Friday 15 May 2009

Join Routledge & Aylish Wood in Second Life
















Routledge are delighted to invite you to the second in our series of lectures in Second Life. Dr Aylish Wood will be talking about her book "Digital Encounters" in the Routledge lecture hall in Second Life on Friday the 15th of May at 2.45pm GMT / 9.45 am EST. Dr Wood will be talking about some of the themes in Digital Encounters, a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art. Questions are very welcome after the presentation.

If you already have an avatar in Second Life, just teleport to Mawdryn 222, 122, 24. If you aren't in Second Life, don't worry - it's easy to get started. Just visit https://join.secondlife.com/ Access is free, and there is a full tutorial to help you get started. Once you are confident, just click "Map", then enter the coordinates 222,122,24 in the boxes on the bottom right hand side. Then just hit the "teleport" button to take you to the Routledge lecture hall - don't forget to grab your Routledge T-Shirt on the way in.

My thanks to Lesley for putting me on to this, and apologies for the lateness of this posting.

Wednesday 13 May 2009

Mobile Learning Roadshow


For those of you inclined, Apple Australia is hosting a free seminar called the Mobile Learning Roadshow. This will be a plug for mobile technology delivery using iPods and iPhones (although the delivery of mobile learning is not limited to Apple products).

What: Apple Mobile Learning Seminar
When: 28 May 2009
Where: Federation Hall, Victorian College of the Arts234 St Kilda RoadSouthbank VIC 3006

This is a free event, just register at the link below:

Tuesday 5 May 2009

iTunes U

In the previous editions of the Teknia newsletter I introduced iTunes U from Apple as a way of searching and downloading combinations of audio and video from institutions like Emory, London School of Economics, and the University of Melbourne. You can perform searches based on the institutional name (Oxford), generic subject (Humanities) and then get specific (Philosophy). You can also search for people (Peter Singer). Here is Apple's short introductory video to iTunes U