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Welcome to Andy's first blog what's this blog going to cover Technology to support learning Pedagogy of supporting learning with technology Communities of practice Some fun stuff to you didn't know about me. Why Andy's Black Hole well it was going to be called Andy's Ramblings from edge but Katrina Lambert came up with a better suggestion . what's it for? A place Andy Can dump all the things he come across that might be useful to those people living the dream of promoting e-learning.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

A while ago I posted on the pew story on the internet replacing newspapers for adult and even surpassing TV for young people. Original post I made is here I as a post script posed the question what is television any more which Terry Freedman commented he liked the question . The video below goes some way to answer the question .
This link came from regular Blog contributor Bob Harrison and links nicely with earlier post .Watch video of the presentation by Mike Wesch University of Kansas to Library of Congress. Great piece of work worth a look. Youtube is a insight into one future of broadcast media.
[ YouTube video ]
Mike Also produced the machine is watching us video which Ive blogged before. [ YouTube video ]
I want to be one of his students
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Labels: "broadcast media", web 2.0, youtube

Saturday, January 03, 2009

Homework is fun on an iPod touch

Nice to see this Australian work using the Ipod touch my mobile favourite at the moment (subject to change ) link here
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Friday, January 02, 2009

storage storage and backup

The historians I know are concerned the amount of digtal artefacts (photos) stored on standalone home computers. I put photo's on Flickr and store them on a extra portable hard drives. but if your storage of photos on facebook got chopped how much would you lose or future historian lose.
Great blog post on this subject from Gina Minks http://gminks.edublogs.org/2009/01/01/how-important-will-storage-education-be-in-2009/ linking to Brian Hendersons blog http://powerwindows.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/you-dont-know-what-you-got-til-its-gone-cinderell/
I came across the EMC Academic Alliance read there white papers on Digital Universe and »Managing Storage »
only on UK institution is a mmeber Glasgow Caledonian University but I will look into it. There comment on developing a generic storage currciculm might be of increasing importance to us all.
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Labels: disaster recovery, flickr, storage

Thursday, January 01, 2009

D2L Launches Mobile Learning Environment -- Campus Technology

A sign of maturing mlearning launch of application that works with a learning platform.
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/07/d2l-launches-mobile-learning-environment.aspx
one must remember how succesful blackberry in US education market . A development to watch.
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Happy New Year prediction

Mobile is already here (last years prediction) this years one is location,location . The integration of GPS is the utility thats time has come.
•context •location
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Data cost threaten social networking sites

Telegraph (uk) article on falling ad revenue threatening viability of sites in New Year. Blogged from my nokia so just search the link yourself.
-- Sent from my mobile device
Andy Black
"Where Technology and Pragmatism Meet" blog http://andysblackhole.blogspot.com
"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas" Victor Hugo.
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Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas present

[image: photo-717298.jpg] No not really but a "gadgetdom" would make interesting present. Merry Christmas . Photo by Steve (official photographer) at Mlearn2008.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

OLPC Nicholas Negroponte visit to Colombia

The OLPC programme has caused much debate you might be interested in seeing Nicholas Negroponte on a visit deploying the OLPC in Columbia. No comment you decided
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There are some games where cheering for the other side feels better than winning.

Great story the power of email the cloud and the crowd good on you sport fans thanks @theheroworkshop and digital maverick for putting this on twitter
http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3789373
cheer the other side this Christmas!
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Internet Overtakes Newspapers as News Source Item from Pew research

Item from Pew research no surprise here but another sign of changing times. my only question is how do you define television any more
link at http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1066/internet-overtakes-newspapers-as-news-source
some key graphs below.
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this great table from Pew shows for the young the internet outstrips TV
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Labels: india, m-learning, m-learning handheld, mobile, SMS, US

US SMS growth suggest wider growth of mobile globally

Thanks to Liam Lowe for this
Portio Research have a new research report out which states: link here
 The mobile messaging market is expected rake in $130 billion in revenues by the end of the year, and is on pace to climb to $224 billion by 2013. At that level, mobile messaging will make up 60 percent of all non-voice service revenues.
At least some of those increased revenues might be due to the higher price of a text message and operators' push to encourage more bundled services at the point of sale.
Interestingly enough, although the U.S. is considered late to the SMS party, Americans now send double the number of messages that Europeans average each month.
Now its seems this data is quite robust and interestingly other data suggests qwerty keyboards on mobiles are more common in the US.
Has the American consumer between the network confusion (caused  US telecoms) and got the mobile bug .
From studying google alerts for mobile over 18 months its seems from UK and European domination the most often picked up mobile learning leads are the US and India.
Predictions for 2009 the world is mobile not. The UN report earlier this year suggesting the next billion internet users will be mobile internet users back this up.
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Labels: india, m-learning, m-learning handheld, mobile, SMS, US
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