AUC 2.0

We’re delighted to report that at the February General Meeting, delegates unanimously approved the transition of the AUC from a consortium of universities into an association.

The new AUC will accept membership applications from individuals, as well as Universities and University departments, and for the first time individuals will be able to participate in AUC elections and have a voice in how the association is run.

For 2013, we’ll be running our “world” conferences at their usual times – thus you’ll see X World in early July, /dev/world at the end of September, and CreateWorld in early December (the exact dates are yet to be confirmed).

Watch this space for more details on how to become a member and help us evolve into AUC 2.0!

iPad in Tertiary Education Seminars

This series of seminars builds upon the AUC update last year. Since then iPad programmes have rolled out at numerous institutions here in ANZ as well as internationally. The lead presenter will summarise iPad use at institutions such as the University of Western Sydney (11,000 iPads were distributed this year); Medical Schools at Harvard, Manchester, and UC Irvine (where all students are given iPads); The University of Adelaide’s Science Faculty (all first year students have been given iPads for 3 years now); and tertiary institutions in the United Arab Emirates (14,000 iPads were distributed in 2012).

Continue reading “iPad in Tertiary Education Seminars”

Wheels Crossword Winner

Glen MundayGlen Munday from ANU is the lucky winner of a silver iPod nano for correctly submitting the unscrambled crossword from the latest issue of Wheels.

Glen’s iPod nano is on his way to him and our thanks to everyone who entered.

CreateWorld 2012 Feedback Form

Thank-you for attending CreateWorld 2012.

We appreciate your time in completing our feedback form and will be randomly awarding a new iPod touch to someone who completes a form by midnight 21 December 2012.

Please select a valid form

Wheels Summer 2012 Edition

The latest edition of Wheels is now available to download as a PDF file.  This edition includes articles on:
  • /dev/world/2012 Report
  • Apple Product Updates
  • AUC Memories
  • CreateWorld 2012
  • Joy of Tech
  • and much more…
And don’t forget the crossword competition where you can win a brand new iPod nano!

CreateWorld 2012 Registrations Open

CreateWorld is our 3 day performance, presentation, and professional development event, specifically for academic and technical staff who work in the digital arts disciplines.

The conference features a wide range of academic and technical presenters from the tertiary education and industry sectors, and includes several keynotes, panel sessions, hypotheticals, hands-on technical workshops, and regular presentation sessions.

More information about Create World and how to register is available here.

Hop around with Lester – Education with Fun integrating QR, AR & AV Foundation

Desmond Koh, Queensland University of Technology Part of CW12

This presentation discusses the developmental journey of, and reflects on the experiences gained from, the design and development of “The Secret SLQ” app developed for The State Library of Queensland (http://secret.slq.qld.gov.au).
The Secret SLQ app is an interactive scavenger hunt that incorporates camera (Quick Respond (QR) & Augmented Reality (AR)) and sound technology (AVFoundation) to arouse school-aged students between 8 -12 years to explore the library. The app is designed in collaboration with the digital agency Reading Room (www.readingroom.com.au).
This presentation will teach you how to use and integrate some key features in this app into you own apps. In particular we will cover.

• How to integrate Quick Respond (QR) codes into our app that allow users to scan QR codes to answer questions.

• How to add Augmented Reality (AR) to augment images over to AR codes.

• The usage of Apple AVFoundation to detect sound level changes and some simple image processing, such as screen capturing and image manipulation.

• Finally the presentation will reflect on which iOS features worked well for the project, what challenges we had to work around to overcome during the development process and some useful tips and advise.

The presentation is particularly useful and beneficial for teachers, librarians and developers, as it could be used for university building and tours.

 

  12.9 MB

The Peripatetic Learner: harnessing the mobility of people and knowledge

Judit Klein, Auckland University of Technology Part of CW12

In an age defined by mobility of people and knowledge, mobile technologies offer us new ways of interacting with each other and with content to enable more collaborative and dynamic ways of learning. To be peripatetic is to learn across contexts, a notion originating from Aristotelian philosophy which can be reframed to describe how mobile technologies have bought about a new way of thinking about education.

Many institutions around have embraced the use of iPads as the ‘magical’ tool that will reinvent education. There is of course criticism and scepticism around whether the iPad is just another tool that is forced upon teachers as just another way to do the same thing that will soon become obsolete.

This presentation looked at going beyond the simple ‘logistical’ value of the iPad. Apple Distinguished Educator Dr. William Rankin identified the three key affordances of the iPhone are that it brings together rich media, connectivity and access to the internet, all in a mobile platform.

There are some apps that begin to tap into the intersection of these affordances but current applications of the iPad in tertiary education are only just scratching the surface. Informed by iOS development (creating apps for iPhone and iPad), see the behind the glass screen to the underutilised features of the underlying platform and the implications of a programmed pedagogy. The talk is aimed at both staff and students to explore ways to harness the new ways of working with emerging technologies and practices.