“Xbox is My Generation’s Golf” – The future of Gaming?

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Latitude 42 conducted some research into the future of gamers and gaming. There was definitely some interesting findings, including the move away from ‘computer-centric games to games in which the users environment becomes the game board and this notion of ‘life games’. 75% of respondents would like to see games applied to Learning and Education.

The Future of Gaming: a Portrait of the New Gamers from latddotcom on Vimeo.

For more information on this study check out Latitude’s brief report or website.

iPads for in-lecture polling

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Uni of Adelaide iPads for in-lecture polling. Whist “clickers” faltered due to the need for students to all have one, this simple but clever solutions means the students just put their hand up, and only the lecturer needs the iPad.

See page 13 for the article

http://www.auc.edu.au/tiki-download_file.php?fileId=153

IdeaPaint in teaching space at VicUni

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Dave Cummings at Victoria University is blogging about his Teaching Space project. They’ve just finished doing the walls and floor in IdeaPaint. They have to wait til friday for it to dry/cure before then can use it. But then…. it’ll be cool. Here’s a YouTube about IdeaPaint:

Oui oui! Le Skype is working!

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SkypePilotMay2011
After months of planning and testing, the Skype pilot kicked off today. With slick new high definition web cams, and the help of the “how to” login sheet, the french language students connected with other students in Noumea. And the French conversations began to flow.

While many staff members have had Skype installed and working fine in their offices on their individual managed desktop machines (ie supported centrally by ITS), up until know it has been impossible to intall and use them “en masse” for use by students in an ITS managed teaching computer lab. But, thanks to the hard work of everybody involved (especially Krstan Risteski, ITS Labs Manager and Liz Burns, ITS System team) a special ‘software package’ was developed, tested, tweaked, and re-tested. Now Skype can be remotely installed in labs by ITS Support staff, with the correct network and software settings so that it actually works within the confines of a teaching lab. The only last minute hitch was that each new web-cam purchased by Arts (they are for use in the new Bld 19 Language labs) needed to have the software drivers manually installed, but thanks to Krstan, this was achieved in time also.

Your blog after imporing a bunch of posts

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Here’s part 2 in a video lesson on how to export and import posts. (For part one, scroll down to the previous post.) This video starts with the list of the imported posts, then shows the new blog and how to tidy up your new blog. Shows some features of the new UOW templates as part of this.