My Technology Addictions

Well I have done it now, I have registered to be part of BarCamp Perth

I am going along to the BarCamp in Perth on Saturday June 30th and will meet up with my friend Sue, who sort of “suggested” we go, and then we dobbed ourselves in for a couple of presentations. A BarCamp is described as an unconference where  you can share and learn in an open environment with lots of demos, discussions, presentations and interaction. Among some of the rules of a BarCamp are:

That you do talk about the BarCamp -( the reason for this post)

You do blog about BarCamp – ditto

That if it is your first time at a bar camp you are supposed to present…So I will be involved in the presentations on

Podcasting 101 & Learning Systems / Design for eLearning / Education and web apps

I think Sue and Kate who are also part of these presentations are more expert on these particular topic but I will tag along and put in my two cents worth. I have even talked my teenage son who is studying Computer Science at Murdoch Uni to come along for the day. he can decipher some of the Open Source stuff that I am not up on.

so if you are free on Sat June 30 between 9am and 5pm, interested in web development, web 2, elearning, Open source and more have a look at the Barcamp wiki and register and come and join us in what looks like a great day of interaction for all

I started this post to create a set of links for How To’s and interesting articles about Blogs, Wiki’s and all things related. I had a list of links that I have emailed to others when asked and thought I would add to this and that is when the trouble started. The more I looked the more I found. So I just kept adding and adding links. Sometimes I would stop and read articles and even found a comic that certainly rings true with me and I was very restrained and only added one comic. This post was getting very large so I decided to add a What is that? page and have placed all the information there.

So go have a look, any additions welcome.

Cartoon by Dave Walker.

Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Handango is a site that sells 100’s of software applications for mobile technology and are a leading provider of mobile content.

They also have a quarterly report called Handango Yardstick that details statistics on:

“Top devices downloading applications and digital content
Top ten best-selling applications
Software sales by category (i.e. games, personal productivity, etc.)
Average selling price of applications by category
Most-searched for terms on more than 100 download stores
Average number of applications purchased
Much more!”

The latest report for the 2006 year end can be downloaded in pdf format.

While you may think that is is not really relevant to elearning and mlearning education blogs I find that this site holds a lot of content that supplies food for thought. You can have a wander through and see what is being developed. If you are considering having software developed your solution may already be available.

Currently I am involved in teaching Diploma student how to develop software for mobile devices and point them to this site for inspiration and as a starting point for possible sale of their software in the future if they decided to go ahead in this field when they have finished their studies.