"I really hope that we start to see some genuine and significant competition for the iPad. This will not only force apple to NOT sit back and relax but force them to continue to innovate. I have been using the iPad on a recen trip and the large…"
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Dwayne Harapnuik replied to Kenny Jones's discussion Interesting article on iPad's depute in Japan in the group iPad Users Group
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Interesting article on iPad's depute in Japan
Business News http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/business/news/20100703p2a00m0na025000c.htmlPeople, companies putting iPad to unforeseen uses, suggesting device may change our livesAbout a month has passed since Apple Inc.'s iPad debuted in Japan. While sales numbers have not been revealed, the tablet computer's various new uses are coming to light. Is there a possibility that the iPad will change society as…See More
Kenny Jones commented on Dwayne Harapnuik's blog post Kindle Failed Tests at Several Colleges. Will iPads Do Better?"The iPad could succeed where the Kindle failed if it offers a richer interface experience, these might be defined as the following:
1. if it is aesthetically evocative, in a way parallel to a beautifully designed book.
2. if it can engage the…"
Dwayne Harapnuik replied to Kenny Jones's discussion Learning, the iPad and Cloud 2 Computing in the group Its About the Learning"Great post! Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
I think the key thing for academics to make note of from Benioff's post is that industry is starting to realize how much more functionality comes with the maturing Cloud (I hate to call it…"
Kenny Jones commented on Brad Ovenell-Carter's blog post A Bicycle for the Mind"Nice image reference to the Artist Joseph Beuys at 0:44. Especially since he was all about "taking down the brick and mortar of schools" at least as they reference the "walls" that stop the cycle of learning. Also nice overall…"
Kenny Jones added a discussion to the group Its About the Learning
Learning, the iPad and Cloud 2 Computing
Here is a great analysis by Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. What can academics glean from this "enterprise software" forecast? What would an educational version of this vision look like - where a "Facebook" model is the instructor's planning and implementation environment?What does the "Push" function look like in the academy - where feeds, profiles and groups ensure that "everything I care about and need to know is pushed to me. . . "?Kenny JonesCloud 1…See More
Kenny Jones replied to Dwayne Harapnuik's discussion Introductions"Welcome, we are glad to have you. I hope to hear about your interests and experiences in converged learning.
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Kenny Jones posted a blog postEreaders, a Librarian's Rant - School Library Journal
Though this librarian's rant may be premature, it is a validating article based on some current ACU Mobile Learning proposals. I think he has been hanging around CIRCL - "Picture a device that’s more a social access mechanism through text than a simple display."Some great main points:1. "The next evolution of the ereader should go beyond the artifacts of learning to engage the act of learning itself. Not textbook knowledge but what is derived through reading. . . Where printers once produced…See More
Kenny Jones posted a blog postWill Blackboard be an iPad app?
The bottom line (before you read the full article):1. "The danger is that our models fordelivering education will fail to keep up with changes in how consumer and entertainment content is delivered." "A failure to have our educational and course content delivered throughan app, whether it be an iPad, iPhone or Android app, will mean that our course content is a little less relevant to our students. 2. A loss of relevance equals a loss of attention, and a loss of attention equals a loss of…See More
Kenny Jones replied to Kenny Jones's discussion Mobile Devices vs. Lectures: Let's Ban Lectures! in the group Its About the Learning"Excellent Schank youtube connection - here, here to getting rid of the multiple choice test (though I did experiment with making a MC test that had all questions partially correct and the learner had to find the best comparison between an artifact…"
Dwayne Harapnuik replied to Kenny Jones's discussion Mobile Devices vs. Lectures: Let's Ban Lectures! in the group Its About the Learning"Interesting post!
