Comments for Tech-Ed Collisions http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson a blog by Jerry Leeson Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:48:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 Comment on bend me, shake me, anywhere you want me by You are Never Alone » How technology figured in 2008 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/29/bend-me-shake-me-anywhere-you-want-me/#comment-88516 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:18:40 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/29/bend-me-shake-me-anywhere-you-want-me/#comment-88516 [...] Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « The Future of the Internet(2020) [...] […] Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. « The Future of the Internet(2020) […]

]]> Comment on open source virtual world by Tech-Ed Collisions » Nice set of videos of Project Wonderland http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/06/19/open-source-virtual-world/#comment-86512 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:34:42 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/06/19/open-source-virtual-world/#comment-86512 [...] 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 be quite able to get around to is installing a virtual world platform at home. To date I have had one attempt at Croquet and want to try Wonderland. Whichever is the easiest to get up and running usefully will win with me. I’ve got Croquet up and running but haven’t really got much further with it yet. [...] […] 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 be quite able to get around to is installing a virtual world platform at home. To date I have had one attempt at Croquet and want to try Wonderland. Whichever is the easiest to get up and running usefully will win with me. I’ve got Croquet up and running but haven’t really got much further with it yet. […]

]]> Comment on Australian ePortfolio Project - final project report released by Jonathan Dempsey http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86473 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:03:29 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86473 Hi Jerry, You can get more on our view of the world at www.digitary.net. Right now, ours is the only system in use in Europe. CETIS (http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/) is going to issue technical recommendations for the UK’s Higher Education Achievement Record (data structure and authentication related) in the new few months and referencing other projects. I can point you in the direction of people to talk to if you like. The Diploma Supplement, Certificate Supplement and Language Supplement are very different documents. The Diploma Supplement is very much like the Graduation Statement, being about the individual and needing to have the issues of Data Protection and Authentication addressed. The Certificate Supplement has no personal content, but rather each document describes a course / qualification, so there is no issue with respect to Data Protection and only general authentication is required. The Language Supplement is completed by the student who assesses his or her own competency levels, so there is no requirement for document authentication, but some Data Protection concern. A good overview is available at www.europass.ie. Also, you might be interested in standards work in Europe. We are one of three companies (with Kion from Italy and Unisolution from Germany) coordinating the Rome Student Systems and Standards Group. I’ll email you some documents on it that might be of interest. Hi Jerry, You can get more on our view of the world at www.digitary.net. Right now, ours is the only system in use in Europe. CETIS (http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/) is going to issue technical recommendations for the UK’s Higher Education Achievement Record (data structure and authentication related) in the new few months and referencing other projects. I can point you in the direction of people to talk to if you like.

The Diploma Supplement, Certificate Supplement and Language Supplement are very different documents. The Diploma Supplement is very much like the Graduation Statement, being about the individual and needing to have the issues of Data Protection and Authentication addressed. The Certificate Supplement has no personal content, but rather each document describes a course / qualification, so there is no issue with respect to Data Protection and only general authentication is required. The Language Supplement is completed by the student who assesses his or her own competency levels, so there is no requirement for document authentication, but some Data Protection concern. A good overview is available at www.europass.ie.

Also, you might be interested in standards work in Europe. We are one of three companies (with Kion from Italy and Unisolution from Germany) coordinating the Rome Student Systems and Standards Group. I’ll email you some documents on it that might be of interest.

]]> Comment on the fifth screen by Tech-Ed Collisions » bend me, shake me, anywhere you want me http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/the-fifth-screen/#comment-86420 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:52:34 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/the-fifth-screen/#comment-86420 [...] As I commented in a previous post, I am really interested in interfaces where I don’t have to use a keyboard and the Nintendo Wii just keeps going from strength to strength. I can’t believe it was so long ago now that I first posted about it. Using the whole body rather than just fingertips and eyes has got to have merit in all sorts of applications. How about gestures, not simply those we make with a mouse, but potentially the body, as in Minority Report. There is a fantastic scene in this film showing one particular vision of how interfaces may evolve. [...] […] As I commented in a previous post, I am really interested in interfaces where I don’t have to use a keyboard and the Nintendo Wii just keeps going from strength to strength. I can’t believe it was so long ago now that I first posted about it. Using the whole body rather than just fingertips and eyes has got to have merit in all sorts of applications. How about gestures, not simply those we make with a mouse, but potentially the body, as in Minority Report. There is a fantastic scene in this film showing one particular vision of how interfaces may evolve. […]

