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On 05/22/2012,
in analytics, Augmented Reality (AR), Australia, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, expectations, future, game-changing environment, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, new media literacies, online learning, open courseware and systems, publishing, teaching & learning, technology (general), telepresence, trends, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
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:
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Also see:
- North Entrance of library brings new student workspace — from nineronline.com Elizabeth Bartholf
- .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
. - Space-saving dome shaped bookshelf built into workspace ceiling – – from PSFK.com
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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:
- Designing the Office to be less and more — from HermanMiller.com by Randall Braaksma
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From DSC:
My thanks go out to Mr. Rob Bobeldyk at Calvin College for this resource.
On 04/25/2012,
in Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, Google, IT in HE, Microsoft, vendors, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
The Google Drive review you’ve been waiting for — from readwriteweb.com by Jon Mitchell
Excerpt:
Google Drive, the long-awaited file storage and syncing service, launch[ed yesterday]. If you follow tech news closely, you’ve seen bits and pieces of the news leaking out over the past two weeks. We’ve tested it and we’ve talked to the team leaders. Forget all the speculation. Here’s what Google Drive actually is.
Full-sized screenshots of the Google Drive iPad app — from readwriteweb.com by Jon Mitchell
Excerpt:
Google Drive launched [yesterday], but the iOS version of the app was unexpectedly not ready. Google says it’s almost there, but it won’t launch for “a few weeks.” But Google provided ReadWriteWeb with a bunch of full-size screenshots of the app, so we could know what to expect.
Google’s Drive adds to a complicated cloud — from technologyreview.com by Tom Simonite
Excerpt:
A new cloud-storage service from the search giant steps on the toes of startups like Dropbox and opens a new front against Apple and Microsoft.
Addendum on 4/26:
- Is Google’s onerous TOS designed to steal your stuff? –– from PCMag.com by John C. Dvorak
People are far too concerned about Google’s potential for abuse. (From DSC: I disagree; there is room for concern when you hold that much power/data in your hands. Think of political campaigns as but one example. What if someone — or some government or some terrorist organization or drug cartel — pays off some Google employee to nab Person ABC’s mailbox, documents, data? Call me skeptical…but I think anything’s possible these days given the moral fabric of our world.) - Google Drive terms of service: ‘A toxic brew’ — from cnet.com by Rafe Needleman
Google isn’t about to make your private files public, but that doesn’t excuse its sloppy terms of service. Google has inadvertently stoked privacy concerns about files uploaded to its newly released Google Drive by issuing poorly written rules that are more apt to confuse than to clarify. - Hands on with Google Drive — from PCMag.com by Mark Hachman
While Google has positioned its new Google Drive cloud-storage service as one that straddles the consumer and business space, those using it for collaboration will probably get the most out of it.
Also see:
- Just how big is the Amazon cloud anyway? — from gigaom.com by Barb Darrow
- 3 cloud services that make work easier — from Inc.com by Christina DesMarais
Protect yourself against data loss, security blunders, and–that real productivity killer–inefficiency.
Addendum on 4/27/12:
- Google Apps for Education and the New Google Drive — from hackeducation.com by Audrey Watters
On 04/23/2012,
in collaboration, creativity, digital storytelling, disruption, media/film, multimedia, new media literacies, story, storytelling, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
“Hollywood will be destroyed and no one will notice,” Wales said. But it won’t be Wikipedia (or Encarta) that kills the moviemaking industry: ” Collaborative storytelling and filmmaking will do to Hollywood what Wikipedia did to Encyclopedia Britannica,” he said.
— quote from Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: You’re Doomed (And Not Because of Piracy) at wired.com by Ryan Singel
On 04/23/2012,
in accessibility / UDL, communications, neurodivergent/special needs, telepresence, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
Our mission is to make telepractice practical and affordable while providing an extraordinary therapy experience. The PresenceLearning solution includes the latest video-conferencing tools, engaging games and evidence-based activities, and time-saving collaboration and practice management tools. See videos of how it works
Also:
- PresenceLearning Wins 2012 BESSIE Award
Live online speech therapy service recognized in Special Education Website category
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19, 2012 – PresenceLearning (www.presencelearning.com), the leading provider of live online speech therapy services to K-12 students, was recently named a winner in the Multi-Level: Special Education Website category of The ComputED Gazette’s 18th Annual Best Educational Software Awards (BESSIE Awards). The awards program targets innovative and content-rich programs and websites that provide parents and teachers with the technology to foster educational excellence.
On 04/17/2012,
in collaboration, learning spaces, smart classrooms, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/17/2012,
in 21st century, career development, change, creativity, education, education technology, future, global / globalization, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
I’ll be in the HoloClass today — from The EvoLLLution (LLL=LifeLongLearning) by Frank Palatnick, UN Advisor of Global Education, International Agency for Economic Development
From DSC:
A creative and very interesting vision from Frank — the first in the series that The Evolution is running re: education in the mid-21st century. I can’t help but wonder how this vision impacts jobs/career paths out there. Nice work Frank.
A creative and very interesting vision from Frank — the first in the series that The Evolution is running re: education in the mid-21st century. I can’t help but wonder how this vision impacts jobs/career paths out there. Nice work Frank.
On 04/03/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, collaboration, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, disruption, distance education, elearning, emerging technologies, innovation, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, mobile learning, mobile technologies, online learning, telepresence, vendors, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
- Another innovation that aids web-based collaboration.
