LearnShifting

I am not yet an android operating system user but just like the influx of iDevices into our education network - iPad, iPhone, iPod - we have encountered a little glitch with Android devices. Version 3.1 is required to join using our proxy configuration. A lot of devices at the time of writing this are running 3.01 which does not support proxy settings. I had a quick look on forums and there appear to be some folks having problems AFTER they upgrade to 3.1 from 3.01 so I am not sure yet whether the "fix" exposes more problems.

So please inform yourself before performing any upgrade... :-)

If there are any Android users out there on our education network (you will know who you are) please let me know via comment or email if you have enjoyed success or otherwise in connecting your device to our wireless network.

This entry was posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:19 AM and has received 223 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

We use software to deliver learning. That software runs on computers over networks. The software we use includes video conferencing, authored lessons and integration with our learning management solution.

Somewhere in that mix of technology are students, teachers and course designers. What happens when it goes wrong? What happens when there are 40,000 students using computers and they need a computer and program to be working for their lesson which lasts 45 minutes?

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This entry was posted on May 27, 2010 at 9:58 AM and has received 436 views. There are currently 1 comments. Print this entry.

Yes, well there are a couple of catches. It is free, but you can only have yourself and two other people in the same room. What is cool is that like Microsoft's live messenger offerings that come with space to store your stuff and tools to edit things, and Google's things that do the same thing, Adobe has glued together its offerings so you can whip up a presentation online, prepare a spreadsheet or convert something to PDF (apparently only 5 times in the free version but that is fine).

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This entry was posted on March 21, 2010 at 9:27 PM and has received 529 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.

The link we use for video conferencing to places like Ramingining and Maningrida in Arnhem Land was constructed by Telstra and has won an international award for a project that has given remote Territory communities some of the fastest internet services in the country. Read about it here http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/11/27/104671_ntnews.html. Education were and are major stakeholders in this project which ups the quality of infrastructure, allowing high definition content to be beamed into classrooms using the link.

This entry was posted on November 28, 2009 at 9:08 AM and has received 264 views. There are currently 0 comments. Print this entry.