Week 2

We had a great guest speaker all the way from Nova Scotia.  She was really nice and helpful and I will be working with her on her research for the months to come. Very excited to be a part of research that will help the field in any way!
My Intro partner and I went through our classmate's assignments on their partners and they were all well done, using various technologies such as slide shows, uploaded youtube videos, and mobile devices.  We rated them and put comments on each one.  It will be interesting to see what they come up with for their other assignment, the Class Lesson for ETEC647.

Partner Introduction Assignment

I did my First Assignment on my class partner, Tom.

ZooBurst!
http://www.zooburst.com/book/zb0_4d38184f249ac

I created a link to a PhotoPeach slideshow within my ZooBurst project so that it is a media within a media. 

But here is the separate link to be viewed without going through ZooBurst.
PhotoPeach!
http://photopeach.com/myshows

Week 1

We met on Eluminate for our class and from reading the Horizon Report 2010, I have learned so much about the new and emerging technologies that are being worked on.  They are simply amazing and my curiosity and interest has been sparked on the possibilities these technologies could mean to our society.  I am very interested in gesture based computing being developed because I have always believed that conforming our bodies to the computer instead of the other way around has not been good to our health overall.  Carpal tunnel...bad posture and eyesight all are results of working too long on the computer and how the computer is built for use.  Technology where you can control a computer through remote means and natural hand gestures would help alleviate these problems.
I also found interesting how the mobile device can be used to overlay a historical map at hot spots around a town so that people can see what their immediate environment looked like at various stages in history.  There are so many possibilities with these emerging technologies, it is all very exciting and I can't wait to learn more.