On 11/08/2010,
in emerging technologies, Europe, interaction design, interactivity, learning spaces, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
Readers spending $966 million on eBooks
Digital book industry to swell to $3 billion by 2015, according to Forrester Research
On 11/08/2010,
in digital audio, emerging technologies, learning spaces, mobile learning, multimedia, music,
by Daniel Christian
On 11/06/2010,
in 24x7x365 access, Augmented Reality (AR), emerging technologies, future of higher education,
by Daniel Christian
I posted this a while back on my archived website, but I was looking at the topic of augmented reality again, and wanted to post this (quasi) “oldie but goodie”! (As if something posted in the last year or two can now be old…man o’ man…)
On 11/06/2010,
in Augmented Reality (AR), education technology, emerging technologies, mobile learning, mobile technologies,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/29/2010,
in corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, emerging technologies, mobile learning, mobile technologies, training / L&D,
by Daniel Christian
Free webinar on “New Possibilities for Mobile Learning”, Nov. 2, 2010 — from The Mobile Learning Edge by Gary Woodill
On Tuesday, November 2, I will be presenting a free webinar through Brandon Hall Research on “New Possibilities with Mobile Learning” at 1:00pm Eastern time. The webinar will be based on my new book, The Mobile Learning Edge (McGraw-Hill, 2010). I have identified over 50 uses of mobile learning in corporate training, listed under 16 categories. The categories are:
1. Activity based learning – user controlled learning apps
2. Micro-blogging and text messaging – “social media”
3. Research tool – data collection
4. Trend tracking and analysis
5. Just-in-time Information Retrieval
6. Augmented Reality
7. Mobile Gaming and Virtual Worlds
8. Contextual learning – personalization and location
9. User Controlled Media Production/Playback
10. Performance support and coaching
11. Social networking and communities
12. Collaboration
13. Environmental Controls
14. Haptic Feedback
15. First person Documentation
16. Self-organized collective behavior
The Webinar is sponsored by Cornerstone OnDemand and Outstart. To register, click here. (GW)
On 10/27/2010,
in Apple, budgets, business side of he, collaboration, computer science, creativity, curriculum, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, ideas, K-12 related, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, music, programming, project-based learning,
by Daniel Christian
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Concept, graphics, idea from Daniel S. Christian:
But free for your taking and implementing!
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What:
- Choir Practice: A mobile-based method of practicing one’s part
Features
- The ability for the choir member to go directly to measure ____
- The ability for the choir member to highlight measures ____ through ____ (like highlighting text in Microsoft Word), then click on the play button to loop through those measures
- One could speed up a song up or slow it down (without affecting pitch)
- The application would allow for all of the vocal parts to begin playing upon downloading a pre-packaged song or the application could always start playing with a certain part (i.e. 1st or 2nd soprano, alto, tenor, or bass)
- The musical notes could be the same color or one could choose to display the notes in different colors
- Bonus features might include a video of a director directing this song
Why:
- This type of thing would be a great cross-disciplinary assignment for your institution’s curriculum — Music and Computer Science come to mind for this application
- Your institution could sell this application on Apple’s App Store to develop a new revenue stream
- Your choirs could produce the packaged songs / tracks
- Plus, such an app would help choir members learn their parts — 24x7x365 — in the car, on the road, in the gym, etc.
- Enhances one’s ability to listen to other parts as well
- Aids your marketing departments as you point to this as a solid deliverable from your programs
- Creates “study aids” for your own school’s choirs/students as well as for choirs at smaller churches and institutions (worldwide)
- Helps those choir members who don’t have access to a piano or don’t know how to play a piano
Have fun whomever takes this idea and runs with it! The choirs of the world will appreciate you — and so will their audiences! 🙂
Along these lines…another win-win here includes:
That students in the future (I hope) will be able to choose from a multitude of potential roles when presented with multi-disciplinary projects/assignments/courses:
- Vocalists, pianists, and other type of musicians
- Composers
- Programmers
- Graphic artists
- Videographers / video editors
- Audio specialists
- Writers
- Project Managers
- Actresses/Actors
- etc.
As such, students could:
- Learn to appreciate other disciplines
- Participate in/contribute to projects that could be published on the web
- Exercise their creativity
- Practice being innovative
Daniel Christian
On 10/26/2010,
in Apple, 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, higher education, K-12 related, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, online learning, online media, tablets, tools, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/22/2010,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, education technology, emerging technologies, intelligent tutoring, learner profiles, learning agents, mobile learning, online tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
Emerging Interactive Ed. Tech: Classmate Assist and Wayang Outpost – Sensors, AI, and Context Awareness for Learning -and Teaching — by Lynn Marentette (emphasis below from DSC)
I’ve been following developments in intelligent tutoring systems for a while, and find it interesting to see how researchers are combining artificial intelligence, learning theory, affective computing, and sensor networks to create applications that might prove to be useful and effective.
