TikTok in education

A great thread on the use of #TikTok for education:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/769573510340016/

with several good examples of TikTok use in the classroom:

https://www.tiktok.com/@sutherlandphys

https://www.tiktok.com/@sutherlandphys

https://www.tiktok.com/@leighbeez/

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more on TIk Tok in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=tik+tok

WhatsApp CEO and German Law

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/whatsapp-ceo-on-the-controversy-surrounding-proposed-german-communications-laws-a-2e6f4c52-4a39-4117-8199-1606e1f3ac87

Cathcart: Let me be very clear: We cannot read your messages, we cannot listen to your calls. When you send your location over WhatsApp, we do not know where you are.

DER SPIEGEL: But you do save data about your users like the device ID, the phone model, the WhatsApp user name, the phone book and thereby also the numbers of all their contacts, right?

DER SPIEGEL: Apple has recently introduced privacy labels that resemble nutritional labels about what kind of data an app collects and what it doesn’t. Why don’t you do something similar?

DER SPIEGEL: A new German law, if passed, would mean that WhatsApp would have to hand over account data to law enforcement. Do you hand over data about your customers to government agencies?

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more on WhatsApp in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=whatsapp

EU and gig economy

Gig economy: Europe tells companies to negotiate with workers or face new laws – Europe’s lawmakers have a message for “gig-economy” companies—get negotiating with unions and other workers’ representatives, or face new EU-wide legislation. from r/Futurology

https://fortune.com/2021/02/24/gig-economy-europe-worker-rights-eu/

Around 11% of the EU’s workforce—so, 24 million people—is estimated to have provided services through digital platforms at least once. Of those, 3 million do so for their primary source of income, 9 million for their secondary source, and nearly 7 million as an occasional income source.

Uber, notably, has already tried to lobby EU legislators on the topic. Early last week, it released a white paper arguing for a similar regulatory approach to that taken in California, where voters last November backed a ballot initiative cementing independent contractor status for Uber’s and Lyft’s drivers.

However, that argument was undermined within days by the U.K.’s Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled that Uber’s drivers are in fact workers rather than independent contractors, and therefore deserve the minimum wage and annual paid leave.

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more on gig economy in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=%22gig+economy%22

FrameVR

https://framevr.io/

(from Virbela Labs)

Directions: https://youtu.be/j52snzy49Hg and https://youtu.be/99JPA-3tajs

“Frame” is the “classroom,” generates its own URL.

To enter my classroom, you just need use that URL, hit enter.

up to 3 free frames.

MNimmersive team, I created a room for us: https://framevr.io/teaching-vr

Constraints: while it seems free, the cap for the “inventory” (360 degrees photos and videos included) is 500MB

It is available for PC/Mac, mobile devices and goggles (best on Oculus)

Help is in Discord:

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more on virtual worlds in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/working-in-vr/

working in VR

I spent two weeks working in VR and now I’m not sure what’s real

From scribbling on whiteboards on a beach to replying to emails in outer space, could a VR headset be the answer to WFH woes?

An app called Work in VR promises to rescue me with an ingenious solution that uses a webcam to overlay a real-time video of my keyboard into the virtual world.

Steam’s Bigscreen — an app that mirrors your desktop while letting you collaborate and play games with virtual friends (or their 3D avatars, to be more precise), in real time. Bigscreen

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more on immersive in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive

practise medicine in VR

Virtual reality has found a new role: Teaching doctors to deal with patients

Medical students and junior doctors are increasingly learning to practise medicine in VR

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2021/03/10/journal-of-applied-instructional-design-jaid/

While COVID is driving clinical learning to VR, the teaching of human anatomy — which typically takes place in the early years of a medical degree — has already shifted to virtual reality in some universities. Case Western Reserve University’s medical school, for example, had been teaching anatomy on campus through content on Microsoft Hololens, rather than by dissecting cadavers as many universities do. Now, with students unable to come onto campus, the university has shipped headsets to students at home so they can continue learning at home.

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more on immersive in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=immersive

Journal of Applied Instructional Design (JAID)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/767163743914326/

The Journal of Applied Instructional Design (JAID) is excited to announce that the special issue Designing For All: An Exploration of Universal Design for Online Learning (Volume 10, Issue 1) has recently been published using the new open-access format. A special thank you to the guest editors and all those that contributed to the issue!
https://edtechbooks.org/jaid_10_1
The following is a link to all issues of JAID:
https://edtechbooks.org/jaid

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more on instructional design in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=instructional+design

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