- Make that one more movement up the disruptive innovation curve (of online learning).
As an addendum on 3/4, check out:
- The new Cybertecture Mirror from Hong Kong-based founder James Law; introductory/features video; originally saw here
- This functionality, too, could be bundled into the Smart/Connected TV of the future
On 03/27/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, collaboration, innovation, mobile learning, vendors, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/09/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future of higher education, game-changing environment, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), Learning from the Living [Class] Room, marketplaces, online learning, online media, online tutoring, social learning / networks, student-related, technologies for your home, transmedia, trends, TVs, using teams, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Here are some items related to what I call “Learning from the Living Room” — a trend that continues to develop that involves:
- Using high-end, personalized, multimedia-based, interactive, team-created content — packed with new reporting tools for better diagnostics/learning analytics — available via a cloud-based “education store”/marketplace/exchange
- Web-accessible content that’s available 24x7x365
- The power of social networks/learning
- Riding the wave of the massive convergence of the computer, the telephone, and the television.
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Smarter TV: Living room as digital hub from Samsung and Microsoft to Apple and Google — from wired.com by Tim Carmody
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
- In the future, the living room will replace the home office as most households’ home for the stationary personal computer. Instead of printers and mice and other corded accessories, networked appliances and post-PC machines share data with one another and with the cloud. Play and productivity both become decentered; gaming and entertainment might be on a tablet or a television, with recipes at the refrigerator, a shopping list for the smartphone, and an instructional video on the television set. All of these experiences will be coherent, continuous and contextual. And like the personal computer at the height of Pax Wintel, the living room will be a platform characterized by triumphant pluralism.“The thing about the living room is that it’s universal; everyone in the household uses it,” Samsung VP Eric Anderson told me at today’s event. “We know that we’re not going to capture every single member of the household. In my family, my wife and my daughter are Apple, me and my sons are Android,” he noted, pointing out that the majority of devices introduced today can interact with either mobile platform.
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The modern mechanics of app stores: today, tomorrow and connected TV — from guardian.co.uk by Dean Johnson
Excerpt:
What’s next for app stores?
It’s time for each platform to up its game – smart TVs are coming. The small and medium screen experience will shortly be translated to the bigger screen as connectivity and discoverability takes on even greater importance.
Google and Apple will further interweave themselves into our daily lives as iOS and Android seamlessly combine our smartphones and tablets with our new smartTVs. Electronic Program Guides (EPGs) and the programmes themselves will suggest related content, from apps to music to film to books. This must all be presented in an approachable, then browsable manner to encourage additional discovery.
The quest for the perfect meta-data will become increasingly important and voice commands will need to deliver the best search results with the minimum of fuss. This time next year, the battle of the app stores will be fought on the move, on the desktop and on the living room wall.
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Samsung Launches Smart TVs With Gestures, Voice Control — from by Douglas Perry
Excerpt:
A Kinect-like feature is made possible via camera and microphone integration that comes standard with the LED ES7500, LED ES8000 and Plasma E8000 models. According to Samsung, consumers can launch apps such as Facebook or YouTube, or search the web via voice commands. Waving the hand will move the cursor and select links. The TVs integrate a Samsung dual-core processor as well as a new Webkit-based web browser to improve overall performance. The high-end 7500 and 8000 TVs ship with a remote with an integrated touchscreen. A wireless keyboard that is compatible with Samsung’s TVs as well as the Galaxy Tab tablet is sold as an option.
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New TV experiences through companion apps — from moxie pulse
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New videoconferencing tool lets distant musicians rehearse live — from The Chronicle by Nick DeSantis
On 02/22/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, analytics, career development, disruption, education, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, online learning, personalized/customized learning, strategy, student teaching/teacher education, student-related, vendors, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Blackboard launches solution to improve developmental education
Fully online courses now include built-in assessment, analytics tools
Excerpt:
WASHINGTON – February 22, 2012 – Blackboard Inc. today announced the official launch of Blackboard Developmental Education™ (Blackboard DevEd), an innovative approach aimed at improving student outcomes and increasing completion rates in an area where many institutions have struggled. The solution, which was first piloted by several institutions in the fall, now includes built-in assessment and analytics tools that enable course instructors to further personalize their instruction.
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Early reflections from DSC:
- First of all, my congratulations go out to Blackboard for innovating! Nice work.
- This is another example of the innovation occurring in the online/digital learning world — yet more tools and diagnostic powers are being made available to online-based teaching and learning environments
- This should be another shot across the bow of how institutions of higher education are training our future teachers — student teachers NEED to know how to teach online!!!
- Too early to tell how such endeavors will affect career paths (for teachers, administrators, counselors, nurses, and such)
Also see:
- Innosight’s Michael Horn on how ‘blended learning’ and technology can bridge the education gap — from knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu
On 02/22/2012,
in collaboration, pedagogy, teaching & learning, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
My students don’t like group work — from Faculty Focus by Maryellen Weimer
On 02/09/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, Europe, future, internet, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, mirroring and/or multiple devices, more voice more choice more control, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, social media, technologies for your home, TVs,
by Daniel Christian
![The future of internet TV [Europe]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BusinessEurope-FutureOfIntTV-Feb9-2012.jpg "BusinessEurope-FutureOfIntTV-Feb9-2012")
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From DSC:
Entertainment, some news, and social media at bat — educational apps on deck.