cool tools and technologies - exploiting the wow factor
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Presentation given at TAFE SA Student Services conference on 17th November, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
COOL TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Exploiting the WOW Factor
Michael CoghlanStudent Services Conference
17/11/11
Creative Commons (CC) licensed music by Lohstana David
Creative Commons (CC) licensed music by Lohstana Davidfound at JAMENDO
10 YEARS AGO (2001)
• BLOGS• WIKIS• PODCASTS• RSS FEEDS• YOUTUBE• TWITTER
• VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS• FACEBOOK• IPADS• IPHONES• EBOOKS
EXPLOITING THE WOW FACTOR TO ENHANCE TEACHING PRACTICE
The WOW factor is very much underrated when attempting to engage people in educational technology. I was always hearing ' you can't let the technology' lead, and yet all my most exciting moments, and those I observed in others, were when that it is exactly what we did - we followed the technology FOR ITS OWN SAKE and discovered wonderful things!
THE PALACE (1997)
unleash the technology on students – let them decide what could be done with it – let them play (FUN)
THEORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
1. Technological determinism: technology is an external agent that acts upon people and changes society.
2. Social construction of technology (SCOT): it is human decisions and processes that create the technologies we have, and that the prevailing social milieu has an influential role in the decisions we make about how we use that technology.
3. A middle ground between people and machine is the theory of Social Shaping. Nancy Baym refers to technologies having ‘logics’ that influence how we use them. Nicholas Carr calls them ‘ethics’:
“the message that a tool or medium transmits into the minds and culture of its users”
“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.” (McLuhan)
“ALL GOOD TECHNOLOGY IS INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM MAGIC.” (Arthur C Clarke)
Creative Commons Image from dibytes
MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra• RSS• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
RSS Feeds
Flickr Badge
Feed from TAFESA PodZone
MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra• RSS• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra• RSS• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
QR Codes
QR Codes
See also RFID tags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification
Make your ownQR Codes at QRStuff.com
MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra• RSS• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/
OTHER COOL TOOLS
• Flickr• POV (Point of View) Technology• Eyejot (video mail) http://www.eyejot.com/• Slideshare (sharing ppt slides)
http://www.slideshare.net• Screenr (creating screencasts)
http://www.screenr.com/• Wolfram Alpha (numerical search engine)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
Annotating Images using the Notes Tool
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/234233755/,http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4090354867/
Choose Your Own Adventure
See http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddmuir/1924752950/
POV Glasses
http://blip.tv/alexander-hayes/cleaning-a-paintbrush-1042481
An apprentice using POV technology in remote Australia fitting service gauges.
POV GLASSES IN ACTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGbfYkuu8E
OTHER COOL TOOLS
• Flickr• POV (Point of View) Technology• Eyejot (video mail) http://www.eyejot.com/• Slideshare (sharing ppt slides)
http://www.slideshare.net• Screenr (creating screencasts)
http://www.screenr.com/• Wolfram Alpha (numerical search engine)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/
WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON?
a summary of recent Horizon Reports 2010/2011
Technologies to Watch
TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less
Mobile DevicesExamples include:• Google Sky Map for Android platforms, which
serves as a mobile planetarium • History: Maps of the World, containing full-colour, historical
maps• iSeismometer - capable of measuring vibrations and tremors• Reference works such as the Australian Oxford Dictionary and
the Aussie Slang Dictionary, featuring more than 700 common Australian phrases.
TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less
Mobile Internet DevicesThe knfbReader Mobile is designed to help those with learning disabilities or visual impairment. The user snaps a picture of text using his or her mobile phone and the phone converts the text to speech.
TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less
eBooks• Flipboard – a magazine featuring you and your
social network
http://www.cooliris.com/ipad/discover/
WIKIPEDIA + COOLIRIS = DISCOVER
TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 yearsAugmented Reality (AR)
TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0
The future is already here — it's just not evenly distributed. (William Gibson)
TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years
http://www.vimeo.com/2341387
TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 years
Gesture Based ComputingRelevance for Teaching and LearningThe kinaesthetic nature of gesture-based computingwill very likely lead to new kinds of teaching ortraining simulations that look, feel, and operatealmost exactly like their real-world counterparts.The ease and intuitiveness of a gestural interfacemakes the experience seem very natural, and evenfun, making them relevant for learning at any ageor level of study..
Gesture Based Computing
http://www.youtube.com/user/oblongtamper
Sixth Sense Technology
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 yearsVisual Data AnalysisExamples: http://www.google.com/publicdata/home
TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 yearsVisual Data Analysis
http://www.ushahidi.com/
TIME TO ADOPTION – 4 to 5 yearsVisual Data Analysis
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/
THE APP WORLD
These are MAGIC:
• SoundHound• My Tracks• Google Goggles• Flightradar 24• Etc etc
http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/
Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens will enter places of work and learning highly connected to a network of peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual learning, and collaboration. They may expect to be able to make use of these personal learning and social networks, and the technologies that make these networks possible, in their places of work or study. These web 2.0 citizens operate in a world that is open and mobile, and they are unlikely to accept authority that is automatically assigned to a position. Their world is flat and devoid of hierarchy. In a world where information about their areas of interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will place greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond classroom or workplace boundaries, and knowing where to get the knowledge and information they need, is more important than having that knowledge and information themselves.
Michael [email protected]
THANK YOU
Australian – New Zealand 2010 Horizon Report HERE
Creative Commons (CC) licensed music by Lohstana Davidfound at JAMENDO