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Thom Cochrane
AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand
Academic Advisor (eLearning & Learning Technologies)
Interests: mlearning, web2.0, Communities of Practice,
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Posted Jun 27, 2014 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Starting the #dp4byod project We are launching a community of practice of members of the Ako funded research project on Learners and mobile devices. You can find us via the following social media curation tools: Google Plus Community Tags Explorer for Tweets sent #dp4byod #dp4byod GMap TAGBoard Participant Map Project... Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2014 at Thom Cochrane's blog
A quick and easy tool for visual analysis of your Twitter followers by geographic location. For example: Tweepsmap of my Twitter followers: 36% of you live in New Zealand,Australia(26%),UK.(14%) more at http://tweepsmap.com/!thomcochrane?s=0 pic.twitter.com/DTX4KHzdyH View thomcochrane's profile on TweepsMap View thomcochrane's profile on TweepsMap Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2014 at Thom Cochrane's blog
From Evernote: Presenting without Powerpoint I have been asked several times to blog a "how to present without PowerPoint" post, so due to popular demand here it is! The first question of course is WHY? Apparently almost everyone, including mobile learning experts, default to using PowerPoint to 'present' and 'teach'... Continue reading
Posted Oct 17, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Our latest #icollab project explores the use of interactive Google Maps for augmenting global collaboration with mobile social media. This project aims to create a collaborative Google Map linking student projects hosted on the web with their original context via geolocation and mobile augmented reality via exporting this data as... Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Our paper for the ALT-C2013 Conference was one of 6 research papers published in the Research in Learning Technology Journal (RLT): "Education is increasingly driven by the economics of scale and research funding within a global ecology. We propose an alternative online open and connected framework (OOC) for building global... Continue reading
Posted Oct 13, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
iOS Musicians Now available to read in your web browser as well as the Flipboard App! Articles INSIDE include Products - Mobile SampleTank for iPad AmpliTube for iPad ikmultimedia.com By thomcochrane thomcochrane created a magazine on Flipboard. "iOS Musicians" is available with thousands of other magazines and all the news... Continue reading
Posted Aug 7, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
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Audiobus by A Tasty Pixel enables background audio on iOS Apps and interApp audio sharing - awesome for iOS musicians! https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/audiobus/id558513570?mt=8 Sent from my iPhone Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Vine finally arrives on Android: " Better late than never, right? It's already become its own verb for plenty of iOS users looking to shoot the next hot six second video, and now Twitter's service is finally making its way to Android users running 4.0 or higher. Vine's hitting Google's... Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Feedly looks like a great alternative to Google Reader - which Google is shutting down soon :-( http://feedly.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/180048-tips-for-google-reader-users-migrating-to-feedly Continue reading
Posted Jun 3, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
[View the story "Learning and Teaching Development Fellows" on Storify] Continue reading
Posted Apr 8, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Today saw the launch of the Vodafone iPad mini project launch with the third year AUT Product Design students. Following our successful project application in 2012 @awithell and @thomcochrane secured 24 iPad Mini 4g devices for projects involving enhanced mobility and collaboration. Core tools include: Wordpress Twitter Google Plus YouTube... Continue reading
Posted Mar 10, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
#EJE journalism community of practice #education vine.co/v/bgtBrd3Z7zO— Richard Pamatatau (@RPamatatau) February 25, 2013 From the EJETeam Blog Continue reading
Posted Feb 25, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
$1.99 iPhone App Saved Oscars Film: "$1.99 iPhone App Saved Oscars Film" "In this video report from CNN, documentary film director Malik Bendjelloul talks about how he used a $1.99 iPhone app to finish shooting his Oscar-nominated film, “Searching for Sugar Man.” The film tracks the rise to fame of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
View as slideshow Keith Parry@sportinaus Attending a training session on using iPads in teaching today #UWSiPads Thu, Feb 21 2013 20:02:56 ReplyRetweetFavorite thomcochrane@thomcochrane UWS Keynote notes @thomcochrane #uwsipads evernote.com/shard/s26/sh/5... Thu, Feb 21 2013 20:02:56 ReplyRetweetFavorite UWS Keynote References: Cochrane, T., Sissons, H., & Mulrennan, D. (2012). Journalism 2.0: Exploring the... Continue reading
Posted Feb 24, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
The EJE team has received its first award! At the Dean's Service Awards achieving “highly commended in the category of Research Outcomes” for research into the use of mobile social media tools such as Twitter, Storify, Blogging and Skype in various classroom settings throughout this year, under the stewardship of... Continue reading
Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
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Using a smartphone means that my 70minute train commute to and from work each day can actually be productive time. I use a mobile broadband 3G to WiFi router for connecting my multiple devices, and average 70MB of data usage per trip. This includes checking email, Twitter, news feeds via... Continue reading
Posted Jan 22, 2013 at Thom Cochrane's blog
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Putting the social (coffee) into social media usage :-) Sent from my iPhone Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Our northern hemisphere #icollab colleagues presenting at the Online education Berlin Conference: http://storify.com/heloukee/enhancing-participatory-culture-how-to-design-inte Sent from my iPad Continue reading
Posted Nov 28, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog
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Found this article from 1992! When we were young rock stars :-) that's me top left. Sent from my iPhone Continue reading
Posted Nov 23, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog
The Social Revolution Download ID42%20AUT%20Insight%5b2%5d.pdf Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog
The Social Revolution Download ID42%20AUT%20Insight%5b2%5d.pdf Continue reading
Posted Nov 20, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog
Slideshow of screenshots demong steps in creating your own interactive Google Map: Continue reading
Posted Nov 18, 2012 at Thom Cochrane's blog