TEL Blog - Technology Enhanced Learning

New layers feature on Google Maps for Mobile v useful for nearby Wikipedia, friends, searches, MyMaps…
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:03 PM

“Just as the world itself can be viewed through many lenses, the latest version of Google Maps for mobile allows you to view many layers of information on your map at the same time. Layers make it easier and more useful to find and interact with geographic content, like public transit, traffic (with incidents!), local search results, Latitude friend locations, Wikipedia and more. You can also see your own My Maps content as a layer on Google Maps for mobile. And finally, multiple layers can be combined at the same time to give you a content-rich view of what’s around you.”
http://is.gd/1Ukuv

John Cook is part of the London Mobile Learning Group (LMLG) accepted workshop at the Alpine Rendez-Vous, within the framework of the STELLAR Network of Excellence and organised by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. The workshop is entitled Technology-enhanced learning in the context of technological, societal and cultural transformations. The LMLG workshop will take place from November 30 to December 1 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria. There has
been a tough competition for places, during which the Reviewer Board had to reject 50% of the proposals. In addition to helping organise the workshop, John has a position paper to present: Individualized participation in public forms of communication and learning: reshaping contexts in a changing world of cultural products, by John Cook (LTRI) and Elisabetta Adami (University of Verona, Italy).

Links:
LMLG workshop description: http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/?page=Alpine-rendez-vous
Alpine Rendez-Vous: http://www.stellarnet.eu/programme/wp3/rendez-vous/
LMLG: http://www.londonmobilelearning.net/
STELLAR Network of Excellence: www.stellarnet.eu

John Cook gave a keynote at the JISC Institutional Impact online meeting #ssbr0709 (using Elluminate), Thursday 09/07/09.

The title of John’s talk is ‘Scaffolding the Mobile Wave’. See the following link for details:
http://ssbr0709.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/programme/

A blog by Graham Attwell has an MP3 podcast (including questions from audience of about 70) from John’s keynote embedded in it: http://www.pontydysgu.org/2009/07/conference-podcast/

The slides from John’s talk can be found at his Slideshare site: http://tinyurl.com/m27lhc

Context-Aware Mobile Computing: Affordances of Space, Social Awareness, and Social Influence… http://ff.im/3M4S1