Argon is a mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Browser for the iPhone. From the website: Argon is the completely open standards augmented reality browser that allows rapid development and deployment of Web 2.0 style augmented reality content. Argon renders a standards compliant combination of KML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript served via typical HTTP servers Multiple simultaneous […]
A festival; no wellies but lots of good discussions
Last week saw the glamorously titled ‘Festival of Assemblies’ but unlike Glastonbury and the like, we didn’t need to don wellies (shame as I would love an excuse to get these ‘wedge wellies’ which I saw on Dragon’s Den, often a useful programme to watch to pick up tips for immersing into the JISC world, […]
Mobile Web Roundup
Well…I’ve been travelling around the interweb, reading – or simply adding to Instapaper for later and trying to get round to reading – lots of lovely articles, blog posts and suchlike on the current happenings around the Mobile Web. As you’ll well know (seeing as you’re reading this) the Mobile Web is a hot topic […]
Mobile Tech meeting raises issues
I recently ran a JISC CETIS event on mobile technology at the University of Bolton and, it seemed to me, to be rather successful. Of course the day was packed, we ran over time and my session on AR at the end of the day was rushed and sketchy…but it nicely lines up some more […]
Mobile tech, web-apps & frameworks
One of the big questions around institutions throwing themselves into the mobile learning world is how do you cater for such a huge variety of handsets and operating systems? Tom Hume, Managing Director of Future Platforms (http://www.futureplatforms.com/) recently presented at the excellent Eduserv Symposium: The Mobile University. Tom pointed out that to reach 70% of […]
And the Winner Is … The UK
I have spent this week at the IMS Learning Impact Conference in Long Beach California. I’ve enjoyed the conference and sensed a remarkably fresh approach, amongst delegates and IMS alike, to standards and their role in educational technology. Overall I’d suggest a strong re- affirmation that the direction of travel we have been following in […]
Interview with Mark Blowers-Ovum Butler’s Group
’Whichever route you choose, remember that EA is a path, not a destination. EA has no value unless it delivers real business value as quickly as possible. One of the most important goals of any EA is to bring the business sides & the technology side together so that both are working effectively towards the […]
Timetabling and Resource Scheduling workshop-Birmingham
Last November, I had the opportunity to attend the JISC Timetabling and resource scheduling workshop in Birmingham. This event had several participants that include vendors like CELCAT, Scientia and Serco Facility CMIS. On this event, The Academic Registrars Council (ARC) timetabling practitioner Group and the Association of university Administrators (AUA) Space Management Special Interest Group […]
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
UML is definitive software modeling language. This emerged in the mid 1990’s with the standard driven from the Object Management Group TM or OMGTM. It is a graphical language with a set of semantics and rules. UML was developed to reduce the communication inefficiencies between various stakeholders within a project .The rules are explained in […]
Microsoft Oslo
In October 2008 Microsoft first presented Oslo as their new modelling platform in the Professional Developer’s conference to the public. Oslo is the code-name for Microsoft’s unified modeling platform developed to empower non developers to build distributed applications. Initially, it aimed at developing a visual and repository tool for creating models and finally emerged as […]