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Awesome location-based music project.
Just start each video playing at random and it all fits together into a wonderful avant garde mix. No 2 passes are ever the same and you get some wonderful serendipitous moments where different pieces come together.
Spine tingling!
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Police.uk crime stats for your Foursquare check-ins.
Interesting mash up of open data and location-based social networking. The raw police data looks only at locations to compare crime rates, but this app takes it from the perspective of the individual who moves between locations. The crime stats for your latest 10 check-in locations are collated to give you a "fear" score - ie, if you spend all your time in crime-ridden locations you'll have a higher score.
This is interesting, but I wonder about the meaningfulness of the data. Also, how productive is it to explicitly link crime figures with fear. It makes for a catchy title but is this giving people something else to be scared of?
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Great project blog from Uni of Exeter on uses of AR in teaching and learning.
Now, do I put it in the diigo list for Participation or Geolocation? Choices, choices? Dammit, Diigo! Why not both?
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I'm looking at organisational change and innovation in my MSc at the moment so this is quite timely. I love PIxar's output (and so do my kids!) so getting an insight into how the people behind it are encouraged to be innovators is really interesting.
From New Media Monthly - using maps to tell the secret histories behind places. It feels a bit like turning a real place into a museum - but in a good way.
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A video compiled by Michael Wesch with some interesting thoughts about the shape of university education.
Also, a nice example of creative screencasting and lecture capture.
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How technology can facilitate a more collaborative society. Loved the line, "why own a drill when what you need is a hole?"
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Still a little wobbly but this Kinect 3D video capture keeps getting better.
Draft chapter from Grainne Conole from the OU discussing how web2.0 based tools can affect teaching and learning, the literacies required to expoit them properly and a look at the OU Cloudworks tool
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pproaches to practice. It will conclude by reflecting on the implications of such tools for learning and teaching and suggest ways in which open, participatory and social media might increasingly act as important social and cognitive tools for learners and teachers in the future.In a recent review of Web 2.0 tools and practice it was evident t
This feels like the beginning of something. Ingenious application of a hacked MS Kinect device to create 3D video. There's another example where he augments the video with a 3D animated monster which I'll try and track down
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Came across this today via @deerwood on Twitter and have been wondering how well this fits with the idea of communities of practice. Students, teachers, technology mediators and subject matter experts coming together around the topic of environmental issues.\n\nSeems to be in the early stages but it will be very interesting to see what the outcomes are for these projects.How will it affect the learning experience for the students to be "legitimate peripheral participants" as Wenger and Lave would put it and what actions are likely to result from it?
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The US Dept of Defence has taken quite an enlightened approach to the use of social media by its employees. This site outlines how they've balanced the opportunities with the risks.
In short, they've recognised that using web 2.0 social media sites can have operational benefit even in an environment where security of systems and information is paramount.
Wonder how their experience with Wikileaks has impacted on this recently.
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Martin Weller is the Professor of Educational Technology at the Open University in the UK. This is his blog
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Quite a moving article about a blind iPhone user's experience. Also has interesting views on how iTunes provides a barrier for people with sight impairment.
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A slideshare on designing content for the mobile web. It includes some suggestions for scripting but also highlights the variety of mobile devices and browsers in use and how this affects accessibility. We don't all have iPhones (and nor should we).
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A pdf of a slideshow given in March 2010 about the use of podcasting and digital storytelling to enhance learning during geography fieldwork activities.
Interesting student response data and comments.
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A Uni news item from Chester on how Prof Derek France has secured funding to support the use of digital media in enhancing learning on field trips.
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These look like they will require a heavy relinace on technology and networking and also a workforce trained to be agile and flexible...
...not sure if Gove's view of education fits this.
A really moving example of what happens when you combine, storytelling, mapping, archiving and social media - capturing the collective memory of the "Hibakusha" (survivors of the atomic bomb).
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A little late for the innovation module but A couple of us in the office have been transfixed by this promo film of an early Polaroid camera. Brilliant example of bringing together mechanics, chemistry, electronics and art to produce something really innovative.
We were particularly impressed by how they solved the power source issue.
Found it via James Clay's blog at http://elearningstuff.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/before-digital/
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