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Using Web 2.0 to enhance lectures

By Clive Young, on 18 July 2010

Web 2.0 lectures

A fascinating online booklet showing how Web 2.0 tools can be used by teachers to create ‘interactive lectures’. Provides a quick intro to Glogster, Prezi, Ahead, Typewith.me, Animoto and Photo peach (digital storytelling), Pixon and ToonDoo (comics), GoAnimate, Weebly and Wikispaces. The booklet itself is a great example of the very wonderful Issuu format.

Presentation for Time, Trust and Authority – is Web 2.0 the tool for you?

By Clive Young, on 20 May 2010

My presentation for today’s UCL Digital Humanities event Time, Trust and Authority – is Web 2.0 the tool for you?

Mobile technologies and Web 2.0

By Clive Young, on 22 February 2010

One of the enjoyable workshops at recent JISC/TechDis conference I attended recently was from Lillian Soon and Ron Mitchell from xlearn who linked mobile technologies to inclusively. They first showed text wall, a password-protected webpage that your learners can text to from their mobile phones (you give them a number and a code) and which can be shown to the class as part of a lesson. This is a paid-for tool but would be great (with the right audience!) for brainstorming, gathering questions and so on.

Next up was the tiny JTEK micro DV camera (see right) which costs about £50 and can be hung round your neck. I could immediately think of lots of uses for this for hands-free recording fieldwork, lab processes and so on.

They also demonstrated Ustream which allows free on-the-fly streaming of video and/or audio from a computer or internet-linked mobile device. Could be used for workshops and seminars but perhaps also off-site events such as field trips. If you are interested in audio-only podcasting, audioBoo enables quick uploading of interviews and commentaries captured on, for example, an iPhone.

Finally iPadio takes this even further; you can broadcast (‘phonecast’) from any phone to the Internet live. Here is a quick example I did just now. You phone a freephone number and key in a pin number you get when you register. It uploads almost instantaneously and it adds a (fairly accurate) transcript.

Geotagging – knowing where your photos were

By Matt Jenner, on 20 January 2010

Geotagging photographs has become an increasingly important aspect of development work when distribution of and access to resources are at stake. While we can find a number of Internet-based applications (e.g. Google Earth, Panoramio, Flickr, etc) where to geo-locate images, offline solutions (hardware & software) are still to be made available or little known to many development practitioners.

UCL Geotagged in Google Earth

This report summarises a series of available options. The first group lists GPS-enabled cameras. The second group offers devices which can be directly connected to cameras. The third group includes devices purposely developed to geotag photos, the last group refers to approaches that still work quite well in difficult environments and allow to add latitude, longitude and altitude data to photographs based on matching time stamps of GPS and camera.

source: PPGis.net

For more information on Geotagging have a look at the following links:

Geotag a photo with Google Earth : Geotagging Pictures – Picasa Help

Geotagging – Wikipedia

How to Geotag Your Photos | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Picnik – image editing in your browser

By ltss, on 13 December 2009

PicnikRegular Flickr users may already have used Picnik, but not even be aware of it. Picnik is the  image editing application that opens automatically inside your Flickr account when you click on Edit Photo.

Picnik provides a range of self-explanatory features such as Rotate, Crop, Resize and colour editing.

However, Picnik can also be used as an online photo editor independently of Flickr, you simply upload images directly, work on them then save them locally. A quick and easy-to-use online tool for simple editing if you do not have a copy of Photoshop Elements, Irfanview etc handy.

New Learning Technologies blog

By ltss, on 25 November 2009

A new blog space to share and discuss learning technolgy developments at UCL.