Virtual Farming Is Bearing Fruits

Virtual Farming Is Bearing Fruits: "How to optimally market honey, to cultivate a field or to avoid soil erosion is what small-holding farmers can learn - among many other topics - from innovative three-dimensional learning visualisations, which are now available in Zimbabwe. At eLearning Africa 2009, Justin Mupinda, Country Programme Coordinator at World Links Zimbabwe, explained how the so-called 'interactive 3d learning objects' (i3dlos) tools make use of the power of virtual reality (VR) and a person's visual strengths to 'grow' the human mind. The initiators are the Naledi3D Factory, a South African company situated near Pretoria, which is a UNESCO partner, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, Eskom and regional initiatives such as World Links Zimbabwe."

Glogster- Online Poster Making and Sharing

I've been looking for an online poster making site for students on the Psychology Research methods module to use next semester. As part of the course they are required to create posters in groups and do a presentation. This has always been done on manila paper with students trying to get as creative as possible with pieces of scrap paper. A few weeks ago I came across a site know as Glogster and I thought nothing of it until George mentioned that he would like his students to make posters online and I remembered the site.

I looked into it a little deeper yesterday and I was pleased to find that they have an area that is specifically for educational purposes and it protects students from inappropriate content and up to 200 students can be registered per account. It allows users to upload various forms of media such as photos, videos, text and audio and to create a unique online, interactive poster.

I am quite excited about this and have emailed George with details and he seems to like the idea. The next step is obviously to research it a little more and make sure that we can go ahead and use the service. We wouldn't want students doing so much work and losing it. I also need to create a few posters and work on some guidelines for students. For more information on Glogster please follow this link: http://www.glogster.com/edu