Tag Archives: Technology

Mashups and Teaching

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 January, 2010. Filed under Teaching, Technology. Tagged Learning, Teaching, Technology. No comments.

I had a productive Christmas making geo-mashups for teaching. Mashups are a method of developing web applications that link different web platforms through their programming interfaces (APIs). My first project has been to link Google Maps to my own database of articles and news stories about China so that students can locate them geographically. The articles [...]

Tone Mapping: OK Images from Bad?

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 2 March, 2009. Filed under Personal, Photography, Technology. Tagged HDR, Photography, Technology. 2 Comments.

I went to Matlock and Matlock Bath on the weekend, both being Victorian towns in the Derbyshire Dales, the latter being an old spa town now very popular for motorcyclists to visit. The weather was lovely and some of the scenery great. Unfortunately, my photographs were nothing to write home about. Board with trying to tinker [...]

Embedding Maps (updated x 2)

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 11 December, 2008. Filed under China, Teaching, Technology, Work. Tagged China, Teaching, Technology, Work. Comments Off.

I should shortly be heading to China again to prepare for travel with my students over the Easter break — the students seem quite exciting about the trip and during my preparations I’ll explore one or two new places that we could potentially visit to help the students understand more of the economic, cultural and [...]

Sony Home

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 24 November, 2008. Filed under Teaching, Technology, Work. Tagged Teaching, Technology, Virtual Environments, Work. Comments Off.

I received an invitation to download and register with Sony’s Home, a virtual environment not unlike Second Life that is currently in beta and works on the Playstation 3. The beta is still very limited: you can define how you look and move through your apartment (everyone gets one), a central square, shopping mall, cinema and [...]

Multimedia Experement Conclusions

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 19 October, 2008. Filed under Education, Technology. Tagged Education, Learning, Technology. Comments Off.

I have concluded a couple of weeks of experimenting with multimedia to support my teaching and have come to some conclusions. The most important is that, at least for my subject material, there are very limited learning benefits from developing teaching support resources beyond well structured web resources and podcasts — at least in terms of [...]