multimedia

Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book (filmed March 2011)

About this talk
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad — with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is “Our Choice,” Al Gore’s sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth.”

About Mike Matas
While at Apple, Mike Matas helped write the user interface for the iPhone and iPad. Now with Push Pop Press, he’s helping to rewrite the electronic book.

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 3D • A/V • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • e-books • e-readers • future • human-computer interaction (HCI) • innovation • interaction design • interactivity • interface design • iPad • iPhone • journalism • multi-touch • multimedia • user experience • user interface design • visual design • visualizing information

Why 10 Gig-Ethernet makes sense

On 05/03/2011, in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, colleges, community colleges, digital learning, digital video, higher education, internet, multimedia, technology (general), telecommunications, by Daniel Christian

Why 10 Gig-Ethernet makes sense — from edtechmag.com by Beth Bacheldor
Colleges deploy 10 Gigabit Ethernet to support bandwidth-intensive video applications, university research and mainstream business apps.

Excerpt:

10 Gig-E in a Nutshell
Why are more organizations deploying 10 Gigabit Ethernet in their data centers? They want to deliver bandwidth levels that can support ever-increasing data stores, server virtualization and data center consolidation.

10 Gig-E products are built to support such projects. For example, with virtualization, server utilization goes up. And with this increased utilization comes increased network bandwidth needs.

On the data consolidation front, 10 Gig-E can connect backbone switches and routers between data, storage and server networks. It also increases the bandwidth capacity for the backbone, reducing network latency between switches and routers. And because it’s Ethernet, there’s built-in plug-and-play with existing equipment, reducing administration and operating costs.

Finally, 10 Gig-E gives organizations a clear path to 40 Gig-E and 100 Gig-E, both of which will be vital for meeting the future bandwidth requirements that will likely come with cloud computing.

Also see/related:

Internet2 and Level 3 Team To Deliver 8.8 Terabit to Schools — from by Dian Schaffhauser
Advanced networking consortium Internet2 will be working with Level 3 Communications, which develops fiber-based communications services, to deliver 8.8 terabit capacity to support institutions nationwide, including K-12 schools and community colleges. The network upgrade will allow those users to access advanced applications not possible with the consumer-grade Internet services many of them currently work with.

Tagged with: cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related • colleges • community college • digital learning • digital video • higher education • infrastructure • internet • multimedia • telecommunications • universities

What are digital literacies? Let’s ask the students. [Davidson]

On 04/21/2011, in collaboration, digital learning, multimedia, new media literacies, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

What are digital literacies? Let’s ask the students — from DMLcentral.net by Cathy Davidson

It was with these critiques in mind that I asked undergraduate students in my two classes, “This Is Your Brain on the Internet” and “Twenty-First Century Literacies” to come up with a list of skills they had mastered in my peer-driven, peer-assessed, peer-led classes they had not gained elsewhere. We might call these skills “digital literacies.”

Check out their list, and then tell me if you recognize those self-absorbed, no-nothing, isolated, and distracted students described by the pundits. To my mind, this is a list of digital literacies any of us might aspire to:

Tagged with: collaboration • digital citizenship • digital learning • multimedia • new media literacies • student-related • web-based collaboration

Stream Catcher: A new concept for the user interface/learning experience of the future

On 04/15/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, content development, aggregation, repositories, convergence, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, entrepreneurship, future, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, interaction design, interactivity, K-12 related, mobile learning, multi-touch, multimedia, online learning, online media, online tutoring, RSS, social learning / networks, social media, training / L&D, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, web-based collaboration, webinars, by Daniel Christian

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A hugely powerful vision: A potent addition to our learning ecosystems of the future

On 04/09/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, change, colleges, convergence, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, entrepreneurship, future of higher education, game-changing environment, generational differences, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), hybrid learning, immersion, informal learning, innovation, instructional design, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interaction design, interactivity, interface design, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, lifelong learning, marketplaces, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, platforms, play, podcasting, professional development, reinvent, RSS, simulations, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, social media, society, storytelling, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, surviving, tablets, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, ubiquitous learning, universities, user experience (UX), using teams, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, webinars, by Daniel Christian

Daniel Christian:
A Vision of Our Future Learning Ecosystems

In the near future, as the computer, the television, the telephone (and more) continues to converge, we will most likely enjoy even more powerful capabilities to conveniently create and share our content as well as participate in a global learning ecosystem — whether that be from within our homes and/or from within our schools, colleges, universities and businesses throughout the world.

