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How long used for educational purposes |
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by me |
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| Cloud computing | Web Dev access
Drop Box Evernote
Used for last 2 years or so |
Drop Box for documents and photos
Evernote for documents Gmail and Googledocs Asana (for project management) Using very recently …particularly when I managed to lose all my work having not backed up – learnt my lesson the hard way L |
| Mobile/cell phone | We have mobile access themes across our main university site etc
We are part of a £4m project helping business to take advantage of emerging mobile technologies ( CEMAS)
Used for last 2 years or so |
I now have ( what I would call) ‘a proper’ smart phone that actually works and am constantly amazed by it. It is definitely my new best friend. |
| Open content | New developments in this area are being adopted by the university as we speak. Already in OERu and have various ITunesU content
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The project I am now working on is in relation to Open Educational Resources so this is quite close to my heart … |
| Tablet computing | Again our web sites are enabled for access via tablet computing and have been for the last couple of years | I now use an I Pad daily for work and study |
| Game-based learning | We have courses in computer gaming and a digital investigation lab for forensic courses etc so I expect there are lots going on here but I don’t have the details just yet … | Not at the moment |
| Learning analytics | I’m new to this side of things so don’t really have much of a handle on this but I am aware that as a university we are currently focusing on a pilot group of courses in the current academic year in relation to activity monitoring and learning analytics. I will be seeking some more info on this shortly ! | Not at the moment |
| New scholarship | Some of our tutors undertake scholarly blogging , podcasts and videos etc but this is more of a personal choice | I am now using Menderley for accessing journal articles & referencing and hope to engage with this more in terms of academic social networking in the future. |
| Semantic applications | This is something that I know we are doing but I confess I don’t know much about this. When I find out more I will be updating this J We have a Hypermedia Research Unit (http://hypermedia.research.southwales.ac.uk/)
So I will be investigating further ….
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I have used Xobni before and found it quite useful to find things amongst my own crazy filing system. I’m aware that other colleagues have used it but it’s not a favourite of the IT departments !
I quite like using Siri on my lovely new smart phone but again I think I have only scratched the surface with this ( making appointments, setting reminders, finding stuff on the web … ) I do find myself just using it to say good morning sometimes ( sad) |
| Augmented reality | Not used | Blimey I have just been having a look at this with one of our learning technologists – it was all very Harry Potter stuff – very exciting. He basically used a smart phone app to point at a photograph of him in our course prospectus and then quite surreally waved at me from his inside his smart phone. I will look forward to finding more out about this and would love to be able to find a use for this – how very exciting !!!! |
| Collective intelligence | Not really sure | Personally the interaction I have had with Wikipedia to date hasn’t been great. I just find it all far too cluttered – its probably me and the way I am using it. I like the idea but just cant get on with it. |
| Smart objects | Most of our lights at work are now fitted with those sensor thingy bobs so they come on when you walk in the room – does that count ? | I’ve used QR codes on documentation etc as part of my work but don’t think I have really explored it to full use. Connections here to the augmented reality stuff |
| Telepresence | Not yet | This sounds exciting too. No experience of this – now if I can get something to work along with Telepresence and augmented reality I would be a happy bunny J |
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