Technology has provided us with unlimited access throughout the global crisis of 2020 and 2021 to what is happening in the world and social media…
Year: 2021
The Rise of Misinformation
Posted in Mobile Culture
The rise of misinformation has perhaps increased within the last four or five years. During the pandemic, we have seen an increase in the number…
360° video (immersive video)
Posted in (A1) Analyses, Mobile Education, and Mobile Technologies
The technology required to produce 360° video, also known as immersive video, is becoming more affordable. In a world where synchronous video conferencing and asynchronous…
GooseChase is a digital scavenger hunt-building platform, originally developed by university students during a hackathon at the University of Waterloo. While not as immersive as…
Pack it in Passwords
Posted in Mobile Technologies
Passwords are a necessary nuisance that never should have survived this long. If you’ve ever wondered how many of yours are out there being bought…
Increasing Global Discourse with Social Audio and Live Studio Audience Podcasting Apps
Posted in Mobile Technologies
One of the interesting forms of mobile learning that I’ve observed rising and engaged with throughout the pandemic has been social audio. Now while some think that this first arrived during the pandemic with Clubhouse, it did not, rather it just garnered new attention during the pandemic, as people searched for new ways to engage, interact, and dare I say it, have a social life.
I am very interested in Google lens which has been around for several years but I think has been one of the fundamental tools that…
I choose this video from the Pittsburgh ML Summit 2019 in which Jing Tao Wang, a researcher at Google, describes some of the projects he’s…
In keeping with my own ethical dilemma of the pros and cons of mobile technology, I found myself mining tools that help users navigate technology…
The readiness and affordances of telehealth have been an asset during the current global pandemic. Various apps are emerging that allow you to choose the…