The Future of Children’s Picture Books
The famous children’s book, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, has been turned into an iPad application. This application is not just about flipping web pages, imitating the functions of a conventional print book, but about providing an additional “role” for readers to control certain animations of characters in the book. I feel this “Alice … Read more
In an Age of New Literacies
The following slides highlight the conclusions/findings from the latest Pew Internet report. I felt interested to see that “New literacies will be required… the 4th “R” is Retrieval”: Future Of Internet IV | AAAS
2010 ICELW (International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace)
My colleagues and I are going to present the following two papers at the entitled conference (http://www.icelw.org/home.htm), which is an international conference focused on e-learning in the workplace, and this year it will be held at Columbia University from June 9-11, 2010. A Case Study of the Use of Wiki in a Higher Education Research Unit … Read more
Wikipedia Co-founder Launches YouTube-like Website for Children
This site, which features videos from National Geographic, YouTube, and Google Videos, among other sources, is intended to complement and enhance the learning experience for students as they study concepts that are traditionally hard to learn. I had a look at several high rated videos in language arts and feel the site is still at … Read more
