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Category Archives: innovation


More on Natal - imagine what could be done in education

June 10, 2009 – 8:49 am

In a previous post I briefly reminisced on the development of interaction devices with computers over the years. Today we are seeing an incredible array of devices and the games arena seems to be the area really pushing the limits. In that post there was an embedded video on Microsoft’s Natal that I […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, game technology | Comments (0)

A truly versatile input device - You!

June 2, 2009 – 8:15 am

It’s great to look at the way input devices have changed over time. From what I understand the QWERTY keyboard was a way to slow down typists initially way back when we had mechanical typewriters. The seemingly random placement of the keys was supposed to slow users down to a speed that the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Wii, interactive whiteboards, game technology | Comments (1)

‘Wave’ goodbye to email - Google Wave is on its way.

May 29, 2009 – 8:55 am

So this morning when I started up my computer and loaded its email client there was a small wave of emails about this thing called Google Wave. Something’s happening over there at Google’s developer’s conference. It seems that in the keynote they have announced a new product/service called Google Wave. From […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, google, open source | Comments (0)

another great touch screen interface

January 12, 2009 – 9:23 am

Even though the CES is on the other side of the world, thanks to the proliferation of bloggers. tech reviewers (and of course, their own website) etc we can still get an idea of what’s new and exciting at this years show. Touch screen and other innovative interfaces and the use of gestures are […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, SICTAS | Comments (2)

followup on 20% time

July 9, 2008 – 8:06 am

A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far.
Cheers.

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

twenty percent time

March 16, 2008 – 9:37 am

It’s always good to look at successful organisations and try to learn from some of their practices/experience. Some time ago we looked at Google and their ‘20% time’ for engineers. Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their time free to work on what they are really passionate about. As […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (3)

on Innovation

October 26, 2007 – 8:01 am

An interesting article on incubators, proof of concepts, innovation and ‘laying eggs’ on the ‘process of innovation’ blog has me thinking about innovating, incubating etc. I have had a couple of conversations with Mike (author of the article) recently in relation to what incubators etc are all about. Mike uses the analogy of the […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, incubator | Comments (1)