MScape map development

I thought Mscape would be worth a mention, as I'm using this at the moment to do a campus map at the university. It's part of a Learning Technologist/ EL CETL thing so we can demo the GPS on the PDAs we have in LabPlus. The PDAs all have windows mobile 6.1 and fairly stable, so does not need too many reboots...

I intend to only put a few events onto the map, as tall buildings tightly packed don't lend themselves well to GPS accuracy. It works, but sometimes you have to make event zones a little wider to allow for this.

A little bit of a shock, but sadly it looks like further development of the MScape software is coming to an end, as it has been announced that Hewlett Packard Development will be closing down the site on the 31st March 2010. Fortunately the existing software is sufficiently robust to still be useful, but we will have to see what they do with the final source code. It is claimed that downloads of the software will continue to be available from the www.hpl.hp.com/downloads (HP Labs) for a short while after this date.

Tidy up the blog

Had a play with the blog code (removed the top search bar) and rearranged some of the widgets today, will have another look later.

Good to see a few of the others on the course already up and running :)

iLearn day one

'Hello world'

First evening class for the iLearn [MEIT502] . Yes it is just after 6pm :)

Consider 'Mixed Reality':

Real - augmented reality - augmented virtuality - virtual environments

Check out the useful links on Katina's Joomla site. Alot of the information discussed in this session is given here, such as School Forge, Scratch, Source Force, etc Papers, such as Prensky, Marc, (2001) 'Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants'