Gibson starts the session with a jaw-dropping example of augmented reality. Using a brochure of the Nissan Cube, Gibson places the brochure in front of his web cam and the image immediately becomes 3-dimensional, in full color. He rotates in all directions, and the interior is plainly visible from the outside. The possibilities for education are endless such as nursing, geology, automotive, safety, etc.
He begins by suggesting the download of Nielson's report titled Global Faces, Networked Places. The report provides insight on the growth of social networking sites.
He focused the presentation on the pros and cons of three technologies: Twitter, Facebook and Ning.
Twitter
Provides a number of Twitter apps:
- Twitterfall
- Twittervision
- Atlasfreshlogicstudios.com
- historicaltweets.com
- tweetdeck.com
- twittergram-connects flickr to twitter
- twitdon
- podbean
- polldaddy
- screenr
- hootsuite
Suggests an excellent blog by Wesley Fryer titled Moving at the Speed of Creativity.
Facebook
Not recommended for academic use. He also suggested a number of applications:
- Forbes
- BlackboardSync- notifies students of changes in Blackboard courses
- Booklist
- WorldCat-searchable database of content from over 10,000 libraries
- Slideshow-?
- Podcast Player
- Xmind-mind mapping application
- Academia.edu-research interests and papers of academics
Ning
Ning is hard to pinpoint but is best described as a subject-specific social networking site. Probably the best of the three for use in academia. Gave two examples:
- education.ning.com
- bioarcheology.ning.com
I agree that Facebook is not intended for academic use and agree that Ning is probably the best for academia.
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