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Be not afraid: Embracing the iPad and the wonderful world of apps in the classroom [Pinto Zipp]

On 06/11/2012, in Apple, change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, education technology, smart classrooms, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

Be not afraid: Embracing the iPad and the wonderful world of apps in the classroom — from FacultyFocus.com by Genevieve Pinto Zipp

Excerpts:

While this initiative was directed over 18 months ago it was not until recently that I had an “aha” moment which helped me to embrace my fear of the unknown and challenge myself to explore the utility of the iPad.

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This student helped me to realize that my use of the iPad and the many apps available was limited only by my willingness to think outside the box and try something new. So each week since then I have explored a new app.

 

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A desk you can write on and not get in trouble! :)

On 06/07/2012, in collaboration, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

My Desk by Miguel Mestre — from design-milk.com

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My Desk by Miguel Mestre

 

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My Desk by Miguel Mestre

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Learning Space Toolkit [NCSU, brightspot strategy, and DEGW]

On 05/29/2012, in education technology, learning spaces, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

learningspacetoolkit.org

 

North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries and its Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA) are partnering with strategic consultants brightspot strategy and DEGW to design, share, and promote an updated model for institutions to plan and support technology-rich informal learning spaces. This Learning Space Toolkit will include a roadmap to guide the process along with tools and techniques for assessing needs, understanding technology, describing spaces, planning and delivering support services, and assembling space, technology, and services to meet needs, even as they change.

 

Learning Space Toolkit -- as of May 2012

 

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From classrooms to learning spaces: New & remodeled instruction rooms [Vance & West; LOEX 2012]

On 05/21/2012, in learning spaces, library / librarians, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

From classrooms to learning spaces [Vance & West; 2012]

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We need a “Fab Lab for Education” [Hernandez]

On 05/17/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, education, education technology, emerging technologies, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, learning spaces, smart classrooms, student teaching/teacher education, by Daniel Christian

We need a “Fab Lab for Education” — from innosightinstitute.org by Alex Hernandez

Excerpt:

In my dreams, [insert city] would open a Fab Lab for Education.

The Fab Lab for Education is a place where educators with big ideas can prototype new approaches to education and operate them for six weeks at a time with real kids. In other sectors, fab labs are mini-workshops where inventors can make “almost anything” without re-tooling an entire factory. Educators should have a place to try amazing, new ideas without “re-tooling” a whole school.

For educators, getting selected to prototype their big idea is a huge honor and people travel across the country to see their work. By the way, they don’t have to quit their jobs to do this and everyone knows that not all the programs will succeed.

The Fab Lab for Education is a highly flexible and customizable space, kind of like the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Philanthropists stock the lab with all the things needed to test out new ideas: 3-D printers, legos, amazing books, art supplies, post-it notes…  basically whatever the educators need.

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The Fab Lab for Education team has five jobs…

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Additional reflection from DSC:
Great, innovative thinking Alex on this posting. Speaking of such dreams, it’s my dream to have such a place here on campus where folks could “kick the tires” on various technologies — where educators, faculty members, etc. could collaboratively work with each other and with educational technologists.  Before a “standard” gets put into place (i.e. such as an implementation of an interactive whiteboard), such a facility could help people test out a variety of potential pathways.  Ideas emerge and they morph into something else. Innovation could occur. Emerging technologies could be identified and tested out.

Other thoughts:

  • This would be a great place for our future educators/student teachers to have access to as well
  • Ideas/innovations arising from some of these facilities might be eligible for patents and additional income streams to keep such facilities open/sustainable
  • Successful approaches could be shared with other school districts, colleges, universities
  • Human Computer Interaction (HCI)-related work could be a piece of this vision — esp. in regards to developing the next gen Smart Classroom and learning spaces

 


 

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MIT creates tech for moving files across devices with a swipe [LaBarre ]

On 05/15/2012, in emerging technologies, human-computer interaction (HCI), mirroring and/or multiple devices, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

MIT invents tech for moving files across devices with a swipe

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AirServer: Stream or mirror your iOS device, such as your iPhone 4S, to your Mac/PC

On 05/08/2012, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, education technology, educational games / serious games, innovation, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, mirroring and/or multiple devices, smart classrooms, technologies for your home, tools, trends, vendors, by Daniel Christian

What is AirServer? — my thanks to Mr. Johnny Ansari at Calvin College for this resource

Overview
AirServer is a powerful Mac/PC application that enables you to stream or mirror your iOS device, such as your iPhone 4S, to your Mac/PC. If your computer is connected to a secondary or alternative display, such as an HDTV or projector, your iOS device can use that display. If your iOS device allows Mirroring then anything you see on that device can be displayed on the big screen.

