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EXPLOITING
THE
WOW FACTOR

Michael Coghlan
eLearning11
Creative Commons (CC) licensed music
7/12/11
by Lohstana David
found at JAMENDO

10 YEARS AGO (2001)
• BLOGS • VIRTUAL CLASSROOMS
• WIKIS • FACEBOOK
• PODCASTS • IPADS
• RSS FEEDS • IPHONES
• YOUTUBE • EBOOKS
• TWITTER

EXPLOITING THE WOW FACTOR TO
ENHANCE TEACHING PRACTICE
The WOW factor is very
much underrated when
attempting to engage
people in educational
technology. I was always
hearing ' you can't let the
technology' lead, and yet all
my most exciting moments,
and those I observed in
others, were when that it is
exactly what we did - we
followed the technology
FOR ITS OWN SAKE and
discovered wonderful
things!

Andrew Douch
Yr 12 Biology Teacher

unleash the technology on students –
let them decide what could be done with it –
let them play (FUN)

THEORIES ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
1. Technological determinism: technology is an external
agent that acts upon people and changes society.
2. Social construction of technology (SCOT): it is human
decisions and processes that create the technologies we
have, and that the prevailing social milieu has an
influential role in the decisions we make about how we
use that technology.
3. A middle ground between people and machine is the
theory of Social Shaping. Nancy Baym refers to
technologies having ‘logics’ that influence how we use
them. Nicholas Carr calls them ‘ethics’:
“the message that a tool or medium transmits into
the minds and culture of its users”

“We shape our tools
and thereafter our
tools shape us.”
(McLuhan)

“ALL GOOD
TECHNOLOGY IS
INDISTINGUISHABLE
FROM MAGIC.”
(Arthur C Clarke)

Creative Commons Image from dibytes

QR Codes

Make your own
QR Codes at
QRStuff.com

Today’s Meeting – Your Feedback
http://todaysmeet.com/elearning11

MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra, , Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate
• Aggregation Tools: RSS, the hashtag (#)
• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/
• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)
• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/
• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/
• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/

RSS Feeds

Feed from TAFESA PodZone

Flickr Badge

WORDLE
Visual Data Analysis

http://www.wordle.net/

MAGIC TOOLS
• Centra, Adobe Connect, Blackboard Collaborate
• Aggregation Tools: RSS, the hashtag (#)
• Wordle http://www.wordle.net/
• Phone to Web Services (eg media to Flickr,
Facebook)
• QR Codes http://qrpedia.org/
• Twitter Trends - http://trendsmap.com/
• Tag Galaxy http://taggalaxy.de/

QR Codes

Make your own
QR Codes at
QRStuff.com

See also RFID tags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

OTHER COOL TOOLS
• Flickr
• POV (Point of View) Technology
• Eyejot (video mail) http://www.eyejot.com/
• Slideshare (sharing ppt slides)
http://www.slideshare.net
• Screenr (creating screencasts)
http://www.screenr.com/
• Wolfram Alpha (numerical search engine)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/

TEACHING WITH
http://teachingwithflickr.wikispaces.com/

Annotating Images using the Notes Tool

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/ha112/234233755/,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikecogh/4090354867/

Choose Your Own Adventure

See http://www.flickr.com/photos/daviddmuir/1924752950/

POV Glasses

http://blip.tv/alexander-hayes/cleaning-a-paintbrush-1042481

POV GLASSES IN ACTION

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrGbfYkuu8E

An apprentice using POV technology in remote Australia
fitting service gauges.

THE APP WORLD
These are MAGIC:

• SoundHound
• My Tracks
• Google Goggles
• Flightradar 24
• Etc etc

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON?

a summary of recent Horizon
Reports 2010/2011

TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less
Mobile Devices
Examples include:
• Google Sky Map for Android platforms, which
serves as a mobile planetarium
• History: Maps of the World, containing full-colour, historical
maps
• iSeismometer - capable of measuring vibrations and tremors
• Reference works such as the Australian Oxford Dictionary and
the Aussie Slang Dictionary, featuring more than 700 common
Australian phrases.
• Forklift Driving Course (SA)

TIME TO ADOPTION – 1 yr or less
Mobile Internet Devices
The knfbReader Mobile is designed
to help those with learning
disabilities or visual impairment. The user
snaps a picture of text using his or her mobile
phone and the phone converts the text to
speech.

TIME TO ADOPTION –
1 yr or less

eBooks
• Flipboard – a magazine featuring you and your
social network
• Project Gutenberg (Aust)

TIME TO ADOPTION –
1 yr or less
eBooks

TIME TO ADOPTION – 2 to 3 years
Augmented Reality (AR)
Bringing Back the Berlin Wall


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loZtR05O0uU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9KPJlA5yds

The future is already
here — it's just not
evenly distributed.
(William Gibson)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb0pMeg1UN0

CONVERGENCE
TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE

The tendency for different technological
systems to evolve towards performing similar tasks.
eg mobile phone + Internet = Smart Phone


http://www.vimeo.com/2341387

Game Based Learning

Climate Change Game

Game Based Learning

Trading Around the World

Game Based Learning

Virtual Knee Surgery

Gesture Based Computing
Relevance for Teaching and Learning
The kinaesthetic nature of gesture-based computing
will very likely lead to new kinds of teaching or
training simulations that look, feel, and operate
almost exactly like their real-world counterparts.
The ease and intuitiveness of a gestural interface
makes the experience seem very natural, and even
fun, making them relevant for learning at any age
or level of study..

THE FUTURE OF SHOPPING

http://www.youtube.com/v/xyBXjjZa9qE

VIRTUAL AUTOPSY TABLE

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6866296


http://www.youtube.com/user/oblongtamper

Sixth Sense Technology

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Examples: http://www.google.com/publicdata/home


http://www.ushahidi.com/


http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/

Learning Analytics

Purdue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxYewO9iAgw University

Learning Analytics

SNAPP - University of Wollongong

Learning Analytics

Commercial Application - Mixpanel.com

THE MOST IMPORTANT TOOL
OF ALL
IS
YOU!!!

JanneM @ flickr.com

WHAT DO YOU DO
WITH ALL
OF THIS??

Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens will
enter places of work and learning highly connected to a network of
peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual learning, and
collaboration. They may expect to be able to make use of these personal
learning and social networks, and the technologies that make these
networks possible, in their places of work or study. These web 2.0
citizens operate in a world that is open and mobile, and they are unlikely
to accept authority that is automatically assigned to a position. Their
world is flat and devoid of hierarchy. In a world where information about
their areas of interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will
place greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond
classroom or workplace boundaries, and knowing where to get the
knowledge and information they need, is more important than having
that knowledge and information themselves.

http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

THANK YOU

• Australian – New Zealand 2010 Horizon Report
• Global Report 2011
• Looking to the Horizon Wiki (created by Marlene Manto)

Creative Commons (CC) licensed music Michael Coghlan
by Lohstana David michaelc@chariot.net.au
found at JAMENDO

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