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Augmented Reality 3D-Tracking App Makes You an Expert Mechanic [VIDEO]

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A new 3D-tracking app aims to help hopeless handymen and women become expert mechanics.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

I am so thrilled to see this! This is exactly the sort of thing that m-learning is about. Somebody finally got the memo! Okay, I’m sure that somebody else out there got the memo too, but this is exactly what many m-learning evangelists have been preaching about for more than a year. Look at that mobile interactive learning! It’s awesome! Think of all the applications! 

 

In my imagination, this is where we should have always been going with m-learning, especially when it comes to engineering maintenance of any kind. How many how-to videos have you seen? This is just a variation of that, but takes it to a new level. Kudos to this company–keep it up! 

–techcommgeekmom

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Words gain power when cut down [video]

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Students are frequently told to  flower-up their language  to make it sound more elegant and astute. The problem is that flowering-up with the wrong kind of words just makes the writing worse. The…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

Darin Hammond hits it on the head again! I have written in the past about how I thought I was a sub-standard writer because I couldn’t write the kind of flowery language that was required of me in school, and yet it turns out that I was on the right track with what came instinctually to me all along. Thanks for the reinforcement, Darin! This is truly what technical communicators need to keep in mind, and it’s what we need to teach our children so that they can be better professional writers, no matter what field they enter. 

–techcommgeekmom

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Follow-up: Where have all the adverbs gone? And how did they go?

mouthThis came to me by way of the Chicago Manual of Style Facebook feed. I’m not going insane–adverbs are declining, enough so that there’s a whole article in The Guardian from last fall!

Read the article here:

Where have all the adverbs gone? And how did they go?

I’m glad to have found an ally with the writer of the article, Maddie York!

To read my original article addressing this phenomenon, read here.

What do you think? Are adverbs overrated, or ignored?

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Global Tablet Shipments on Track to Surpass Total PC Shipments by 2015 [#mLearning]

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According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC), the shift from traditional Personal Computers to Mobile Devices continues forward faster than expected, and with no slowin…

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

RJ Jacquez it at it again–reminding us that the mobile revolution is not over yet! These stats are very important, because it shows that mobile technology isn’t a fad or going away anytime soon. While m-learning is an important factor, I’m starting to see how mobile is going to impact all aspects of life’s documentation and content. I hope to write more about that soon. 
–techcommgeekmom 

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The Future Of Technology Isn’t Mobile, It’s Contextual

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You’re walking home alone on a quiet street. You hear footsteps approaching quickly from behind. It’s nighttime. Your senses scramble to help your brain figure out what to do. You listen for signs of threat or glance backward.

Danielle M. Villegas‘s insight:

This great article was brought to my attention by my new friend, Joel Kline, who I met at STC Summit ’13. It definitely is something that I can see being a next step. The question is, how do you think it will affect technical communications? I imagine it will have a big impact once the technology is actually there. 

–techcommgeekmom

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