{"id":45639,"date":"2014-04-04T16:09:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T20:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=45639"},"modified":"2014-04-04T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T20:13:06","slug":"apple-ibeacon-signs-of-new-direction-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/04\/04\/apple-ibeacon-signs-of-new-direction-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iBeacon: signs of new direction [Barker]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/digital-life\/digital-life-news\/apple-ibeacon-signs-of-new-direction-20140402-35x1j.html \" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Apple iBeacon: signs of new direction<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theage.com.au by Garry Barker]<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For local initiatives, I consulted<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> two Australian pioneers of iBeacon technology and related educational app development:<\/strong><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Geoff Elwood<\/span><\/strong>, chief executive and founder of Melbourne-based Specialist Apps (specialistapps.com); and <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Paul Hamilton<\/span><\/strong>, an Apple distinguished educator, and primary school teacher at Matthew Flinders Anglican College at Buderim, Queensland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Both are highly respected developers of educational technology and iBeacon is the latest of their passions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hamilton says he was the first person in the world to use iBeacon technology in a school. <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">At Matthew Flinders he has installed three iBeacons for interactive technology, library and art learning zones. His website, appsbypaulhamilton.com, includes videos showing them at work.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Elwood&#8217;s largest installation so far is at Bryanston, an elite coeducational school based in a country mansion on a 160-hectare estate beside the River Stour in Dorset.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Bryanston employs <span style=\"color: #800000;\">a student management application that uses an online eLockers information system, distributed by the iBeacon network. &#8221;With iBeacons, a teacher can use an eLocker application to quickly form a proximity group, press a button on the iPad and transmit a notification to students within the proximity to open an eLocker that is blinking on their screens.<\/span> The app is both transmitter and receiver, but we have taken the technology beyond just transmitting and receiving to establishing direct relationships between teachers and students, individually or in groups,&#8221; Elwood says.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iBeacon: signs of new direction &#8212; from theage.com.au by Garry Barker] Excerpt (emphasis DSC): For local initiatives, I consulted two Australian pioneers of iBeacon technology and related educational app development: Geoff Elwood, chief executive and founder of Melbourne-based Specialist Apps (specialistapps.com); and Paul Hamilton, an Apple distinguished educator, and primary school teacher at Matthew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,139,318,32,391,46,87,511,509,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-apple","category-australia","category-education-technology","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-k-12-related","category-learning-spaces","category-machine-to-machine-communications","category-near-field-communication-nfc","category-smart-classrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45643,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45639\/revisions\/45643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}