We will be teachers and students at the same time — even within the same hour — with online-based learning exchanges taking place all over the virtual and physical world. Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) — in the form of online-based tutors, instructors, teachers, and professors — will be available on demand. Even more powerful/accurate/helpful learning engines will be involved behind the scenes in delivering up personalized, customized learning — available 24x7x365. Cloud-based learner profiles may enter the equation as well.

The chances for creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship that are coming will be mind-blowing! What employers will be looking for — and where they can look for it — may change as well.

What we know today as the “television” will most likely play a significant role in this learning ecosystem of the future. But it won’t be like the TV we’ve come to know. It will be much more interactive and will be aware of who is using it — and what that person is interested in learning about. Technologies/applications like Apple’s AirPlay will become more standard, allowing a person to move from device to device without missing a beat. Transmedia storytellers will thrive in this environment!

Much of the professionally done content will be created by teams of specialists, including the publishers of educational content, and the in-house teams of specialists within colleges, universities, and corporations around the globe. Perhaps consortiums of colleges/universities will each contribute some of the content — more readily accepting previous coursework that was delivered via their consortium’s membership.

An additional thought regarding higher education and K-12 and their Smart Classrooms/Spaces:
For input devices…
The “chalkboards” of the future may be transparent, or they may be on top of a drawing board-sized table or they may be tablet-based. But whatever form they take and whatever is displayed upon them, the ability to annotate will be there; with the resulting graphics saved and instantly distributed. (Eventually, we may get to voice-controlled Smart Classrooms, but we have a ways to go in that area…)

Below are some of the graphics that capture a bit of what I’m seeing in my mind…and in our futures.

Alternatively available as a PowerPoint Presentation (audio forthcoming in a future version)

— from Daniel S. Christian | April 2011

Goab TV Concept — What if these ideas could be applied towards education!?! [Fubiz.net]

On 04/07/2011, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, flipping -- inverted learning, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, K-12 related, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, lifelong learning, mobile learning, multi-touch, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, online media, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, platforms, relationships, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, technology (general), telecommunications, telepresence, television, training / L&D, transmedia, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

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EDUCAUSE Review | Vol. 46 (2) | March/April 2011

On 04/07/2011, in e-books, e-readers, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, new media literacies, publishing, tablets, by Daniel Christian

EDUCAUSE Review
Volume 46, Number 2 | March/April 2011

Getting a Handle on Mobile: Perspectives

Features

On teaching
Mobile Literacy

David Parry

“The future our students will inherit is one that will be mediated and stitched together by the mobile web, and I think that ethically, we are called on as teachers to teach them how to use these technologies effectively.”

On e-books
E-Reading: The Transition in Higher Education

David McCarthy

“The current optimal e-reading solution for higher education is a robust laptop home base with an ecosystem that interacts with tablets and e-readers for mobile consumption.”

On iPads
Why Mobile?

Mary Ann Gawelek, Mary Spataro, and Phil Komarny

“With their students, faculty have become co-learners and pioneers in the classroom. With no models to work from, they had to explore, practice, and discover the iPad’s potential for expanding learning.”

On websites
Mobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology

Susan T. Evans

“Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity.”

On devices
Mobile: Letting Go of the Device and Building for Innovation

Jim Davis and Rosemary A. Rocchio

“This device-agnostic framework and approach has huge practical advantages in that we can reach the vast majority of our mobile community regardless of what device they are using and we can readily accommodate ever-changing devices.”

On change
Embracing Change: An Interview with Tracy Futhey

“The best I can hope to do is keep an eye on the high level industry trends and directions, and then once we’ve identified those trends, ride them as best we can to where we think they’ll take the market.”

Tagged with: e-books • e-readers • Mobile learning • mobile technology • multi-touch • multimedia • new media literacies • new publishing models • publishing • tablets

Interactive Journalism, The New York Times and Andrew DeVigal [Cababa]

On 04/06/2011, in interactivity, journalism, multimedia, by Daniel Christian

Interactive Journalism, The New York Times and Andrew DeVigal — from AdaptivePath.com by Sheryl Cababa

Excerpt:

The line between journalists and multimedia designers/technologists is blurring. At the NYT, they’re building tools and templates so it’s easier for reporters to actually build interactive pieces themselves. He used the ‘slideover photo’ interaction as an example. This template, when used for, say, the Japan earthquake, is poignant, as when they used it for the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But it was also recently used to show models in last year’s runway show vs. this year’s runway show, and he felt that an interaction like that could lose its power and effectiveness (“are we now overusing this?”). So this is the sort of editorial gray area that they face as the tools become easier for the reporters themselves to use.

