This week we are exercising the 3rd round of tests of TelaSocial at ICMC department / University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. This project is also known as the Firefox-based social kiosk application and is being developed as a Firefox extension. This is a heads up that we are customizing this system for this department and at the same time working in the source code to have it available under an OSI approved license.
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December 15th, 2009 - Flux, was awarded by Mozilla as a winner in the first Mobile contest for Fennec the mobile version of Firefox.
Here is the winners information from Mozilla. This award was followed by a communication note from Mozilla mobile judges team " There were many fantastic mobile add-ons submitted to the Mobile Add-on Challenge. Yours, in particular, demonstrated a consideration towards mobile usability (understanding the capabilities and constraints of the mobile device), innovation and compatibility."
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Project Abstract
An annotation system that uses JetPack infra-structure and introduces
a concept of expression widgets. The model leverages the browsing
experience and JetPacks are used to support learners to annotate using
Web language, given a live session - let's say a lecture given by a
professor. The model is suggested initially as a rich annotation and
collaboration framework where students can interact with a variety of
Web-based widgets. It explores various communication forms such as
text, canvas-based drawing, SVG, MathML, and also some interactive
scenarios where teams can build together. The annotated resources are
organized and kept using simple wiki pages with less rules to the
server and more focus on possibilities for team-centred conventions.
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This project was submitted to the JetPack for Learning Design Challenge organized by Mozilla and supported by MacArthur Foundation.
Attached PDF reviewedon December 1st
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This presentation talks about the impact that Web 2+ and open
ecosystems are causing over universities and learning institutions. It
covers how Web emerged from the university network, to create a social
network that is now causing great transformation to the way people
learn thus affecting the learning model in universities. This
presentation is available in Portuguese but has a bunch of references
to works available in English.
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This is an experimentation project developed at MozCamp in Chile. This sample uses a development build of Firefox with multitouch support enabled. The video shows a simple canvas draw application written in JavaScript. It uses the canvas tag and multitouch events support that is currently under development. The app simply draws circles with transparency levels so that finger event movements translates as a fluid painting experience. This application is really simple and came out in a few minutes of development. The real hands on experience with the device creates great motivation and vision about the potential. While at the conference, during Felipe's talk, I have suggested a test infra-structure so that developers could have a feel of the multi-touch implementation without the need to buy the device - a system to support emulating the touch events. The device itself ( the HP in this case ) I do not find it very nice for purchase yet as most of the apps are prepared for mouse events - it's really weird to touch the small buttons in Firefox. But it certainly helps us to design these next generation touch-enabled apps. I like to think of this as if it is a HandsFreeDOM experience.
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