on the spheres that enable images from Flickr to be displayed, searchable with a keyword, as well. Using Panphonics Sound Shower® directional loudspeakers, the MultiTouch Twitter Wall can further engage users with positional audio from tweets and other content displayed.

MultiTouch will produce the Official 2011 International CES Twitter Wall in Las Vegas, January 6-9, in the North Hall lobby of the Las Vegas Convention Center, with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), which will incorporate Twitter feeds from CES – including the official #CES tag – as well as 2011 CES news from show attendees, bloggers, and exhibitors, and will curate stills and video content from the show as well. Photos and videos of the MultiTouch Twitter Wall are available, respectively, at http://multitouch.fi/about-2/photos/ and http://multitouch.fi/about-2/videos/.

Tagged with: A/V • emerging technologies • Europe • learning spaces • multi-touch • smart classrooms

USB Microphones for Voice

On 12/01/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, digital audio, tools, by Daniel Christian

Summary:
Everything you need to know about choosing and using a USB microphone for voice recording and communication.

Tagged with: A/V • digital audio • tools

Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 5: Unlimited Internet TV — from Phil Leigh

In short, often there is no reason why modern flat panel TV screens cannot function as giant monitors for up-do-date computers.

Thus a growing number of us are attaching computers to our TVs. The trend is especially prevalent for WiFi enabled computers because they can connect over a home network and thence to the Internet. In such configurations computers – commonly dedicated laptops – function as Internet gateways for televisions. They transform TVs into dual function devices normally controlled from a comfortable viewing distance with ordinary TV remote units.

Also see:

Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 4: Broadcast Reception
Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 3: Televisions
Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 2
Cutting the Pay TV Cord, Chapter 1
If you’re tired of paying for television service you’re not alone. The number of domestic pay TV subscribers declined for the first time ever at the end of the June, 2010 calendar quarter. The drop was about 200,000. It declined again at the end of the September quarter by an estimated 100,000. Since there are over 95 million pay TV subscribers, the industry publicly minimizes the significance of the trend reversal. But they are wrong to do so. It’s been a growth business for half a century. It’s run its course and Internet video is the successor.

Tagged with: A/V • cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • digital audio • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • digital video • distance ed • emerging technologies • homeschooling/homeschoolers • innovation • internet • Media/film • Mobile learning • multi-touch • multimedia • music • new publishing models • nontraditional • online learning • online media • online tutoring • podcasting • teaching online • technologies for the home • videoconferencing • vodcasting • Walmart of Education

What would an “Air Play”-based learning ecosystem look like?

On 11/22/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, Daniel S. Christian, homeschooling/homeschoolers, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, online learning, tools, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: A/V • Apple • Daniel S. Christian • homeschooling/homeschoolers • learning ecosystem • learning environments • learning spaces • lecture recording • technologies for the home • tools

Apps World: Nov 30-Dec 1, 2010

On 11/22/2010, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, computer science, emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), mobile technologies, online media, programming, technologies for your home, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • computer science • emerging technologies • human-computer interaction (HCI) • mobile technology • online media • programming • technologies for the home

Will this allow students to “play” their media wirelessly to a classroom’s main projector/display device?

On 10/29/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

…lag-free full HD 1080p HDMI wireless video/audio transmission is now a reality.

— from WHDI Kits Explored: Asus WiCast, brite-View HDelight; thanks to Crudbasher’s Wireless HDMI Comes of Age for this item!

Diagram showing an integrated transmitter implementation of the WHDI standard…

Tagged with: A/V • learning spaces • smart classrooms

Technology integration for elementary schools

On 09/09/2010, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, digital learning, education technology, engagement / engaging students, K-12 related, smart classrooms, teachers, by Daniel Christian

Technology integration for elementary schools — from Edutopia.org by Grace Rubenstein
High-tech teaching tips for little tykes.

The digital-technology revolution was slow to infiltrate the ranks of America’s public high schools and slower still to trickle down to the ranks of our elementary institutions. But the good news is that high-tech teaching is finally providing a potent shot in the arm to the elementary learning process. Exhibit A is Forest Lake Elementary School, in Columbia, South Carolina. Its classrooms hum with energy as the young students tap out blog posts, operate interactive whiteboards, and take part in other tech-enabled lessons.

Here are tips from Paulette Williams, technology-integration specialist and veteran teacher, on how to make the most of digital tools in elementary schools.

Tagged with: 1:1 • A/V • digital learning • educational technology • engaging students • K-12 • smart classrooms • teachers

Video on any device — moving forward

On 08/27/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital audio, digital video, distance education, mobile technologies, by Daniel Christian

Cisco will buy ExtendMedia to manage video delivery — from yahoonews.com

“ExtendMedia will enable Cisco to help service providers deliver multiscreen offerings as the market transitions to IP video,” Earnhardt wrote. “In English: Video, video, video and more video on any screen, on any network, on any device.”

…

“As the video market transitions and consumers expect multiscreen engagement, service providers are enhancing their infrastructure to manage and deliver video to any device while providing a rich user experience,” Rodriguez said.

From DSC:
I believe this type of announcement also has relevancy for those of us in higher ed. Video on any device…at any time…at any place.

Also see:

The Virtual MSO — from ExtendMedia
Apple’s planned subscription service, Netflix’ streaming service, maybe even Comcast’s new Xfinity are early examples of the Virtual MSO. Its attributes – premium content, multi-business model (subscription, advertising, transactional), linear and on-demand consumption, user and multi-device entitlement – come from both Web video and pay TV.

Tagged with: A/V • convergence • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • distance ed • mobile technology

Creston updates their mobile app

On 08/25/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, digital learning, education technology, learning spaces, smart classrooms, tools, by Daniel Christian

Stimulant’s SAP InSite Studio

On 08/24/2010, in A/V -- audio/visual, human-computer interaction (HCI), multi-touch, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: A/V • HCI • multi-touch • videoconferencing • virtual field trips • web-based collaboration

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