Category: Emerging technologies

  • New Tools & Resources!

    For Mobile Classrooms Readium – with this Chrome extension, it is now possible to read ePubs on a computer. Pixorial – use this a free, web-based video editing platform on any device. It  also has an app and connects to Google Drive for easy storing, editing, and collaborating on videos. Croak.It – record up to…

  • NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition

    NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition

    The 2013 Horizon Report is now available on the New Media Consortium website.  The Horizon Report is a yearly publication which identifies trends and technologies to watch in higher education.  It is definitely something I look forward to reviewing each year.  From the projects website: The NMC Horizon Project is a decade-long research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to…

  • Flipping PDFs!

    I am always online, both at work and at home.  Admittedly, I spend way too much time online some days, but while there, I research and learn quite a bit in my area of interest – web development and related technologies/tools. This week I reviewed a free and rather impressive tool called FlipSnack (http://www.flipsnack.com).  This…

  • Lecture Casting: Echo360 Presentation

    Lecture Casting: Echo360 Presentation

    On Thursday last week I attended a presentation from the folks at Echo360 about their range of lecture capture solutions.  The presentation was hosted down at Camosun College in Victoria.  We were delighted to be invited to attend by our colleagues at the Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning at Camosun. From what I…