It’s a relevant question in today’s increasingly hi-tech market, isn’t it? If we are all online more and more with computers, phones, Blackberry, iPhone, etc. When are we not supposed to answer an email from a student and when are we supposed to be helpful? Is it just within office hours, or during our usual time-off as well? If we’re expected to do it outside of office hours, then do we get compensated for that? This was brought about by this article on employees at ABC in the US and their Blackberries.
Windows Mobile 7 will dramatically change the way we use mobile devices. It will emphasize the use of touch on the device, as well as motion gestures created by using the device, similar to Nintendo Wii. It is, absolutely, Microsoft’s effort to beat back the iPhone. more >>
Seems like gadget geeks are in for some interesting time ahead :)
I posted this video in a previous post but never commented on it, so I thought I’d do that now.
The video shows Microsoft’s new Surface concept, basically a large flat surface which acts as a computer monitor and you touch it with your hands to interact with it.
The question is, could this have some applications for our teaching? This is a great way of interacting with a computer for some things. It’s not good for writing a report, but it may be good for certain simulations or group activities. But it’s limited to a small group, perhaps no more than 4-5 people. But with the proper applications to support this I could see this as a great tool in business when organizational behavior or management is discussed, in health science when teaching students anatomy, in IT when teaching students network topologies and configurations, etc.
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