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Erewhon at Handheld Learning Conference
Mobile Oxford & Erewhon @ FOTE 2009
I'll be joining Peter Robinson and Carl Marshall (from our sister http://steeple.posterous.comSteeple podcasting project) at the Future of Technology in Education conference today in London.
The Future of Technology in Education Conference 2009 (FOTE09) is dedicated to showcasing the hottest technology related trends and challenges impacting the academic sector over the next 1 - 3 years and builds on the success of our inaugural event in 2008.
Date: Friday, October 2nd, 2009
Venue: Royal Geographic Society, Exhibition Road, London
The 2008 conference completely exceeded our expectations and we were taken back with the great feedback we received for bringing together a diverse mix of speakers to give an insight into the unique technology related challenges currently facing the academic sector.
M&S Using Datamatrix 2D Bar Codes
Alex Dutton and I are on our way to see the guys in Bristol who are
part of the JISC funded Rapid Innovation project "Mobile Campus
Assistant" (link to follow). En route we noticed that Marks and Spencer have started putting 2D
barcides on some of their products to provide bits of information to
their customers. Although there isn't all that much useful on there at the moment, I
think it has potential to deliver some interesting ideas in the
future. I would be quite interested to see what kind of take up M&S
have from this. My personal incling is that there may well be a large response
initially as they publish these codes on their products but unless
they can deliver some compelling content the trend will die down.
part of the JISC funded Rapid Innovation project "Mobile Campus
Assistant" (link to follow). En route we noticed that Marks and Spencer have started putting 2D
barcides on some of their products to provide bits of information to
their customers. Although there isn't all that much useful on there at the moment, I
think it has potential to deliver some interesting ideas in the
future. I would be quite interested to see what kind of take up M&S
have from this. My personal incling is that there may well be a large response
initially as they publish these codes on their products but unless
they can deliver some compelling content the trend will die down.
Talking at the Open University Library Seminar
Yesterday Sebastian and I spoke at the Open University library seminar
regarding OxPoints and the upcoming Mobile Oxford (m.ox.ac.uk - coming
soon) website for mobile devices.
Microsoft's Sense Cam [via Techcrunch]
A device that you wear around your neck, photographs, geo-locates,
auto-tags and then automatically uploads your life to the cloud?
That's what Microsoft Research at Cambridge came up with some time ago
with the "Sensecam". Techcrunch makes a good point in saying that
although the concept of wearing such a device may seem rather horrific
to many people today, people of yesteryear would have been
uncomfortable making their personal photo albums available for the
world to see as we do with places such as Facebook and Flickr.
I think the concept is certainly pertinent and now is almost
inevitable, as a serious photographer I carry a GPS logger with me
whenever I go taking photographs and whenever I travel great distances
I like to keep a log of where I went for future reference. I would
quite like this information available to my ancestors to come too, so
a device like the sense cam would only make recording it easier.
Of course recording every minute of your day would certainly involve
storing a lot of pointless data, so you would need tools to help sift
through the data. One of the features the Sensecam concept
incorporated was that of ambient sensors to trigger recording only
when significant events happened, e.g. a change in lighting,
temperature or movement.
[Via TechCrunch]
