Biomedical Multimedia Unit News

Announced over the new year, Time’s “Person of the Year” is “You” — that’s also me and everyone. We’re all persons of the year because we’re contributing user-generated content as pro-sumers. The Time edition goes on to profile the aspects of Web 2.0 that have become familiar — YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia, OhMyNews — and some [...]

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Roger sent this over to me and is an interesting direction for the BBC in the UK.
www.news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6290585.stm
“A virtual world which children can inhabit and interact with is being planned by the BBC.”
I am not sure what this ‘channel’ will allow children to actually do … even less clear are educational implications or spin offs, [...]

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Kevin sent this around and is concerned about putting it up on the Blog. (That is perhaps unfair and I just wanted to beat him to it.)
Interesting to see our very own students using YouTube in this way …
Man … look at the amount of food they have …

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Following the entry on 20 Nov 2006 “Amazing Interface”, Billy’s noticed the multi-touch interface in Apple’s iPhone. While it’s still early, since no one’s had a chance to play with an iPhone yet, it’s interesting to note the initial concerns for accessibility that are popping up.
Advances such as this raise questions about accessibility for [...]

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OK, let’s reproduce lectures for flexible learning, but are there more creative ways to think about podcasting in higher education?  ”As a method of distribution, podcasting in likely to have only a minimal impact upon higher education teaching and learning… However, the lack of impact from podcasting as a method of distribution should not lead us into [...]

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I pinched this from the Web Forum’s mailing list a while back - it’s (hopefully) not 100% accurate - else we foolishly have two non-coffee drinkers on staff - but rather amusing.

the show with zefrank: 11-09-06

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