eLeumcongres Maastricht

Zoals ik in een eerdere post al vermeldde, organiseert de universiteit van Maastricht 2 x per jaar het eLeumcongres rond een bepaald thema. Hiervoor nodigen zij een aantal interne sprekers uit, vergelijkbaar met de opzet van de Roadshows van Avans, aangevuld met een externe spreker.
Inmiddels zijn er een tweetal links beschikbaar.
De voorlaatste bijeenkomst ging over de do's en don't van elektronisch toetsen. Voor de link naar het programma, de sprekers en de presentaties klik hier

De laatste bijeenkomst had als onderwerp "web 2.0: de interactieve student". Meer info over het programma daarvan, de sprekers en de gehouden presentaties vind je hier

Smart Table

Krijgt het leren met hoofd, hart en hand er een nieuwe dimensie bij? Als het aan de leverancier van de Smart Table ligt wel. Zij presenteren de digitale tafel als een nieuwe manier van leren met je handen. Leren is kinderspel. Kijk maar naar het promofilmpje op YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_FRmYXtneQ

About "The Mother of All Demos"

The most spectacular computer demo ever, from the most innovative computer lab of all time. In 90 minutes, Engelbart and his team at SRI moved the world from punch cards to the modern computer interface.Video of the demo.

Wikipedia article on the demo.

About the Engelbart Timeline Mural

A graphical chronology 1925-2015 of events that led up to/followed from Engelbart's 1968 demo. By Eileen Clegg, artist and Valerie Landau, writer. Signed copies of the mural (3' x 21') are available for sale at http://www.engelbartmural.com/.

Smart touch, update

Soms zijn er wat kleine innovaties die handig zijn. Ik zou zeggen, updaten onze smartboards bij Avans!



Bron: http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/02/smart-adds-touch-recognition-to-smart-boards/

Meer info bij Smart

Implementing Wiki-Based Collaborative Strategies in Online Courses

Research from the University of Central Florida shows that faculty and students had a positive overall experience using wikis as a collaborative tool for online classes. The wiki technology improves the ease of collaboration outside the classroom and increasingly engages students with content. Despite technical and logistical issues, faculty can implement wikis successfully with necessary orientation sessions and well-prepared assignment protocols.

A video is worth a thousand googles...

by Keene Haywood

Google is more than a name, its a verb in the dictionary. It is to internet search the way Xerox was used to refer to photocopying. The term is now part of our everyday vernacular. As ingrained as "googling" is for finding information on the internet, its interesting to think about what children consider when they want to find something on the web. Suprisingly, its not Google, nor Yahoo! or MSN for that matter...actually, its a part of Google, but what they are increasingly using is YouTube. Yep, video search. Show me a video and a thousand words or more can be "seen" in a single search find. The NYTimes covers this interesting phenonmenon in this story.Wibe7.tv. This is a search engine specifically for YouTube and is explained more thoroughly in this ReadWriteWeb post. Expect to see more of visual search (oh bad pun!) in the near future and soon you too may be seeing just what you were looking for. So I ask you to stop and ponder for a moment the search landscape we now currently use. Try to imagine the future 5 or 10 years from now as broadband is more prevalent and even basic computers are more powerful than high end desktops we now have. And then you may see just how visual search matures and becomes the predominant way we find information on the web. Granted, visual search can't be used for everything, but increasingly, there is enough content, covering enough subjects captured through video that this is now a legitimate search tool. Expect to see it showing up more and more when our current crop of grade school kids hit the universities in a few year's time and they turn in research papers on E-Ink paper with embedded video. Enter