Following on from last week’s post on augmented reality, watching this video made me realise that AR needs to work differently if it’s going to be realy useful. It’s not enough to be direction and distance aware. The app somehow needs to be able to see the world as humans see it.
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Enter the Dragon
July 29, 2010 - Mobile, Site of the Week -
A quick look at the new Dragon Dictation app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad with some thoughts on why its a useful development.
AR – Reality, but better?
July 28, 2010 - Mobile, Tips and Techniques, Web Tools -
I’ve been having my first foray into the world of augmented reality via the iPhone. Although the current generation of apps looks promising I feel we’re still a away from making AR really exciting, accessible and cool.
Is HTML5 important for education?
June 9, 2010 - Mobile, Web Tools -
A friend recently asked for my thoughts on what impact I thought HTML5 would have on Adobe and the quick answer is I haven’t the foggiest. I have, though been favouriting some blog posts and web stuff about it as I try to catch up with the rest of the world and I though I’d share some. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s a start.
AudioBoo – It must be love!
May 28, 2010 - Equipment, Mobile, Site of the Week, Web Tools -
I’m going all gooey about AudioBoo at the moment. It’s sat around in the perpiphery of my vision for a while now but in the last month or so I’ve started to see it as a really useful addition to my network of tools, especially now I’m a JesusPhone user.
Here’s why I’m gushing…
Eduserv’s 2010 Symposium: The Mobile University
May 20, 2010 - Mobile, Netskills, cpd -
Last week Will , Steve and myself from Netskills went down to this year’s Eduserv Symposium in London. It was on the theme of The Mobile…
igot-U – Easy-peasy GPS Tracking
September 1, 2009 - Equipment, software -
It’s not often I write about bits of kit but I’ve been having a bit of fun with this wee gem for a few days now. The i-gotU tracker has been around for a little while and has previously featured on MerlinJohn but we got our grubby mitts on one last week.
Siemens Fujitsu EDA – into the D-ed Pool!
August 14, 2009 - D-Ed Pool, Equipment -
A while back I wrote a post about the D-ed Pool, the little corner of hell to which are consigned the ICT dead-ends that are an inevitable part of life in education.
It’s had a bit…
Tags: mobile learning
The iSchool Initiative
July 23, 2009 - Site of the Week, Whole School Issues -
Travis Allen is an 18-year old student from Georgia, USA who has started something called the iSchool Initiative. He makes the argument that if all students had the Apple devices running a collection of apps there would be considerable learning, cost-saving and environmental benefits for schools.
The Daily Show on Twitter
March 4, 2009 - Comment - By: Chris