AirServer is the most advanced AirPlay/AirTunes receiver app on the market. Mirroring has been fully supported since version 4.0 of AirServer. No other app will let you seamlessly stream audio, videos, photos, and photo slideshows to your Mac or iOS device. AirServer gives you more features for less money, and it keeps getting better. Android fans rejoice: we now support AirPlay streaming to Mac from Android devices running doubleTwist+AirTwist.

AirServer makes history — 1 May, 2012

We’re so hyped about our latest breakthrough with AirServer that we couldn’t hold back any longer. This is something no other app has done. This is history in the making.

AirPlay Mirroring for PC is here!
That’s right. AirServer is the first and only software that can Mirror your iPhone/iPad to your Windows PC. This is a pre-release version and doesn’t yet have sound or some of the eye candy features of full blown AirServer. But it does have Mirroring. And Mirroring will enable you to take your iPhone 4S and display the screen pixel perfect on your PC. Over the coming weeks we’ll be adding free updates to the PC version to bring it up to speed with the Mac version. Exciting times ahead.

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Some sharp innovations and designs within learning spaces and offices

On 05/01/2012, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, architecture, change, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, design, engagement / engaging students, innovation, learning spaces, smart classrooms, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

ExoPC and Panama team up to bring ‘tablet desks’ to students— from HuffingtonPost.com and The classroom of the future: Panama wants to give students “tablet desks” — from tabtimes.com by Doug Drinkwater

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The teacher controls the interactive board using an user friendly interface

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Adobe Photoshop Controller for EXOdesk
Adobe Photoshop TM Controller for EXOdesk makes it possible to control Photoshop TM from an EXOdesk in order to boost your productivity.

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What’s happening in the workplace? — from metropolismag.com by Jan Johnson

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The evolving office in 2012, equipped with Allsteel’s collaborative furniture collection, Gather

 

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Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Steelcase, and IDEO Collaborate to Innovate on the Future of Meetings and Work
Marriott Hotels & Resorts Launches “The Future of Work Innovation Co-Labs” To Offer Enhanced Hosted Work Experiences for Gen X and Gen Y Global Travelers.

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

Los Angeles, Calif. – The nature of work is changing: it’s mobile, fast-paced and global. While most people demand choice and control to work when and how they want, wherever they are, working remotely doesn’t always offer consistent options when it comes to access, comforts and convenience. Marriott Hotels & Resorts, the flagship brand of Marriott International (NYSE:MAR); Steelcase, the world’s leading workplace experience provider; and global design and innovation consultancy, IDEO, today announced a collaboration to design, create and test innovative concepts and solutions for the future of work and meetings in hotels. The collaboration comes to life this week as a showcase of these potential solutions is unveiled at the Marriott Hotels & Resorts Global General Manager Conference in Los Angeles.

 Also see:

 

360.steelcase.com -- The Next Office from Steelcase

 

The new Steelcase space in Strasbourg

Also see:

Also see:

 

 

  • .The Pitfalls of sitting too close — from sales-jobs.fins.com by Kelly Eggers
    It sure sounded like a good idea. When Tuft and Lach Law, a small law practice in St. Paul, Minn. opted for open, shared office space, they didn’t expect to hate it. After all, numerous academic studies have shown that workers are more productive in open offices and, in the trendsetting tech industry, open plans are standard. For the law firm, it didn’t work out that way. “We had a receptionist and secretary sharing a workstation,” said Thomas Tuft. “The one with the biggest voice could be heard on the other’s phone calls and in attorney offices by clients on the phone with the attorneys.” If two people had to take a call simultaneously, they were forced to whisper..
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  • Creating Learning Spaces Through Collaboration – The Library is a 3rd Place to Consider — from Aaron Cohen Associates
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  • Space-saving dome shaped bookshelf built into workspace ceiling – – from PSFK.com

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Space-Saving Dome Shaped Bookshelf Built Into Workspace Ceiling

 

A sample image from University of Exeter item re: learning spaces

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The refurbished Forum Library
opens 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Addendum on 5/24/12:

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Collaborative workspaces from Agati.com

On 04/17/2012, in collaboration, learning spaces, smart classrooms, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Collaborative workspace by Agati -- 2012 - Elements Media Tables
From Agati.com

From Agati.com

 

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Collaborative workspaces

On 04/16/2012, in Asia, collaboration, learning spaces, real-world assignments, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Coworking spaces team with universities to bridge the gap between classroom and practice — from gigaom.com by Jessica Stillman

Excerpt:

With tuition costs mounting, the national student loan burden growing and employers complaining about a lack of certain job skills, no one is really in love with the current university education system. But with frustration comes creativity, as initiatives of all sorts attempt to dream up a better way. Should we go back to an apprentice system? Is online learning the answer? How about re-imagining universities as coffee shops?