To ban lecture one would first have to ban tests and in particular multiple choice tests. Former Yale and Stanford professor and learning theorist Roger Schank offers the following short youtube video explaining why multiple…"
Kenny Jones added a discussion to the group Its About the LearningMobile Devices vs. Lectures: Let's Ban Lectures!
http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3870346/Laptops-vs-Lectures-Lets-Ban-Lectures.htmLaptops vs. Lectures: Let's Ban Lectures!By Mike ElganMarch 12, 2010Lecturing professors nowadays face a room full of students paying full attention -- to their laptops. One science professor achieved minor YouTube fame recently when a video surfaced showing him freezing a…See More
Kenny Jones replied to Dwayne Harapnuik's discussion Introductions"I am an Artist and Associate Prof in Art and Design at ACU, also Foundations Director (coordinating the foundational content for our Art and Design programs). I am a '82 grad from ACU and have moved back from Tennessee (MFA U.T. Knoxville) as…"
Kenny Jones posted a blog postWired Magazine demo @ SXSW* & the design of eTextbooks?
http://vimeo.com/10181344 - watch this video on an iPad dummy demo of a evocative eText layout-I noticed that visual design's relationship to text content is still crucial to telling the story, i.e. typography and photos.-Love the idea of "leveraging the poster" as a way to rid ourselves of the 2-sheets-of-paper-pdf artifact.-Interesting metaphor for text, "we are creating storyart, like a movie or music."so the question here is relevance, do you think…See More
Kenny Jones commented on Dwayne Harapnuik's group Its About the Learning"I am interested in the AR (augmented reality) and gesture interface components of the Horizon report. AR promises to put the mobile in mobile learning - and with the iPad I think we've jumped a crucial hurdle - the postcard window is expanded,…"
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- Associate Professor of Art, Foundations Director
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- Art and Design
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- http://kennyjonesart.com
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- As an artist and educator my interests lie in creative problem solving and process-oriented thinking, especially as it relates to embodied skills, i.e. thinking with your hands. I am especially interested in the "how" of the mobile device - its potential to offer a new platform for envisioning and simulating ways of seeing. Keywords include: applied aesthetics, consilience, embodied cognition, envisioning information (infoviz), visual studies. I also maintain informal blogsites for Augmented reality, iPad & iPhone, info: http://kjar.posterous.com/, http://kjipad.posterous.com/, kjiphone.posterous.com/
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Ereaders, a Librarian's Rant - School Library Journal
Though this librarian's rant may be premature, it is a validating article based on some current ACU Mobile Learning proposals.
I think he has been hanging around CIRCL - "Picture a device that’s more a social access mechanism through text than a simple display."
Some great main points:
1. "The next evolution of the ereader should go beyond the artifacts of learning to engage the act of learning itself. Not textbook knowledge but what is derived through reading. . .… Continue
I think he has been hanging around CIRCL - "Picture a device that’s more a social access mechanism through text than a simple display."
Some great main points:
1. "The next evolution of the ereader should go beyond the artifacts of learning to engage the act of learning itself. Not textbook knowledge but what is derived through reading. . .… Continue
Posted on March 25, 2010 at 4:19pm
Will Blackboard be an iPad app?
The bottom line (before you read the full article):
1. "The danger is that our models for delivering education will fail to keep up with changes in how consumer and entertainment content is delivered."
"A failure to have our educational and course content delivered through an app, whether it be an iPad, iPhone or Android app, will mean that our course content is a little less relevant to our students. …
Continue
1. "The danger is that our models for delivering education will fail to keep up with changes in how consumer and entertainment content is delivered."
"A failure to have our educational and course content delivered through an app, whether it be an iPad, iPhone or Android app, will mean that our course content is a little less relevant to our students. …
Continue
Posted on March 20, 2010 at 9:56pm
Wired Magazine demo @ SXSW* & the design of eTextbooks?
http://vimeo.com/10181344 - watch this video on an iPad dummy demo of a evocative eText layout
-I noticed that visual design's relationship to text content is still crucial to telling the story, i.e. typography and photos.
-Love the idea of "leveraging the poster" as a way to rid ourselves of the 2-sheets-of-paper-pdf artifact.
-Interesting metaphor for text, "we are creating…
ContinuePosted on March 17, 2010 at 3:05pm
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- At 10:31am on March 18, 2010,
Michael M. Grant said… - Kenny, thanks for the hello and the kind words for ViralNotebook. I am planning a sabbatical for the fall semester to study mobile learning, and I hope to come visit ACU to see first-hand the great things you guys are doing.
~michael
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