http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/home/ http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/elearning-leaders-graham-clark-talking-about-qr-codes-and-learning/#PageComment_2957 Very informative, thank you Graham! Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:39:03 +0000 Juliet Buchanan http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/elearning-leaders-graham-clark-talking-about-qr-codes-and-learning/#PageComment_2957 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/nbn-and-elearning/#PageComment_2955 So many perspectives on NBN implications......a pleasure to read!...and I learnt a few things :) Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:05:40 +0000 Janet Fearns http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/nbn-and-elearning/#PageComment_2955 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/the-future-of-this-blog/#PageComment_692 I'm still not sure about prezi and the zooming. I'll keep on playing. XMind looks great. Downloading it at the moment. I use mindmaps a lot, and in the past I've been using Freemind. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:55:16 +0000 Robin Petterd http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/the-future-of-this-blog/#PageComment_692 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/the-future-of-this-blog/#PageComment_691 Slideshare seems to have a good following (I didn't know about Prezi -- I guess the zoom function is a selling point). I've also been trying XMind http://www.xmind.net/ for mindmapping. Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:55:25 +0000 Claudine Chionh http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/the-future-of-this-blog/#PageComment_691 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/idea-s-for-educational-trials-of-the-national-broadband-network-nbn/#PageComment_640 Thank You, Roger. Before the expression of interest happened, I had been planning a blog post about what I thought the NBN might mean to education and some those ideas are similar to what you have outlined. The expression of interest I didn't get done was the one about the need for new types of facilitation skills. Do you know what has been happening in the eResearch area in Australia ? a lot of the focus has been on giving access to infrastructure like new supercomputers which reminded me of your idea's about shared access to 3D printers. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:40:01 +0000 Robin Petterd http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/idea-s-for-educational-trials-of-the-national-broadband-network-nbn/#PageComment_640 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/idea-s-for-educational-trials-of-the-national-broadband-network-nbn/#PageComment_639 Nice work Robin. I've also been giving this some thought... I wondered about there being 4 broad ways that the NBN may facilitate learning: 1. Greater bandwidth to campuses. Enabling access to rich media educational services (eg Open Education Resources, global collaborative projects…) for larger numbers of users. 2. High speed connections between campuses. Could allow for some campuses to be ‘hubs’ for specialist services such as a 3D printer or 3D virtual worlds. 3. High speed links to students and staff at home. Could allow streaming video from campus to home, video conferencing between staff and students, access to campus virtual classes… 4. High speed connection to global educational services/sites requiring high data volumes such as supercomputer modelling. Too simplistic perhaps... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:15:15 +0000 Roger Stack http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/idea-s-for-educational-trials-of-the-national-broadband-network-nbn/#PageComment_639 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/serious-games-xmedia-sydney-200/#PageComment_346 Thank you for the comment Roger. The sort activity you are talking where it's about transfer of skills from gaming into other parts of learners lives is rich with possibilities Suppose the problem is finding games that teachers see as being relevant to the workplace outcomes of Poly and VET. Using cheap existing resources is one the key's. What was Neverwinter Night like tomod ? do you think say a group of business students would be able to do it ? I should do a video interview with you sometime about the work you have doing with Second Life and Games. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:46:50 +0000 Robin Petterd http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/serious-games-xmedia-sydney-200/#PageComment_346 http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/serious-games-xmedia-sydney-200/#PageComment_11 Great post. I agree about the area being young - and the need for differentiating some categories for what is developing in this space. My own experience has been more with using existing game engines (eg Neverwinter Nights) to create learning experiences for different purposes and outcomes. I'd like to see more educators and students working together at what might be called the low end (entry point?) and develop some game-based learning enviroments and tasks using cheap existing resources. I think educators can also help students to transfer skills they are picking up in 'AAA' RTS games so that they can apply them their other learning, work and life - not to mention to 'serious game' design... I'd love to set up a group to explore this area in the Tas Poly. Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:05:04 +0000 Roger Stack http://www.sproutlabs.com.au/serious-games-xmedia-sydney-200/#PageComment_11