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2013 Gartners Hype Cycle – Emergent Technologies
2013 Gartner Hype Cyle – Emergent Technology
Trends in eLearning – Week 4 – 18 Feb 2014
This week we did a recap of a few issues before our presentations next week!!!! Kevin asked everyone to confirm which topic they picked and what they were using to present the information. I informed him I was looking at the Virtual assistant and I wanted to use an animated presentation website as I have […]
Moovly
My experience of trying Moovly was a positive one. I originally recorded a presentation using a voice over but after peer feed back I re-recorded it as the voice over was rushed. All in all I did two recordings, see here, and think the second one was definitely worth the effort. Moovly is a video […]
The 7-Day Digital Diet
Wayne T. (2014), The 7-Day Digital Diet, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/fashion/digital-detox-email-smartphone-social-media.html?_r=0, The New York Times, Published FEB. 7 2014, accessed 15 February 2014 In class discussed on 11 February 2014 Kevin refereed to this article in the New York Times. it was about a journalist who restricted his use of technology, referring to the disconnection model, for […]
Trends in eLearning – Week 3 – 11 Feb 2014
This week we discussed Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how thery fit in to the education system in general. Most of the discussion was in favour of MOOC as they give students access to reputable colleges without having to be on campus. they can be done in the student free time giving greater flexibility […]
Speech regocnition translation
Here is a YouTube clip of Microsoft’s Chief Research Officer Richard Rashid demonstrating a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into computer-generated Chinese language.
Virtual Assistants Enter the Enterprise
Aquino, J. (2012). VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS ENTER THE ENTERPRISE (Vol. 16, pp. 30-34): Information Today Inc. This article explores several virtual digital assistant, which are Nina – Siri – Lexee – Sophia, telephone applications. They are voice activated systems via telephone and can be used to book flights, make hotel reservations, retrieve bank balance, produce sales […]
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
From the outset Jane set herself a massive task of saving the world in reality just as gamers save the world in the virtual reality. As a gamer I think Jane makes a lot of very interesting points about how experiences in the gaming virtual world can help in the real world. It is a […]
Tech Finds Its Voice: The Future of Virtual Assistants.
Bajarin, B 2014, ‘Tech Finds Its Voice: The Future of Virtual Assistants’, Time.Com, p. 1, Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost, viewed 10 February 2014. This article details how smart phone are not really that smart. They process data we give them OK but they do not make decisions based on it, for example they are smart […]
Is Google Making us Stupid?
Carr N. (2008), Is Google Making us Stupid?, Atlantic Magazine, July-August, Vol. 302 Issue 1, p56-63. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/6868/ The title of this article is thought provoking, when I initially read it I though NO. As far as I can read the author is arguing that with the internet, not just Google, so readily available to […]
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