Linking Research and Teaching

A series of papers, Linking research and teaching in Wales, edited by Simon K Haslett (York: Higher Education Academy, 2010) is now available [pdf]. There are three Swansea University papers: David Gill, ‘Collecting Egyptian Antiquity’, considering the use of Web 2.0 technologies in MA modules. Kasia Szpakowska, ‘Problems and practice…

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Google App Inventor. So easy a cat can do it?

According to Google, the Google App Inventor is built on the idea that you do not need to be a developer to build great mobile applications. Instead of code, App Inventor allows you to visually design applications and use blocks to specify application logic.Use the GPS-location sensor to build location…

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For Flash get Frash: How to get Flash on your iHype

“Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer, by comex ( http://twitter.com/comex ). Frash can currently run most Flash programs natively in the MobileSafari browser. Frash currently only runs on the iPad, but support for other devices (3GS+ only due…

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More competition for the iHype

It’s been around for a while but I’ve only just seen this prototype from ASUS. It’s a 12 inch tablet with a docking station that turns into a laptop. Oh and it has USB, a card reader and flash. There is also a 10 inch version as well. Don’t sell…

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Augmented Reality?

Something else from my friends at AMU in Poland. Try this from General Electric 1. Go to http://ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid/#/augmented_reality2. Have your webcam ready3. Print the marker4. Enjoy the fun!

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iPad, schmipdad

Surely you want one of these? It looks as though it’s based on an idea for the XO-2 from the One Laptop per Child XO project It has USB, SD, Flash…..

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The future……..

I was put on to this my Erasmus colleagues at IFA in Poznan. A vision of the future where “video games have become indistinguishable from reality.” An interesting or nightmarish scenario? A point and click multiple choice, e-learning, technology enhanced and supported, virtual reality world? As one character/player/avatar asks”What are…

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Plagiarism the movie

A great learning resource from the University of Bergen. I’ll definately be adding this to my project briefings. The video is in Norwegian, so you might want to watch it at YouTube where you can see the subtitles in English. It also raises the bar on what a learning resource…

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