Excerpt from http://blog.eriin.com/tags/collaborative-workspace/

Essentially, Kennel is a collaborative workspace for creative entrepreneurs in Singapore. Set facing the fringe of a forest, with ceiling-to-floor glass windows spanning across the entire space, we like to think that Kennel lets you switch easily between the bustle of Dempsey Hill and the calm serenity of nature. We also love that the walls are covered in Ideapaint, with markers readily available around the entire space for you to write anything on the walls. It is clear that the space was designed for creativity and collaboration to thrive!

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An alternative to incubators: the co-working space — from venturebeat.com by Genevieve DeGuzman

An alternative to incubators: the co-working space
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Considerations for deploying the AppleTV in your school or enterprise [Stites; Zalot]

On 04/16/2012, in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, corporate / business world, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital textbooks, digital video, IT in HE, mirroring and/or multiple devices, multimedia, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

Considerations for deploying the AppleTV in your school or enterprise — from williamstites.net by William Stites

Excerpt (emphasis DSC):

We are begin­ning to look at using the AppleTV in our school as part of our iPad deploy­ment but much like the iPads them­selves we are in the posi­tion of try­ing to fig­ure out how to deploy and man­age a con­sumer device in the enter­prise (schools to all of you).

The rea­son for con­sid­er­ing the use of the AppleTV in the class­room has every­thing to do (for us) with Air­Play. The abil­ity to give any stu­dent the oppor­tu­nity to share what they are doing on their device with the class and demon­strate their learn­ing is amaz­ing — – can you say bye-bye Smartboards!

But as I play with this idea and dis­cuss it with my col­leagues there are some man­age­ment issues and ques­tions that I have…

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AirPlay Mirroring & Apple TV — from Steve Zalot

From DSC:

  1. Steve has a nice list of related resources and some helpful items re: deployment considerations such as the network, security, and audio/video considerations.
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  2. This topic directly relates to one of my dreams for our “Smart Classrooms” and learning spaces (and why Steelcase’ MediaScape product is exciting and gaining traction)—  to enable students to “play” media from many types of devices (laptops, smart phones, tablets, etc.) without disrupting the flow of the classroom!
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  3. Apple must address the network, security, and A/V-related issues for this to really take off in our learning spaces — but if and when they get by these hurdles, amazing results will soon follow!

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Addendums

 

 

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The best stylus for iPad: we review the hits and misses [Hamburger]

On 04/10/2012, in smart classrooms, tools, vendors, by Daniel Christian

The best stylus for iPad: we review the hits and misses The stylus is making a comeback, but which one is best? By Ellis Hamburger on April 10, 2012

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Splashtop — remote desktop software with high performance video and audio

On 04/04/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, digital audio, digital video, learning spaces, presentations, smart classrooms, by Daniel Christian

splashtop.com -- remote desktop software with high performance video and audio

Also see:

  • Splashtop Remote Desktop for iPad — by Splashtop Inc.
    Celebrating Splashtop named by Apple as “Top 25 best-selling iPad app of ALL-TIME!”  Splashtop apps: Remote Desktop, CamCam, Touchpad, FileHound, etc.  Over 6 million users are enjoying Splashtop apps today! Go everywhere with your iPad and have full access to your PC or MAC!
    ** #1 iPad app in US in June 2011
    ** #1 iPad app in 23 countries
    ** #1 iPad business app in 63 countries

 

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Smart classroom/learning space-related items from Steelcase

On 04/02/2012, in learning spaces, smart classrooms, vendors, by Daniel Christian
 
 

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My reflections on “Flick content from your phone to your TV with a single swipe” [Hutchings]

On 03/30/2012, in blended learning, Daniel S. Christian, education technology, emerging technologies, ideas, smart classrooms, smart/connected TV, by Daniel Christian

Flick content from your phone to your TV with a single swipe [Video] — from PSFK by Emma Hutchings

Excerpt:

Panasonic have recently added the Media Flick function to the Viera Remote Android app, which allows content to be shared between a smartphone and a TV with just the swipe of a finger.

From DSC:
  • What if students could quickly do this in class — without interrupting the flow of the class —  and transfer a paper they wrote, or a song they composed, or a website they found, etc., up to the main “screen” to “play” it for the rest of the class?
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  • What if faculty could just as quickly send files/items to students’ devices?
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  • And/or, what if such gestures quickly sent such files up to a cloud-based repository for that course, accessible 24x7x365?

 

Right now, Apple and other vendors need to work out the wireless network (and related) issues to make this a more feasible idea for an entire campus to implement this. 

But, it would sure be nice!  🙂

 

 

 

 

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