Tagged with: interactivity • journalism • multimedia

Bringing creative content to touchscreen tablets: mag+

On 04/05/2011, in creativity, digital audio, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, e-books, e-readers, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, publishing, tablets, tools, by Daniel Christian

Also see:

Mag+ Tablet Publishing Tools Now Available for All Publishers — from Mag+
Bonnier Gives Away Its New iPad Magazine Builder — from paidcontent.co.uk

Tagged with: emerging technologies • iPad • mobile technology • multi-touch • multimedia • new publishing models • publishing • tablets • tools

Adobe Museum of Digital Media, A lecture by John Maeda

From DSC:
If online courses could feature content done this well…wow! Incredibly well done. Engaging. Professsional. Cross-disciplinary. Multimedia-based. Creative. Innovative. Features a real craftsman at his work. The Forthcoming Walmart of Education will feature content at this level…blowing away most of the competition.

This is also true for materials like the item below!

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • Adobe • art • content • creativity • cross-disciplinary assignments • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • digital audio • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • digital video • ideas • interactivity • interface design • learning ecosystem • learning objects • learning spaces • Media/film • multimedia • new media literacies • online learning • online media • presentations • quality • teaching & learning • teaching online

Pearson & McGraw-Hill make multi-million dollar investment in Inkling [Kirsten Winkler]

On 03/23/2011, in change, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, e-books, e-readers, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, publishing, textbooks, by Daniel Christian

Pearson & McGraw-Hill make multi-million dollar investment in Inkling — from Kirsten Winkler

It seems as if the latest study from Xplana in which they predict that the tipping point for digital textbooks is as near as 2015 has opened up the wallets of two major publishers for an undisclosed “multi million Dollar” investment.

Inkling, the maker of the iPad application and platform which delivers enhanced and engaging textbooks, leaving the “flat, PDF-based digital textbooks” behind is the beneficiary and it could give the startup a competitive edge over the well funded competitor the Kno.

But as money is not everything Inkling, Pearson and McGraw-Hill also made some significant content commitments, boosting the number of titles available on the Inkling platform…

Also see:

Publishers Invest in Inkling, Producer of Digital Textbooks — from The Chronicle by Josh Keller
Digitizing an Industry
Matt MacInnis — Founder and CEO, Inkling

Tagged with: change • cost of getting an education • digital textbooks • disruption • e-books • e-readers • multimedia • new business models • new publishing models • publishing • textbooks • Walmart of Education

Now you’re talking. Smart classrooms of the future concept.

On 03/22/2011, in A/V -- audio/visual, education technology, engagement / engaging students, innovation, learning spaces, multi-touch, multimedia, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I’ve been hoping that Steelcase would move towards implementing their puck-like devices — from their MediaScape product line — on tables throughout a classroom…whereby these pucks would be wireless and whereby students could plug in whatever device they brought to class with them, and then hit the puck to begin “playing their media for the classroom.” No pauses, no interruptions to the flow of the class.

Along these lines, check this out:

PolyPly Concept — from Fubiz.com

Tagged with: A/V • educational technology • engagement • innovation • learning spaces • multi-touch • multimedia • smart classrooms • Wireless

iPad 2: An update

On 03/14/2011, in Apple, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, e-books, e-readers, education technology, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, tools, trends, by Daniel Christian

Apple iPad 2 ‘sold out’ — from telegraph.co.uk
Analysts at Piper Jaffray and Deutsche Bank claim the Apple iPad 2 is now totally sold out after its Friday launch, with 70% sold to new purchasers

iPad 2 Sold Out, 70% Went to New Buyers — from Mashable.com by Stan Schroeder

Also see:
Tablet devices: iPad takes over as the lecture hall aid of choice — from ft.com by Tim Bradshaw

Tagged with: Apple • digital learning • digital storytelling • digital textbooks • e-books • e-readers • educational technology • iPad • Mobile learning • mobile technology • multi-touch • multimedia • tools • trends

Nice presentation: 21st Century Textbooks by Katey Craver [using Prezi]

On 03/10/2011, in 21st century, digital textbooks, digital video, e-books, e-readers, emerging technologies, innovation, interactivity, multimedia, presentations, publishing, textbooks, tools, trends, by Daniel Christian