Convergence

  San Francisco – Golden Gate Bridge, originally uploaded by Olivander. BY-NC-SA, Oliver Hammond The last several posts have focused on how sustainability can be used as a model for the selection and adoption of learning technologies. One indicator of a sustainable technology is convergence – to what degree does the emerging technology support (or [...]

The Tablet as Sustainable Learning Technology

The iPad 2 and Motorola Xoom tablets were released in the past couple of weeks, both of which will likely bring new opportunities for mobile learning. What’s the Story ebook on iPad and iPhone, originally uploaded by shiftstigma. The first time I saw an iPad I thought “what’s the difference between that and my iPod [...]

Sustainability and Mobile Technology

Blackboard Mobile Learn, originally uploaded by jrhode. According to the New Media Consortium’s annual Horizon Report, mobile learning continues to be one of the fastest growing emerging technologies for teaching and learning. Smartphones and tablets are becoming the preferred method for accessing the Internet. You may find the majority of your students already have smartphones [...]

How’re ya holdin up?

We define “sustainable” as that which has the capacity to endure. In other words, it holds up over time – like this bronze statue of Atlas I found on Flickr. Bronze has been around since – well, the bronze age – and continues to be the medium of choice by sculptors wishing to have their [...]

What do you bring to the Table?

  Making the dip, originally uploaded by MonkeyEggplant. Found this pic on Flickr of a someone’s special dip they brought to a potluck. Open Content is kinda like a potluck. You can always count on some people to bring chips to the potluck – they’re fast, cheap, and easy. They don’t require much effort so [...]

“Enhanced Physical Reality”

…is how Ubimark describes its application. The gist of the technology is a 2-dimensional graphic is printed on a page (textbook, map, brochure, etc.). The user “scans” the graphic by taking a pic with their iPhone camera. The graphic is recognized as an URL by the iPhone App and displays the related link in the [...]

Digital Media Literacy

After reading Clive Shepherd‘s post on Media Elements I decided to host a Faculty Learning Community this summer on the topic of Digital Media Literacy.  For a couple of hours each Tuesday our FLC will explore various digital media elements: typography, illustration, photography, animation, audio and video, and consider when, where, and how they might [...]

Google Voice Transcription

I finally got Google Voice. I had put in a request several months ago, but hadn’t heard back. While attending a recent conference someone was telling me how much they liked it (though it  came across as bragging at the time). I told them I was jealous and still impatiently waiting. They offered to send [...]

Technology-Induced Agoraphobia (TIA)

One of the things I enjoy most about my job  is helping faculty decide which technologies to use for teaching and learning. Several times a week an instructor may approach me looking to solve a challenge in their classroom with technology. As a learning technologist (another fun) part of my job is spending time exploring [...]

Twitter – Good Technology for Mobile Learning

Earlier this month I attended the ELI 2010 Spring Focus Session – a 2-day virtual conference on mobile learning. We set up a viewing room on our campus for people to meet, watch the presentations and participate in the discussions. As with most conferences these days – virtual or otherwise – someone set up a [...]