What would you do if you found a canister of film in a park filled with snow? If you are Todd Bieber, then you would make a YouTube (YouTube) video in order to find the owners of that film.

Fascinating idea.

Lost Canister of Film Prompts YouTube Search For Its Owners

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Back in January at the Linux Australia conference , one my kids picked up a Nintendo Wii controller and started playing a remote game on a Linux desktop using the Bluetooth connection. The developer who was showing off the work on his Ubuntu computer by just followed some instructions posted to the web. I had heard of the work by Johhny Lee and ( Read more... )

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For all my IT classes, I have created a SciTech chat forum in Moodle. In this forum I post a weekly topical quirky news item, often with an ethical twist or dilemma. Topics have ranged from proposals to track individual student movements with RFID tag implants to letting them digitally airbrush pimples out of their official school photographs ( Read more... )

Here are some of my notes from a computer games research report passed onto me by Kerrie Smith from EDNA. The research findings indicate that computer games have the potential to stimulate learning and increase the levels of motivation and engagement. This link also points to the results of a survey of teacher and student attitudes to games and ( Read more... )

I took the trouble to clean my desk at work, mostly throwing away papers that I could search for online if needed.

I did rediscover this interesting Danish paper by Dalsgaard. The research paper considers eLearning beyond LMS( learning management systems) by evaluating the potential for social software tools such as blogs, wikis and other personal ( Read more... )

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