The advantage of using intelligent tutoring applications in some cases is that it provides students with additional support and feedback the moment it is needed, something that is difficult for teachers to provide to students in large classrooms. With the increase in use of smartphones and other mobile devices such as the iPad, there is a good chance that this sort of technology will be used to support learning anywhere, anytime.
Although most intelligent tutoring systems are geared for 1-1 computing, I think there are some components that could be tweaked and then transfered to create intelligent “tutoring” systems for collaborative learning. Students like game-based learning, and what could be more fun than playing AND learning with a partner or group of peers? (I plan to revisit the research in this area in an upcoming post.)
Below I’ve highlighted two “intelligent” tutoring systems that incorporate the use of sensors in one form or another to generate information about student learning in a way that simulates what good teachers do every day. The ClassroomAssist application was developed by researchers at Intel, in collaboration with several universities. The Wayang Outpost application was developed by researchers at UMASS, and is aligned with the principles of Universal Design for Learning.
On 10/21/2010,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital video, emerging technologies, online learning, online media, technologies for your home,
by Daniel Christian
The Future of Television and the Digital Living Room — from FastCompany.com by Mark Suster
Nobody can predict 100% what the future of television will be so I won’t pretend that I know the answers. But I do know that it will form a huge basis of the future of the Internet, how we consume media, how we communicate with friends, how we play games, and how we shop. Video will be inextricably linked to the future of the Internet and consumption between PCs, mobile devices, and TVs will merge. Note that I didn’t say there will be total “convergence”–but I believe the services will inter-operate.
The digital living room battle will take place over the next 5-10 years, not just the next 1-2. But with the introduction of Apple TV, Google TV, the Boxee Box, and other initiatives it’s clear that this battle will heat up in 2011. The following is not meant to be a deep dive but rather a framework for understanding the issues. This is where the digital media puck is going.
While we won’t get through all of this, here are some of the issues in the industry that I plan to bring up and ones I hope we’ll discuss tomorrow…
On 10/20/2010,
in emerging technologies, health, intelligent tutoring, internet, mobile technologies, virtual tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
Steve mentioned in his emails that we can pass this newsletter along…so that’s what I’m doing here.
Steve Knode’s September 2010 edition is out. Some of [his] favorite links this month include:
- Virtual Tutors being developed at NC State
- Donald Tapscott’s synopsis of his new book (Macrowikinomics)
- Georgia Tech mobile phone app for campus events
- Allosphere stunning video demo
- A health application 4 times more powerful in improving health than drugs
- 3D surgery
- More smartphone apps
- Some neural network applications
- Smart credit cards
- More robots
- the danger of the Internet of Things.
- etc.
Steve also mentioned that all applications are categorized at his website — www.steveknode.com/news_updates.htm — and all prior and current newsletters are available at www.steveknode.com/newsletters.htm.
On 10/20/2010,
in e-books, e-readers, emerging technologies, innovation, online media,
by Daniel Christian
Scribd + Apture: Changing the way you read books and documents — from apture.com by Tristan
Yesterday it was announced that Apture is teaming up with Scribd to radically change the way people read books, documents and print media online.
Starting today, Apture Highlights will be integrated across Scribd.com, the largest online social reading and publishing site in the world. This will empower readers to explore multimedia about what they are reading by simply highlighting text – creating a new kind of enhanced multi-media reading experience in documents, made possible by Scribd’s unique HTML5 technology.
On 10/20/2010,
in 21st century, Adobe, Apple, blogs / blogging / vlogging, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, CMS/LMS, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, platforms, podcasting, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, storytelling, student-related, teaching & learning, teaching online, tools, training / L&D, UK, United States, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010: Final list, presentation and more — from Jane Knight
Yesterday I finalised the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 list. Many thanks to the 545 people who shared their Top 10 Tools for Learning and contributed to the building of the list. Although this list is available online, I also created this presentation which provides the information as a slideset – embedded below.
Jane Hart, a Social Business Consultant, and founder
of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.
On 10/16/2010,
in digital audio, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interface design, multi-touch, music,
by Daniel Christian
Musical instruments of the future – Reactable — from David Kusek, VP at Berklee College of Music
There is a lot of innovation happening with electronic music instrument and new interfaces. Reactable is one of the latest in music technology fusing DJ culture, touch screen topography and electro-pop showmanship. Coming to an iPad near you. Reactable says their company “is about the promotion of creativity and the mediation of culture through the application of the latest technologies in human computer interaction, music technology, graphics and computer vision.” Check it out.
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