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Twittering in lessons & lectures

April 16, 2009 – 8:00 am

Would allowing your students to Twitter in your lessons or lectures be too much of a distraction for you or them if their tweets were related to your topic?
Earlier this year Wired Campus had an article A Professor’s Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom. David Parry, the professor in question, says that encouraging twittering […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, twitter | Comments (1)

Australian household access to computers & the internet

February 20, 2009 – 7:00 am

A report at the end of 2008 by the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealed that in 2007-08, 67% of Australian households had home Internet access and 75% of households had access to a computer. In 2007-08, the number of households with a Broadband Internet connection increased by 22% from the previous year, to an estimated […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, emerging technologies | Comments (1)

How good have the predictions been?

January 23, 2009 – 8:35 am

Yesterday I wrote about the release of the 2009 Horizon Report in What’s On the Horizon? In the past I have looked at the 2008 Horizon report (Emerging Technologies or practices) and the 2008 Australian New Zealand edition released at the end of last year. I’ve referred to them in a variety of other posts.
It […]

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Trends predicted for 2009

January 7, 2009 – 8:00 am

So, 2009 is with us, and predictions for what will happen are beginning to emerge, even though we have already had some predictors with the Horizon reports.
m-trends.org makes his Mobile and Wireless predictions for 2009.

1. 10 startups I know personally will go bankrupt
2. iPhone Nano
3. Location becomes obsolete
4. Mobile will boost Virtual Goods consumption
5. Mobile […]

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How permanently connected are you?

January 6, 2009 – 8:01 am

Out with some friends the other night, the conversation got around to how easy it was to keep in touch with family and friends. My husband sent an SMS to our daughter overseas, and minutes later she replied. The day before we had been having a conversation with our son in law via MS Messenger.
In […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, digital footprint, cloud computing | Comments (1)

Cloud Computing Reprise

November 18, 2008 – 9:08 am

The hype about Cloud Computing continues. I have an Google Alert scheduled daily on the topic, and there has definitely been a growth in news items about it.
Here’s Cloud Computing in Plain English

Some links to check:

A review of Noteflight, “the first online music compositiontool that sits entirely on the web.”
What Cloud Computing Can Do For […]

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technologies and education: mobile technologies

November 6, 2008 – 3:23 pm

I’ve been doing some trawling of video offerings on the internet in the last couple of days looking for some about communication technologies related to education.
I’ve mainly been looking at Youtube, and I am aware that in some cases restrictions at the workplace may mean that you will have to look at these at home.
So, […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools | Comments (2)