TO SEE how profoundly the book business is changing, watch the shelves. Next month IKEA will introduce a new, deeper version of its ubiquitous “BILLY” bookcase. The flat-pack furniture giant is already promoting glass doors for its bookshelves. The firm reckons customers will increasingly use them for ornaments, tchotchkes and the odd coffee-table tome—anything, that is, except books that are actually […]
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http://youtu.be/gRm44FZNaso Bij Gizmodo kwam ik de HP TopShot LaserJet Pro M275 tegen. Een betaalbare ($399,99) draadloze kleurenlaserprinter waarmee je ook nog eens scans kunt maken van 3D objecten. Klinkt fantastisch, toch? Ja, maar je moet wel even goed de woorden uit elkaar houden: het is een scanner voor 3D objecten, maar de scans zijn gewoon foto’s, dus geen 3D modellen. En […]
It makes only sense that I spend my last post about ALT-C 2011 on the final keynote and final session of the conference. And, although I do understand some of the remarks I’ve heard about the keynote by John Naughton (how cool is it to have your own Wikipedia page?), I did enjoy it. Yes, it was scripted and he read […]
I’ll admit it: I did not know who Dónal FitzPatrick was when I decided to attend his session. I had read the title: “I Have a Blind Student in My Maths/Science Class, Should I panic? How to promote inclusion for blind students” and found that interesting enough to attend. So when he said that he wasn’t going to use slides during […]
Het filmpje op YouTube is al van een jaar geleden, maar ik zag het pas afgelopen week bij Google Earth Blog toen zij er naar verwezen: offline gebruik van Google Earth. Het idee is dat je ergens bent waar je geen toegang tot internet hebt (een veldopdracht op school bijvoorbeeld) en dan toch een (vooraf gedownload) deel van de aardbol kunt […]
It was a shame that only a small number of people had managed to find their way to the The Bragg Cluster for the session titled “Standards-based Assessment – Creating Innovative, Interesting, Interoperable Resources Using QTIv2.1” by Sue Milne, Niall Barr and Graham Smith. It may have been the great number of steps that you have to climb to get to […]
Dragos Ciobanu, Neil Morris and Alina Secara showed how at the University of Leeds, they are experimenting with Adobe Connect Pro. Here too, they luckily choose to just demonstrate instead of explain in words only. We had received the URL for their Adobe Connect room so anyone with a laptop, iPad, iPhone, Android device could participate during the session. Alina Secara […]
Simon Booth from the University of Stirling and Colin Dalziel from Pebble Learning gave an overview of the use of LTI as part of the ceLTIc project. LTI stands for Learning Tool Interoperability and is a mechanism with which it should be easier to connect different systems. For example, you have Moodle as your VLE and want to use PeddelPad. Through […]
In his presentation titled “The Distributed, Web 2.0 VLE? Incorporating External Content Platforms into the Institutional VLE”, Ian Glover from the City University London talked about the advantages/disadvantages of using external tools in combination with the institutional VLE and the work they are doing to help staff use these external tools. Advantages of using these tools are there are many good […]
Ik kreeg een mail van Tom Bakker met een verwijzing naar een tweet van hem over hoe ik de gratis ruimte van mijn Dropbox account eenvoudig kon verdubbelen. In mijn geval van bijna 10GB (het maximum dat je met referrals kunt verzamelen) naar 20GB! Het is heel eenvoudig: Dropbox heeft een actie waarbij ze de gratis ruimte + de bonus per […]