http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org Andrew Oliver's blog on social web tools in education Wed, 07 May 2008 08:51:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Bob Sprankle (techLEARNING - Web Link) Great article which lists the possible uses of video in the classroom. This comes from the school angle but can easily be applied to higher education context. Some of the suggestions which stand out for me are: Film students on the first day of school, asking ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/05/07/caught-on-video/ From NewScientistTech (Web Link). I'm very much experiencing blogging guilt at the moment. I have a huge list of things to blog about but haven't had the time recently. Anyway here's something that caught my eye. De Montfort University has developed a system which tracks the movemnent of the users eyes and ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/05/07/eye-gaze-interaction-with-virtual-worlds/ From MITS Technology Review by Erica Naone, (Web Link). A great article which looks at how you can represent a persons social graph - a person's network of friends, family, and acquaintances. The Blogosphere Matthew Hurst, a scientist at Microsoft's Live Labs, used a search tool, called Blogpulse, to generate visualizations of the ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/sites-like-facebook-are-proving-the-value-of-the-social-graph/ This will be useful. Personally I don't like the avatars in Second Life - I'd rather be represented by an abstract concept. "DAZ 3D, a company based in Draper, UT, that makes software and models for creating 3-D art, recently announced the MogBox, a program that would allow ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/22/one-avatar-many-worlds/ Another video currently doing the rounds. This considers as to how the internet allows people the freedom to voice thoughts and ideas. And as more people join in the ideas become pooled and shared and taken on life. Quite rightly it states that new ideas come about through conversation and ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/17/we-think/ Or as some have put it “Viewfinder: tool for "Flickrizing" Google Earth” (here) or “A 3-D Viewfinder for a Shoebox of Digital Photos” (here) Well this is an absolute belter. I would suggest playing the video straight away and then reading the text. A group of researchers and digital artists at the University ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/11/integrating-photos-into-3d-worlds/ "More than a quarter of eight to 11-year-olds who are online in the UK have a profile on a social network, research shows." Form the BBC a lengthy article on the continued rise of social networking. There's some very interesting stats, for example: * 49% of children 8-17 have an online profile * ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/10/children-flock-to-social-networks/ OR How to Create a Great PowerPoint Without Breaking the Law Presented at the eTech Ohio 2008 conference by Alvin Trusty and hosted on TeacherTube (www.teachertube.com). A very good PowerPoint presentation which manages to make the subject of copyright actually interesting. Half of the talk focus’s on copyright while the other considers ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/09/beg-borrow-but-dont-steal/ Well I did it. I finally managed to embed a YouTube video within Google Earth for all to see. Google Earth is virtual globe , which sits on your desktop, and is created from superimposed images obtained from satellite imagery and aerial photography, (for more info click here and download ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/08/university-youtube-google-earth-and-the-wider-community/ Interesting. Using web 2.0 technology to create a narrative and tell a story. The whole process appears to have been captured using screencasting software in which zoom-ins and motion were used to emphasis key points within the story. [youtube]YVYLhDTv3eM[/youtube] Via the Bionic Teaching site (here) consider how this might be taken further: ... http://drandyoliver.edublogs.org/2008/04/07/digital-story-telling-using-web-20/