October 30, 2008 – 9:04 am
Project Wonderland is an open source toolkit from SUN for creating 3d virtual worlds. This set of videos provides a great overview of the types of things you can do in them, what some people are actually doing, and what new functionality is available. One of the projects that I never seem to […]
October 29, 2008 – 9:20 am
…As long as its online, we’re alright.
Apologies to the American Breed for the remix! However, this is not about one hit wonders from years gone by, it’s about technology - screens that bend, input devices you can shake, anywhere and anytime.
What’s over the horizon for us with new technologies and how will they be […]
October 28, 2008 – 9:49 am
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while now. The Australian ePortfolio Project (AeP) is an ALTC funded project to “investigate ePortfolio practice in the higher education sector in Australia, in order to provide strategic and practical guidance about the use of ePortfolios in academic institutions.” From its website, the project […]
October 21, 2008 – 7:30 am
The Liberty Alliance group as just announced a new “Public Group Targeting Interoperability Across Education and Human Resources Applications and Services”. From the eifel news service:
Liberty Alliance, the global identity community working to build a more trustworthy Internet for businesses, governments and people worldwide, today announced the launch of the public Liberty Alliance […]
October 19, 2008 – 1:19 pm
In his post ‘The fourth screen and counting‘ Wayne Hodgins links to a great ad by Nokia on the evolution of screens, not just how they have evolved technologically but to the way in which they contribute to how we see in, and how we interact with, our world. The ad shows how screens […]
October 19, 2008 – 12:13 pm
Part of my work for SICTAS is supporting an online event on future technologies (more here) where we hope to engage people in interesting, provocative discussion on what emerging technologies may yield for us in education. As I started to think about this I realised I can’t just look at this area in isolation. […]
October 16, 2008 – 1:57 pm
For anyone interested in what may be happening at the SCORM 2.0 workshop, I see Mark Oehlert is covering it using Cover It Live here.
Cheers,
Jerry
October 14, 2008 – 8:24 am
Or perhaps that should be ‘I think, therefore I (can) blog’. Not perhaps an accurate use of Descartes’ method, but it would be interesting to see what great philosophers of earlier times would have made of ‘digital identities’ or the ‘digital self’.
Stephen Downes posts a really interesting article ‘My digital identity’ and relates aspects […]
October 2, 2008 – 10:04 am
“Effective Practice with e-Portfolios - Supporting 21st century learning” is a recent (September 2008) JISC publication and is well worth a read if you are into e-portfolios. The publication starts out introducing e-portfolios and looks at why they matter, then goes on to look at them from a number of different perspectives including:
the learner’s […]