]]> Comment on Here Wii go.. by Tech-Ed Collisions » bend me, shake me, anywhere you want me http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2007/01/17/here-wii-go/#comment-86419 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:50:20 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2007/01/17/here-wii-go/#comment-86419 [...] As I commented in a previous post, I am really interested in interfaces where I don’t have to use a keyboard and the Nintendo Wii just keeps going from strength to strength. I can’t believe it was so long ago now that I first posted about it. Using the whole body rather than just fingertips and eyes has got to have merit in all sorts of applications. How about gestures, not simply those we make with a mouse, but potentially the body, as in Minority Report. There is a fantastic scene in this film showing one particular vision of how interfaces may evolve. [...] […] As I commented in a previous post, I am really interested in interfaces where I don’t have to use a keyboard and the Nintendo Wii just keeps going from strength to strength. I can’t believe it was so long ago now that I first posted about it. Using the whole body rather than just fingertips and eyes has got to have merit in all sorts of applications. How about gestures, not simply those we make with a mouse, but potentially the body, as in Minority Report. There is a fantastic scene in this film showing one particular vision of how interfaces may evolve. […]

]]> Comment on Australian ePortfolio Project - final project report released by Jerry Leeson http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86417 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:37:48 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86417 Hi Jonathon, Actually I am very interested in the work of the Diploma Supplement and have been reading about the Certificate Supplement and Language Supplement in Europe too. The control of who can see the documents being in the hands of the student is also very important to me and directly related to some other work we are doing here. I would love to find out more about this. Cheers, Jerry Hi Jonathon,
Actually I am very interested in the work of the Diploma Supplement and have been reading about the Certificate Supplement and Language Supplement in Europe too. The control of who can see the documents being in the hands of the student is also very important to me and directly related to some other work we are doing here. I would love to find out more about this.

Cheers,
Jerry

]]> Comment on Australian ePortfolio Project - final project report released by Jonathan Dempsey http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86403 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:59:31 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86403 You might be interested in the approach we've implemented in Europe in a system called Digitary for the authentication of documents including the Diploma Supplement, which is equivalent to Australia's graduation statement. We're using Qualified Electronic Signatures to sign XML documents, making them legally valid and tamper evident. An important aspect is that the control of who can see documents is in the hands of the student or graduate. They define access permissions within Document Shares which are unique links that are used by Relying Parties who are authorized by the student to go back the website of the issuing institution, where they see results of live authentication checks and gain access to documents. This supports the notion of “thin ePortfolio” where resources reside in their original location and ePortfolio becomes something that people do at the time of a transition (employment or moving educational institution), using whatever toolset they like. We're just starting to talk about this approach with people in Australia after the recent publication of the final report leading to the introduction of the Graduation Statement in Australia. You might be interested in the approach we’ve implemented in Europe in a system called Digitary for the authentication of documents including the Diploma Supplement, which is equivalent to Australia’s graduation statement. We’re using Qualified Electronic Signatures to sign XML documents, making them legally valid and tamper evident. An important aspect is that the control of who can see documents is in the hands of the student or graduate. They define access permissions within Document Shares which are unique links that are used by Relying Parties who are authorized by the student to go back the website of the issuing institution, where they see results of live authentication checks and gain access to documents. This supports the notion of “thin ePortfolio” where resources reside in their original location and ePortfolio becomes something that people do at the time of a transition (employment or moving educational institution), using whatever toolset they like. We’re just starting to talk about this approach with people in Australia after the recent publication of the final report leading to the introduction of the Graduation Statement in Australia.

]]> Comment on Australian ePortfolio Project - final project report released by mike seyfang http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86384 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:17:16 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/28/australian-eportfolio-project-final-project-report-released/#comment-86384 Good post, thanks for summarising!! Fang - Mike Seyfang Good post, thanks for summarising!!
Fang - Mike Seyfang

]]> Comment on the fifth screen by David Hostyk http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/the-fifth-screen/#comment-85824 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:35:56 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/the-fifth-screen/#comment-85824 For easy mouseless computing try Integrated Keyboarding at: www.inkeyboard.com which allows you to move the mouse and cursor, highlight, scroll, drag, number and delete without moving your hands form the home key position. It's rational, efficient and simple to use. For easy mouseless computing try Integrated Keyboarding at:
www.inkeyboard.com
which allows you to move the mouse and cursor, highlight, scroll, drag, number and delete without moving your hands form the home key position. It’s rational, efficient and simple to use.

]]> Comment on Trends to watch out for by מוצרי פרסום http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/trends-to-watch-out-for/#comment-85738 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 11:44:01 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2008/10/19/trends-to-watch-out-for/#comment-85738 I think technology will not only impact education it will become education. if 20 years ago kids had to remember things and calculate them in their mind thus using it, today, it is in every simple cellular phone, calculator, journal, diary, people use less and less of their minds, while busy people benefit from such technologies as it reduces mental stress, it results in "dumber" generation. I think technology will not only impact education it will become education.
if 20 years ago kids had to remember things and calculate them in their mind thus using it, today, it is in every simple cellular phone, calculator, journal, diary, people use less and less of their minds, while busy people benefit from such technologies as it reduces mental stress, it results in “dumber” generation.

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