42 posts tagged “phd”

A nice NZ Hearld artivle outlining the history of the NZ Cellphone networks, on the eve of Telecoms new network launch - and Vodafones attempt to block it. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10569922

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic - Tutorials, Tips & Hints - All About Symbian Feature - http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/Nokia_5800_XpressMusic-Tutorials_Tips__Hints.php

Apple iPhone OS3 features: http://tinyurl.com/detdar iPhone OS3 overview http://tinyurl.com/coydrt Overview of updates in slide below (From GSMArena, and Engadget)

Apple Presentation http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/ Great list of new features, BUT still no video recording or Flash support!!! BOO!

From Barcelona 24/02/09

Finished IADIS presentation - now we can relax! yay, thanks @rbateman great teamwork!!! Lots of questions - good discussion generated, time for coffee now!

From Barcelona 24/02/09

IADIS Mobile Learning Conference presentation notes now on wiki: http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/MobilePedagogy2

Feel free to discuss IADIS presentation here: http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/Talk:MobilePedagogy2

The 2009 Report identifies Mobile Devices as an emerging technology with time-to-adoption of one to two years. ■ Mobiles. Already considered as another component of the network on many campuses, mobiles continue to evolve rapidly. New interfaces, the ability to run third-party applications, and location-awareness have all come to the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking. For many users, broadband mobile devices like the iPhone have already begun to assume many tasks that were once the exclusive province of portable computers. Identified emerging technologies in education include (in order ofadoption timeframe)

1. Mobiles
2. Cloud Computing
3. Geo-Everything
4. The Personal Web
5. Semantic-Aware Applications
6. Smart Objects

http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/2009-horizon-report-released http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf

NZHerald article on future delivery of music – via smartphones! Schweizer, K. (2009, January 24). Musicians turn to tech-savvy audience: Smartphones and the internet prove popular with both artisits and fans. Weekend Herald, p. C5. "Most music will eventually be accessed over smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry, said Terry McBride, who manages Sarah McLachlan and Avril Lavigne." "The smartphone is changing the music industry because of its platform and I predict most consumption of music will be through a smartphone in the future," McBride said in Cannes. Read full article HERE: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10553302&pnum=0

1. Eee PC 901 (Here just for interest and size comparison)
   
2. Nokia N95 with bluetooth folding keyboard
3. Nokia Xpressmedia 5800
4. Nokia E90
5. 3M MPro110 pico projector
6. Apple iPhone (not shown)
7. Palm Pre (not yet released)
8. Nokia N97 (not yet released)

You may notice an absence of windows mobile or Blackberry devices - this is by choice ;-) . I'm interested in devices that students will want to own and use, rather than 'business' focused devices.

Here's a thought-provoking post!

A way forward for learning: "

Teemu Arina has a link on his blog to an article he wrote for his company blog on ‘Horizontal technologies for learning.’ The following definitional distinction between LMS and PLE is huge. It is a key insight into why education has barely moved into the connected age and why social technologies are, as he says, ‘a way forward’:

Horizontal integration is a way forward. In the eLearning sector many vendors have created eLearning solutions primarily for educational institutions. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. These technologies are institution-centric and vertical by nature. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Better fit for a name would be Teaching Management System or Institution Control System.

No student would use the current so-called learning environments during their worktime or freetime. In 2006 I was at EC-TEL where Scott Wilson asked the audience full of educational technology specialists, ‘how many of you use a LMS for your personal learning?’. Surprise. No hands.

Social technologies are different. Blogs and wikis are already being implemented by learners themselves. Call them Personal Learning Environments (PLE) if you want but the key issue here is that they are based on user-centric design.

(Via Smart Mobs.)

'3' have a PrePaid mobile broadband data 'account' option - I'm using this while in Melbourne for ASCILITE2008! Cost is $10 for the SIM card, $29/month for 2GB data This is pretty good value & no long term contract required! AND you can use your own 3G Modem - I'm using a NZ Vodafone 3G Expresscard Modem with the '3" SIM. Only downside is some of the activation process requires the '3' modem software, and it's a pain having to remove cookies to get beyond the 'activation' page each connection :-(