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On 11/19/2010,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, e-books, Google, interactivity, internet, open courseware and systems, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
On 11/17/2010,
in Adobe, digital textbooks, graphics, productivity / tips and tricks, tools,
by Daniel Christian
What’s New in InDesign CS5? – [Terry White’s] Complete Walkthrough
On 11/08/2010,
in changing business models, cost of getting a degree, digital textbooks, disruption, new business models, open courseware and systems, publishing, textbooks,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/25/2010,
in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, multimedia, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe launches its Digital Publishing Suite: InDesign CS5 to iPad — from Terry White’s Tech Blog
On 10/25/2010,
in Adobe, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, higher education, K-12 related, mobile learning, multimedia, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Adobe Project Rome brings multimedia authoring to education — from The Journal by David Nagel
Adobe has launched a new multimedia authoring tool for education. Dubbed Project Rome, the hosted service (also available as a desktop AIR app) went into public preview Sunday morning. Adobe said it’s looking for schools to participate in pilot programs using the software, especially those schools that have adopted Google’s Apps for Education or the open source learning management system Moodle.
Project Rome for Education is designed to allow students and educators to create multimedia presentations that include text, video, audio, images, animation, and interactivity. Its layout engine, which resembles the one found in Adobe’s professional page layout tool, InDesign, provides a full range of typeface and formatting controls, as well as paragraph controls, text flow from one text box to another, and text wrap for automatically wrapping copy around images and other page elements.
It also offers drawing tools and a Flash-like timeline for animating elements based on various parameters, such as opacity, position, rotation, and other transformations.
Also see:
Project ROME for Education Frequently Asked Questions
What is Project ROME for Education?
Available as a pilot program for school districts, Project ROME for Education lets students and educators express, collaborate and communicate ideas using graphics, photos, text, video, audio and animation in a simple, unified content creation and publishing environment to enhance the learning experience. Project ROME for Education is designed specifically for students in classroom settings. For more information, visit http://rome.adobe.com/education.
On 10/22/2010,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, higher education, interactivity, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, love of learning, media/film, mobile learning, mobile technologies, more voice more choice more control, multi-touch, multimedia, music, new business models, online learning, online media, personalized/customized learning, platforms, podcasting, presentations, publishing, social learning / networks, story, storytelling, student-related, tablets, technologies for your home, telepresence, textbooks, tools, user experience (UX), vendors, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
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From DSC:
This tablet is larger, which I love! It also offers:
- Interactivity
- Multimedia
- Ability to annotate/save annotations
- Collaboration and more
Nice!
On 10/08/2010,
in copyright/ownership/NFTs, design, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, graphics,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/01/2010,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, accessibility / UDL, Adobe, adult learning, animation, Apple, art, assistive technologies, Augmented Reality (AR), creativity, design, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, Google, graphics, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, hybrid learning, interactivity, interface design, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, music, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, podcasting, productivity / tips and tricks, professional development, programming, RSS, simulations, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, training / L&D, user experience (UX), user interface design, visualizing information, web design and production, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
We use Lynda.com and the feedback has been excellent. Back in 1997, I took a 1-day seminar from Lynda Weinman out at SFSU’s Multimedia Studies Program. I learned more from her in a few hours then I have in many courses. She knows how to make things very understandable…and she’s a great teacher. If she doesn’t know the topic, she selects people who know how to explain that topic in easy-to-understand terms.
So when I saw this item — Connect@NMC: Panel Discussion Led By Laurie Burruss of Lynda.com – Implementing Lynda.com Campus-Wide — I felt that I should pass it along.
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On 09/27/2010,
in digital textbooks, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
Digital textbooks in the classroom — from Startl.org
What are the advantages to going digital with textbooks? Here are a few:
- Ability to deliver updates, corrections quickly
- Social interaction within the textbook – study groups, shared links, social networking
- Inclusion of multimedia – video, graphics that students can rotate
On 09/27/2010,
in digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, education technology, innovation, mobile learning, mobile technologies, tablets, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Kno breaks new ground with the world’s first single screen tablet textbook
Kno continues the pace of innovation in integrated learning with a smaller version of the Kno
TechCrunch Disrupt Conference — San Francisco, CA – September 27, 2010 –Kno, Inc., the groundbreaking tablet textbook and dynamic learning platform, today announced its further commitment to the education market with a single screen version of its tablet textbook. The single screen version extends the breakthroughs and functionality of the dual screen version announced in June.
