Biomedical Multimedia Unit News

This is probably old news, but while looking up possible technologies for streaming my friends’ wedding to another friend overseas, I found this:
http://www.dimdim.com/
It’s an open source web-conferencing tool – which is kind of cool in itself, but he thing which pricked my interest was that it’s already been integrated into moodle! Watch the launch video [...]

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I came across this article on Wired which reviews the major players in the social networking arena (as far as students may be concerned).
It’s an interesting array – perhaps the audit trails could supply some data about usage among our students? I know personally among my peers, it was all myspace until about two months [...]

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I often wonder if we spend too much time worrying about a student’s ability to grasp interaction in our work. It might be that we need to improve the intuitiveness of our interface designs, or it could just be an overzealousness to cater for the lowest-common-denominator student. Surely there’s something to be said for the [...]

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With a large (and increasing?) proportion of University students coming from overseas, I thought this little article about emoticons might be interesting (if not directly pertinent to what we do)…
Emoticons carry cultural baggage

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This interview was broadcast on the Radio National breakfast program in October 2006. In view of our changing student body, I thought it might be of some interest.
Now to the NEO… Never heard of them? They’re a group not easily defined, but one that makes decisions with one thing in mind—themselves. They resent being labelled, [...]

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I confess that I had never thought about the home entertainment value of my medical imaging records until I read this account of how to “geek out with your own body”.   Is this a new twist on an evening of watching someone’s travel slides, do you think? Thanks to Quinn Norton and others in Wired’s biotech [...]

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In an interesting development, Victorian public schools look set to ban YouTube, in an effort to curb ‘cyber bullying’.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21306297-5006785,00.html
So much for person of the year…

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Now, I know this blog is supposed to be about our work, but I like to think that as a group, we share more than just our interests in education and technology. With the recent quandaries as to what is and is not appropriate to post on here, I thought I’d test the boundaries a [...]

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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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