Linked Data Approaches to OERs – the end?
In our nutshell post at the beginning of the project, we said that our tool would ‘extend MIT’s Exhibit tool to allow users to construct bundles of OERs and other online content around playback of...
View ArticleTEL stories event at the Royal Society
Last week Simon and Kate joined Patrick at the final TEL event at the Royal Society to talk about the work done during Ensemble and our follow-on projects. The exhibition was busy throughout the...
View ArticleW3C Publish Case Study on Dance/ViPER
The World Wide Web Consortium, the body responsible for web standards, has published a case study about the Ensemble dance settings — the technology underpinning ViPER. The W3C employs case studies and...
View ArticleThe kitten starts school in January….
As a follow-up to our session with PGCE students (reported here), we have now been to two quite different schools – one a relatively new academy, another a specialist sports college with an interest in...
View ArticleWe’ve Had Kittens!
An early beta of the new AutoKitty has been put up for testing by an inner group of the usual suspects (TM). The new version has a number of user interface enhancements making it easier to use on...
View ArticleSemantic Media @ BBC
On Wednesday 6th February the team (in the form of Simon) were down in Sheppard’s Bush to attended the Semantic Media @ BBC workshop event organised by Queen Mary University London and the BBC, in a...
View ArticleKitten Pad
AutoKitty has been updated to better work with the Apple iPad and other tablets. The new version is currently undergoing testing by Engles (pictured) the project’s chief technology guru, and acting...
View ArticleAnd stop purring at the back
On Thursday Kate and Simon spent an enjoyable couple of hours giving AutoKitty a trial in the classroom. The class of roughly a couple of dozen pupils used PCs and iPads to complete a partially created...
View ArticleAutotKitty Google Code project launched
The source code and documentation for AutoKitty has been made available via a new Google Code project. https://code.google.com/p/autokitty/
View ArticleAutokitty: out in the wild
We’re getting towards the end of our ‘Linked Data for School Science’ project now, and we’ve been taking the tablet-compatibile version of Autokitty out and about, into the partner schools who helped...
View ArticleYouTube storyboards; to use or not to use?
File this one under “musings on software development”… One of the issues that occasionally crops up when coding against established online services, such as Twitter or YouTube, is what to do about the...
View ArticleThe Teaching Machine, updated
In the course of the School Science project we have discovered that an increasing number of schools are bringing iPads into the classroom, either as mobile ‘class sets’ of devices to be used as and...
View ArticleWhat could technology do for us? Streaming media boxes: flipped learning on a...
It has been a while since I wrote anything on this blog. As many of you may know, the Ensemble project ended, and acquired the transitory name ensemble@ljmu, before being formerly renamed REd-Tech....
View ArticleGamification of gamification
One of the more interesting experiments of the Ensemble project was the turning of semantic data on education philosophers (as taught to students of education) into a Trumps style card deck. Now that...
View ArticleWhat could technology do for us? Immersive experiences
Television history documentaries used to be simple. Take one respected historian, stand him or her on a rock with an ancient ruin dominating the background, then ask them to talk enthusiastically while...
View ArticleSemantic Web meets RSS meets students
Over the Summer I wrote some code as part of a project with Dr. Louise Platt and Jackie Fealey here at LJMU. We were fortunate to be able to draw on the talents of a very enthusiastic and hard-working...
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