Inspiration sessions

Interesting session from NZ about using NFC (Near Field Communication) in smart phones to replace student ID cards - eventually, though this project is far from completion. Students are able to check out library books, pay fines or fees and everything else.  Would love to see this at Griffith.

Also of interest was an app that used old London survey maps overlayed with Google street maps as a teaching tool for a geography course. Using gps on a smart phone, students could bring up the map to compare new with old, tweet about it, annotate it and read old police file notes on what happened in this area hundreds of years ago...fascinating! Thinking of ways this can be utilised at Griffith...

On the downside developing three versions of a homepage for different devices seems like nonsense to me. One for smart phones, one for older style phones and one for mid range phones like Blackberry's! Didn't quite believe that one.  Our developers would never do something like that when you can create code that optimises the screen to suit any device.

More later....