NZ Christmas Tree

Pohutukawa in bloom for Christmas morning with Tui’s in full song

17/12/2009

UStream Live Broadcaster

Just released (10th Dec 2009) UStream Live Broadcaster works on non-jailbroken iPhone 3G & 3GS for LIVE videoo streaming to the UStream website. It supports Twitter announcements and YouTube archiving. A Great free app available from the iTunes App Store!

http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_blesses_ustream_live_streaming_video?OTC-EX2244440726

http://www.ustream.tv/

Educational Technology for scientific enquiry

Categorizing technologies by enquiry categories

Ascilite09 presentation

Presenting mlearning in a room with no 3g access

Theorizing web 2.0

You don’t GET web 2.0 by reading about it or attending workshops – you must personally appropriate it!

Conceptualising Web 2.0

Conceptualising web 2.0 Bower et al http://yfrog.com/4f456qj

Mapping web 2.0,Bower et al, Ascilite09, don’t agree with several of the classifications – determined by underlying pedagogical use http://yfrog.com/33wqwj

Ascilite workshop

Disruptive Technologies

Here the term “Disruptive” is in reference to a challenge to traditional thinking in order to bring about positive change (or transformation from instructivist to social constructivist) in learning.

“Why has classroom training taken such a hold in corporate training and development? To answer this question, we need to look at its origins and its history. The modern classroom is a learning technology that was first developed in Prussia in the 1700s, and then spread throughout the world. Sitting in rows, raising hands, short recesses, detentions, and other disciplinary practices all emerged over relatively short period as part of modern classroom technology.

The use of classrooms for corporate training is a recent phenomenon, rising sharply after World War II. Dr. Gary Woodill, Director of Research and Analysis at Brandon Hall Research, argues that the purposes of the modern classroom include the need to immobilize the bodies of learners, have them pay attention to the instructor, and instill a self-discipline that comes from sitting still for a long period of time. He also notes that the aim of social, networked and mobile learning is to break that pattern, which is why these new learning technologies are so disruptive of classroom based instructor led training.”

http://www.brandon-hall.com/webinars/webinars.shtml

http://mt201.centra.com/main/Customers/demo/Registrar/NewRegistration.jsp?event_id=0000002a46ea7301245c16d651007f8b&locale=en_US&source=W

Google Maps Navigation

WooHoo – the beginnings of FREE GPS based navigation via Google Maps – not yet available for NZ however

Thanks Martin Boult for the heads-up on this!

Read more at http://www.voxy.co.nz/technology/google-maps-and-takes-over-world/893/28865