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Wednesday 29 August 2007
encoding eLearning course on HIV/AIDS for mobile devices
Friday 24 August 2007
mobile learning conference
Getting all ITM's mobile learning projects into a creative, informative presentation takes a bit of time and thought.
Thursday 23 August 2007
reviewing offline player possibilities for LMS
The offline players that are tested at the moment:
Meridian |
blackboard backpack
Harbinger
What we look at is: their possibility to be integrated in different LMS's, need to download contents, the possibility to deliver content on a cd-rom/USB, SCORM compliance, quick support system, size of the data that is synchronised, user friendliness and of course the price. At this moment the Harbinger one is definitely in the lead.
Monday 13 August 2007
comparing Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce
Why use it for eLearning purposes:
To inform your learners of the latest developments in eLearning software;
To announce a course that is starting;
To remind them there is a deadline approaching;
To give them more of a team spirit, we all know it is difficult to get a community spirit going and these microblogging systems help with that;
To give learners in low resource settings the possibility to add ideas to a discussion;
To ask a question and get a lot of answers;
To inform learners of a spontaneous get together;
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Why I want to use it?
Because it enables students from low resource settings to become part of an online group through their mobile phones. And because it is fun!
Rss available | Rss available | Rss is bugged |
Mobile support works great | Mobile support only for Nokia smart phones for the moment, but the java version for the rest is in development | No mobile support |
One message template | One message template | Some templates for sending specific things: events, links |
Limited amount of characters to be written | Limited amount of characters in the post, unlimited in the comments | Limitless approach to the message that can be send. |
No grouping | Grouping is possible with channels, you can easily become a member of existing channels. | You can group persons in sets |
No attachment option | No attachment options | Attachment options |
You can see a thread of the direct messages | The threading is very interesting: although the posting is limited to 140 characters. | Threads visible by clicking the title or choosing what you want to see. posting and commenting characters are unlimited. |
Public timeline | You can explore public jaikus. | No public timeline, which leaves you disconnected to potential interests. |
api documentation available | Api available | Api is not there yet, but it is promised for September 2007 |
web based | web based | Web based and desktop feature, BUT this requires installing Adobe Air. |
Support, but not immediately linked to a community, it’s more of a FAQ-page | Very nice support community | No immediate link to a support community |
Limited notifications | Notifications limited to mobile or sms | More notification options |
you can not easily customize your profile | Only limited adjustments in your profile are possible | You can customize your profile |
You can personalize the background + color scheme | Your own background image | You must select one of the fixed themes |
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The nice specials | ||
Great Firefox extensions | Very nice location feature | You can forward a note |
| You can integrate other feeds (e.g. your twitter feeds J | |
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Wednesday 8 August 2007
Gnomedex video's
In the meanwhile putting a course in eXe for the low resource health specialist Maria Zolfo.
Monday 6 August 2007
video exploring day
In a later stage these students will be motivated to publish their material.
In this quest for easy access and information I came across the amazing ustream.tv.
This was send around and a couple of organisations I am in (mainly gender empowering ones) will be using this to get their conferences live online.
The Web surely works amazingly quick.
in house our aim is to:
- publish some vid's on what ITM looks like and what the students can expect
- publish vid's of some major individuals at ITM;
- and publishing video's that relate to the research that is done here;
- broadcast live.
this way we can augment the digital Web2.0 impact of ITM.
I really love Web2.0.
Wednesday 1 August 2007
writing material
It is so important to be structured, yet the organic way of life is promoted on Web2.0. I have no nack for structure and sometimes that gets to me.