DevCSI | Developer Community Supporting Innovation » jiscwild http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:06:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 JISCWILD – Video: Darren Mundy – Pitch 13 – Day 2 http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/13/jiscwild-video-darren-mundy-pitch-13-day-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jiscwild-video-darren-mundy-pitch-13-day-2 http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/13/jiscwild-video-darren-mundy-pitch-13-day-2/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:59:18 +0000 devcsi-team http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/demonstrator/?p=790 The W.I.L.D thingSoftware project that focuses on producing a tool enabling embedding of interactive web 2.0 content into regular presentation slides.The benefits of the project are:We have been talking to:More information can be found at:

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]]> http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/13/jiscwild-video-darren-mundy-pitch-13-day-2/feed/ 0 JISCWILD – Interview: Darren Mundy, Darren Stephens and Keith Dykes http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/05/interview-darren-mundy-darren-stephens-and-keith-dykes-jiscwild/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=interview-darren-mundy-darren-stephens-and-keith-dykes-jiscwild http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/2009/09/05/interview-darren-mundy-darren-stephens-and-keith-dykes-jiscwild/#comments Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:22:32 +0000 michelle-pauli http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/demonstrator/?p=350 Darren Mundy, lecturer at the University of Hull Scarborough campus, Darren Stephens, computer laboratory officer at the University of Hull, and Keith Dykes, postgraduate researcher based at the University of Hull Scarborough campus, explain how JISCWILD will make death by Powerpoint a thing of the pastWhat is JISCWILD?JISCWILD makes death by Powerpoint a thing of the past. Instead, make Powerpoint come alive with the Wildthing. This tool allows students in a session to interact with content delivered by a lecturer through web-enabled wireless devices creating real time embedded web content in slides which have been composed in powrpoint.What problems/issues is JISCWILD tackling?Student boredom! The main focus is that some groups can be large and that can make it difficult to engage with the students so we hope that by using student devices they will be able to engage in ways in which they have not been able to before.How would you like other software developers and users to get involved in what you are doing?We have an academic user group in our own institution but we would like to see JISCWILD gain cross-institutional popularity so we have ensued we have a quick win in the tool in terms of allowing the lecturer to embed standard web content in their slides. Then we’ve got our wildthing tool coming in to allow lecturers to integrate pre-composed activities into slides that students can engage with. In terms of developers, the key to the tool is ensuring that we provide for extensibility – people can build new activities to add into the tool eg integrate textual or numerical response data and hopefully integrating image response data so students can send images back to the slides. What we want is to enable developers to extend those types and add new ones.We are building on a specific platform so if there are developers working on other platforms it would be useful to see if they can port the same content across to those other platforms.What developer communities have you been involved in and if none, why not?The first real month was spent on Powerpoint so we’ve been focused on developer communities related to the Microsoft developer network.Keith: one particular community I focused on was to do with Powerpoint development and interactive games. Also the jquery community website and php community as we have been doing a lot of the backend in php. Also the Eclipse website, using Remy Sharp’s work.What is the coolest or most exciting thing in educational software development?Darren: it relates to something from last year I saw at a conference – the idea of a dashboard for the lecturer which picks up on student response data and allows the lecturer to see who is grasping it and who isn’t. It seemed to be a proprietory system but there are others out there and it’s all about changing the role of the lecturer and helping them to become being aware in real time if the students are getting it or not.Keith: Google Wave will make a big impact – live interactive collaboration with documents. The demo shows that one person could correct a paragraph with another doing the one underneath and another correcting the corrections underneath. As a tool for educational use it will be really cool – you could have instantaneous feedback.Darren: location-based services. MIT have open-sourced their mobile web stuff and some things in our institution are going that way. It’s good to see devices catching up with the ideas.

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