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Hot Team: Location Aware Technologies

I’m not sure how this one slipped through the cracks, but we never posted the white paper results from a Hot Team we did in cooperation with Purdue University looking at Location Aware technologies. Chris Millet guided this team through exploring how things like GPS and Google Maps can be used to create teaching and learning opportunities.

Get the white paper and please post any comments you may have.

Hot Team: The Facebook Platform

SN Tag SmallA few months ago, Some of us here at ETS and faculty from the University Libraries were discussing Web 2.0 tools in the contexts of the Libraries. The meeting was really just to get an idea of the types of things they are thinking about and we started discussing the Facebook and the new FB Platform opportunities. The librarians showed us what some other higher education libraries were doing in that space, and we decided to form a Hot Team to look at it so we could understand the potential. Part of the team’s exploration included building a simple library search application. In looking at the it, the team sees some opportunities to mash up learning with the most popular web application among students at the University.

Download the white paper to learn more about the Facebook Platform.

Hot Team: Pachyderm

This was our first hot team. I am at a CIC Learning Technologies meeting and just heard that University of Minnesota is using Pachyderm. I thought about the fact that we never provided a link to that paper. If we were doing this now it would look much different, but it is what it is.

Take a look by downloading the PDF.

Hot Team: Collaborative Writing Tools

wiki tag smallTom Davis recently lead a Hot Team to investigate collaborative writing tools. Tom is uniquely qualified to think about the need for tools that facilitate collaborative content creation and sharing because he actually spends most of his days working from his home in Pittsburgh. For those of you unfamiliar with PA geography, that is a good three hours or so away from most of his teammates here in State College. Tom and the group looked at a couple of tools that can enable online content creation and sharing. The resulting white paper is a quick survey of these tools and provides a nice overview of this new and emerging space. The white paper is modeled after Educause’s “7 Things” series. Take a look and let us know what you think.

Hot Team: Studiocode

Video Tag SmallA few months ago, some faculty from the College of Education approached TLT to talk about their use of a software product called Studiocode. We decided to create a Hot Team to do a thorough analysis of the tool so we could understand what it is all about. The resulting white paper is now available for download.

Essentially, Studiocode is a video editing and analysis package. As Studiocode plays live or pre-recorded video clips, you code them with terms that you define based on your area of interest. You can use these codes to retrieve video segments and build compiled movies. For instance, if you are interested in disruptions in high school classrooms, you could build a set of codes around types of disruptions, demographic information about the students, and their position in the classroom. Once the video clips are encoded in this manner, you can search through them and pull up combinations such as “male students in the back of the classroom who throw objects”. Seconds later Studiocode would produce a customized movie composed of cases where all of those conditions were met. This movie could be saved as a separate file for later analysis or inclusion in a presentation.

In addition to the ability to code and search through files, Studiocode includes video editing, compression, and transcription features. If you transcribe a movie, the transcript becomes searchable, enabling you to compile video segments where certain words or phrases were used. This kind of integrated package has a great potential to streamline video-based research. It can also be used to provide rich feedback to students or for students to compose video essays of their own performance.

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