“Kno fundamentally improves the way students learn,” said Osman Rashid, the CEO and Co-Founder of Kno, Inc. “We are driven to innovate in a category that has been static for too long. Even though the Kno pays for itself in 13 months, the smaller up front investment of the single screen version will allow more students to use our learning platform.”
Kno, short for knowledge, is a transformative learning platform that blends a touch-screen tablet, digital textbooks, course materials, note-taking, web access, educational applications, digital media, sharing and more into a powerful and engaging educational experience that is not available on any other tablet or eReader today.
“From day one, we designed the Kno with flexibility in mind,” said Babur Habib, CTO and Co-Founder of Kno, Inc. “We developed the product to have multiple configurations and meet different student needs. The single screen maintains the elegance of our fluid, intuitive interface while capturing the richness and ‘page fidelity’ of the original textbook.”
The company plans to ship both the single and two-screen tablet textbooks to consumers by the end of 2010. Pricing and pre-order announcements will be made in the coming months.
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On 09/17/2010,
in digital textbooks, elearning, internet, new business models, open courseware and systems, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
Nine important trends in the evolution of digital textbooks and e-learning content — from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds
Per Rob Reynolds:
I gave a presentation last week in which I talked about nine trends that we’re currently tracing with regards to digital content in Higher Education. These are the critical trends that we believe will determine both growth and innovation in this market. Here are the nine trends along with a brief comment on each.
- The increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model
- A proliferation of e-content and e-learning apps that support content disaggregation and new product models
- A merging of the current rental market and the e-textbook market
- A wide range of license/subscription models designed to respond to consumer demands around price and ownership
- The growth of Open Education Resource (OER) repositories
- The development of a common XML format for e-textbooks, shared by all publishers and educational technology players
- The importance of devices and branded devices
- The development of e-commerce and new product ecosystems that challenge the traditional college bookstore
- A move from evolution to innovation and revolution
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Also see:
The vanishing line between books and Internet — from Forbes.com by Hugh McGuire
The inevitability of truly connected books and why publishers need APIs.
But everything exists within the EPUB spec already to make the next obvious but frightening step: Let books live properly within the Internet, along with websites, databases, blogs, Twitter, map systems, and applications.
From DSC:
I’m about to take a class on the future of teaching and learning…and I have to tell you that I was very disappointed to be presented with a syllabus “featuring” a textbook from 2004…geez.
On 09/14/2010,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, human-computer interaction (HCI), tablets, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
Why is the device compelling? [Marc] Andreessen and [Osman] Rashid talk about how Kno is offering a total product – software, hardware and services – that will be compelling to the college user. They can purchase textbooks and view them just as they look in printed format. Users will be able to take notes, draw on the pages, etc., just like the print versions. And they’ll be able to access those books on a variety of devices – even eventually their desktop and laptops – because Kno’s software is built on webkit and designed to run on a variety of hardware setups. And there’s a normal web browser too for the Internet in general.
As for textbook pricing, Rashid says the model will work. Imagine an iTunes for college textbooks, he says, and users who purchase the tablet and all their books will be paying about the same amount v. just buying print books over the first 13 months. That means individual books on the Kno will be priced lower than the average of $100 for the print versions.
On 09/01/2010,
in Apple, blended learning, convergence, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, multimedia, online learning, online media, podcasting,
by Daniel Christian
On 08/30/2010,
in digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, game-changing environment, multimedia, new business models, publishing, using teams,
by Daniel Christian
California State University to license content from major college publishers — from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by Paul Biba
The Digital Marketplace, an initiative of the California State University Office of the Chancellor, announced plans today to launch a pilot to license digital course content from Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.