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22 octobre 2015

Making Games for Web and iOS with Stencyl

By Anastasia Salter. In this series, I’ve looked at a lot of newcomer-friendly tools for making games in the classroom or as projects with and for students, including Twine, Scratch, Construct 2, inklewriter, Inform 7, and Adventure Game Studio. While some of these tools are successfully cross-platform, many of the best tools for making graphical games are PC-only. Read more...

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22 octobre 2015

Automating Writing with TextExpander Scripts

By Jason B. Jones. TextExpander is a slightly terrifying key logger a well-designed, intensely useful app for Mac & iOS that does exactly what it says on the tin: it takes little snippets of text and blows them up into arbitrarily longer ones. Ryan wrote about it 5 years (!?!) ago, and George followed up with a post about using it for grading.
The real power of TextExpander comes into focus when you start to reflect on just how many things are text. For example, scripts are just text. Read more...

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22 octobre 2015

Content Blocking in iOS 9 with Adamant

By Jason B. Jones. One of the most popular, if controversial, features of iOS 9 is the built-in support for content blockers in Safari. On the one hand, I think most people are probably willing to pay for quality content; on the other hand, a lot of pretty awful stuff goes on in the world of online advertising, especially on mobile devices. Trying to access many mobile sites, especially mobile news sites, can result in massive amounts of data and battery use … just to get to the ads. Read more...

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22 octobre 2015

How Video Games Are Becoming University-Approved Sports

By Ellen Wexler. When 800 video gamers arrived at the University of Cincinnati’s basketball arena on Saturday morning, 8,000 feet of extension cords and 11,000 feet of Ethernet cables awaited them. Check-in was at 9 a.m., and they had a lot to carry: laptops, desktops, TV monitors, GameCube controllers. More...

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21 octobre 2015

Smartphones: A nudger’s best or worst friend?

By Ben Castleman. It goes without saying that mobile technology and smartphones have transformed our lives. Tasks that, not so many years ago, mainly happened in person or on paper now take place in the palm of our hands. Day and night we can shop, learn, navigate, and communicate—all thanks to these tiny devices. More...

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19 octobre 2015

Higher education’s future – Asia and technology

By Yojana Sharma. The development of technology, particularly online learning, and the emergence of Asian countries as strong higher education performers and a major source of students will shape the future of higher education in the coming years, the "Higher Education Futures" conference, jointly organised by the OECD and Singapore government, heard last Wednesday. Read more...

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18 octobre 2015

Mobiliya Edvelop: Bringing the benefits of technology to education

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Mobiliya Edvelop, a leading digital classroom platform, is spearheading educational transformation by enabling remote classrooms and lectures to schools spread across different locations. More...

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18 octobre 2015

IBM reaches more students through programming contest, cloud access

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today an expansion of its developer skills training program that will reach a record number of students worldwide this year with the Master the Mainframe programming contest. More...

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18 octobre 2015

This edtech startup is winning over professors

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. If you've gone to college, you're probably familiar with the anxieties of the first day of class in a large lecture hall. You grab a seat, get the phone numbers or Facebooks of the people sitting around you, and they become your peer resource in the class. More...

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17 octobre 2015

Poll: Most College Students Prefer Laptops Over Tablets for School

Higher Ed Tech News and Research ~ Ray Schroeder, editor. Even though tablet purchases are on the rise among college students, most of them still prefer to use laptops for learning. At the same time, overwhelming majorities of students believe tablets will serve more and more educational functions in the future. More...

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