Entries about Web 2.0
7th Innovation Forum: RIA applications, a new paradigm in web application development
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On Friday April 17, 2009 we have celebrated the 7th Innovation Forum that focused us to understand from a non-technical, clear and direct examples, and what is referred to the new concept called RIA (Rich Internet Applications). We heard some time to discuss this concept with the world of Web applications without knowing in many [...]
Continue Reading...Mobile Virtual Communities
Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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“Integration of location-based services with mobile social networking sites ( MSNS)” In the near future, once the controversy and limits of privacy and confidentiality arising from GPS-based applications, such as Google Latitude, have been overcome, we will increasingly see people using social networks (whether personal, professional or educational, etc.) from their mobile devices for a [...]
Continue Reading...Facebook for teaching and learning
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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Co-authors: Peter Bihr and Thomas Praus Introduction Social Communities have grown rapidly over the last years, offering people the chance to publish personal information and connect with each other. The biggest social community today is Facebook with more than 120 million members. Due to the myriad possibilities to use Facebook, there many ways to support [...]
Continue Reading...Collabowriting & Self- and Peer-Assessment
Sunday, September 21st, 2008
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To work in teams and being evaluated by your peers are two practices with an enormous potential and relevance for individual motivation as well as for being able to contribute value to an organisation. Both practices are being used in e-learning and the following paragraphs will introduce some approaches and cases. Stanford considered collaborative writing (here refered [...]
Continue Reading...Live Video via Internet for educational purposes
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
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Vision of live video Only 15 years ago, only big tv stations could afford to transmit a live video signal via e.g. satellite from a live venue (e.g. a football stadium) to a studio from where it was broadcasted via antenna or cable to a range of spectators. Now, live video has become one of [...]
Continue Reading...Connecting the conversations: syndication & aggregation
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
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Web 2.0 is all about community, collaboration and conversation. It is for this reason that another term for Web 2.0 is social media. Conversations online are not new: Forums and discussion boards have been places of discourse for years. However, within Web 2.0 discussions are not longer bound to one space, they can travel freely between [...]
Continue Reading...Micro-Blogging
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
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Named after blogging, micro blogging – or micro media – has evolved into the Next Big Thing within the internet scene. Micro blogging means posting extremely short snippets of information – just like in blogs, the most recent post is displayed at the top of the page, the older ones are displayed below. While there [...]
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- Facebook for teaching and learning (5)
- 10th Innovation Forum: Augmented Reality, immersive cutting edge Technologies (5)
- 9th Innovation Forum: Immersive Spaces (Second Life) (4)
- Video – Future interfaces (3)
- Learning in a mobile society (3)
- Video – 10th Innovation Forum: Augmented Reality (2)
- 3rd Innovation Forum: Game-based learning (1)
- The Semantic Web in Science and Education (1)
- Video – History of the Internet in 7 minutes (1)
- Video – 11th Innovation Forum: Funiversity
- 11th Innovation Forum: Funiversity, Can University be fun?
- Video – 10th Innovation Forum: Augmented Reality
- Video – Nokia’s Vision of Augmented Reality
- 10th Innovation Forum: Augmented Reality, immersive cutting edge Technologies
- Video – The eBook of the Future
- Video – 9th Innovation Forum: Immersive spaces (Second Life)
- The Voice as dynamising element of communications and learning: applications and opportunities
- Video – Google Wave, the new “wave” over Internet
- 9th Innovation Forum: Immersive Spaces (Second Life)
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video of the 11st Innovation Forum celebrated May 14 where Lluis Pastor, Director of the Studies of Communication Sciences and Information of the UOC, introduced the concept of Funiversity. (video in Catalan)
January, 22 took place the 10th Innovation Forum on the topic Augmented Reality (AR), where a team of experts presented the possibilities and advantages of this new technology as well as a few cases and real experiences developed through it. (Video in Catalan)
This concept allows to you to experience immersion and effortless navigation in an Augmented Reality environment. New types of interactions involving near-to-eye displays, gaze direction tracking, 3D audio, 3D video, gesture and touch. Through these new types of social linkages people will be connected in innovative ways between the physical and digital worlds.
Well, or at least where I would like. So e-book should be the future? I believe that it will be much sooner than we think. Could it be that this is what Apple has in mind? Soon we will know definitely…
On September, 17 2009 took place on 9th Innovation Forum that led to thematic Immersive spaces focused on virtual world Second Life, where we could explore the different possibilities and opportunities offered by this virtual environment for learning and creating virtual communities. (video in spanish).
http://www.innovauoc.org/flowplayer/uoc_secondlife.flvTo define it quickly is not easy, perhaps by the new concept that involves, and the best in the first instance it seems a good solution to use the definition of Google in this regard: “Wave is a set of protocols, platforms and open source products, which possibilite meeting services that enable people to create and share content, including to showcase some of its applications to other owners not using standard Web programming.
In reality it is not clear what’s that, or even for what might serve, but this video about 15 of its main characteristics is a good approach to it and we’ll say that he has come to revolutionize the Internet throughout 2010, hoping to have and received the same success that had Gmail some time ago. Everyone in the draw your own conclusions.
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