Inside View

Personally Immersed in Two Sigma h/t @patrickc #edchatie

PATRICK COLLISON ASKS, "Is Bloom's Two Sigma phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it?" [1]

One of Patrick's Questions pointed to educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom who found one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma improvement in student performance. The results were replicated. [2] Bloom asks in his paper that identified the "2 Sigma Problem": how do we achieve these results in conditions more practical (i.e., more scalable) than one-to-one tutoring?

Volumetric Imagination

WE USE A Ricoh Theta S #ricoh360 camera in every academic course I teach on the Clonmel Digital Campus and I’m impressed at how its use improves the critical visual skills of students. There is so much more in an image when you can spin a photo up, down, and around.

The Enhanced David Gluckman Experience

DAVID GLUCKMAN, co-creator of Bailey's Irish Cream Liqueur, visited the Clonmel campus of LIT.ie to share ideas about creative design with an interested group of business and creative media students.

Listen to "David Gluckman's Branding Experiences" on Spreaker.

Following Introduction to Graphology with @goharosen

I'M WATCHING @GOHAROSEN take me down the path of graphology and that process allows me to apply yet another scientific method to teaching and learning.

In the background, during the 10,000 words of research, Gosia is sharing her insights with me every week. And I'm trying to facilitate a peer review of her fourth year project by sharing our tabletop conversations in my YouTube channel and as part of my Edtech musings on Spreaker.

Panopto Full Screen Webcam

I MARKED MY FIRST day creating content with Pantopto and wish to confirm two things: (1) it is as simple as pressing the big red button and (2) you can fill the entire screen with your face if you wish. 

Ireland's Digital Learning Framework (DLF)

AS 2018 OPENS, I'm keen to see if the innovative use of digital technologies I've used with Ireland's Youth Media Team can be channeled to support part of the proposed Digital Learning Framework.

Stepping inside Microsoft Cognitive Services

THE SINGLE GREATEST LEAP I have made with sentiment analysis occurred after using Microsoft's Cognitive Services. I'm diving into the API documentation by clicking on the navigation elements that appear after clicking on the image accompanying this post.

Hands-on #Ricoh360

MY WORLD COLLIDED with the Ricoh Theta S camera and I can feel that using it will take me into an exciting equirectangular realm full of surprise nadirs.

The handiest feature of the Ricoh Theta S is knowing both Facebook and Google understand its image formats. This means 9yo Mia could simply tap the screen of my Sony Xperia Z5 and record the video below. I brought the clip onto the Surface Pro 4, used Ricoh's free software to inject the meta data that told the server it was a spherical video clip and then uploaded it to YouTube (very fast upload) [1] and to Facebook (where it uploaded slower). I recorded at 1920 x 960 in 30 frames per second and that used two megabytes per second of recording.

Discovering new perspectives in the 360 Classroom #ricoh360

IT IS TRUE what some of the most creative photographers say: A well-framed shot is essential to compelling visual presentations. I face very big challenges now that I have a 360 degree camera because everything could be in the shot.

And maybe nothing is in the shot because I can't fathom the lens parameters of the Ricoh Theta S that I'm learning to use. For the moment, I'm going to upload this quick blog post as a marker on my timeline and an announcement to collaborators that we're going to have a lot of fun making 360 degree content in the months ahead.

+++ Bernie Goldbach teaches creative media for business in the Limerick Institute of Technology.

Amazon Echo Dot in Ireland

THOSE CLEVER PEOPLE on Boards.ie confirmed for me that I could run Amazon Echo in Ireland and that means Echo Dot would fit into my lifestyle quite nicely.

Our 8yo daughter already uses her voice to look up things on the family smartphones so I think we could ask Mia to manage a few Echo Dots as part of an array in a smart hub for our home. I like the idea of a house that can listen and respond to our queries.