Tag: (Ubiquitous) Computing
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Have PDAs in schools missed the boat?
I remember, as many of us do, when laptops were too heavy to truck around all of the time and phones were amazing when they had a 100 slot phone book. It was in this environment that PDAs seemed to emerge. They could do the basic note taking that many people wanted laptops for and…
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SITE 2006 Early Thursday
Well, the majority of the sessions that I went to yesterday afternoon blew proverbial “buzz word based” chunks. But there was one good session offered, Comparison of Nursing Student Perceptions and Attitudes toward Hybrid & Online Courses (Patti Urso, Bill Chen and Robert Chi). They found that there is a variation in the appeal of…
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Sim school (Melanie Zibit, David Gibson, Bill Halverson)
I decided to try to make notes for this conference on my phone and then use Bluetooth to send them over to the laptop for final prep before I post them online. It seems that even though it’s a bit slower, I’m taking down the important points, as opposed to everything when I’m typing. It’s…
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Mobifest
I caught this on the news – Mobifest and here– and it got me thinking, wouldn’t it be a cool class project to make a 60 second movie about something class related? It would be a pile of work, but certainly worth it.
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TO going WiFi
Engadget is reporting that Toronto Hydro is setting up a WiFi network as a means of reading smart meters. While this is potentially great for people wanting more ubiquitous WiFi, I’m sure that TO like any other major city with a residential core has a load of open access points already. Certainly this will be…