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"If only finding focus were so simple. With a tidal wave of information coming at us daily, focus is rapidly becoming the scarcest commodity of the 21st century. With this in mind, I’ve rounded up a handful of the best apps for fighting back against the constant distractions of our digital lives." Via Howard Rheingold, Kim Flintoff 
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The Centre for eLearning has recently deployed Hotseat at Curtin. Hotseat integrates a suite of tools including a web application, Facebook and Twitter that can be accessed via computers, laptops, smart phones and other mobile devices like iPod Touch, iPad, and tablets. Lecturers can set focus questions, assign Twitter #hashtags and control the anonymity of posts in order ot draw students more fully into active participation in the lecture. Via Kim Flintoff
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Educators and students collaborated in constructing an immersive literary experience at the University of Richmond and then reenacted the narrative as a team.
Considerable planning goes into such simulations to make them effective collaboration spaces.In creating a simulation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, a team of distributed groups negotiated different approaches to believably embody Poe’s characters and period.
Despite limitations in the software and the planning process during and after a beta test, students experienced Poe’s story in a new and rewarding way. Via Kim Flintoff
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