Category Archives: Reports
ERA field trip at Plymouth ‘GEES Learning and Teaching’ conference
On July 7th, the ERA team and our Plymouth University GEES collaborators John Maskell, Paul Lunt, Jason Truscott, Matt Sharples and Alison Stokes demonstrated the use of remote learning with ERA technology at the Devon Great Consols site. A minibus … Continue reading
Plymouth University trials ERA
At the end of June, we conducted some experiments to evaluate the performance of ERA-assisted fieldwork compared to the same fieldwork task being performed by students visiting the site directly. Four groups of students volunteers visited Devon Great Consols to … Continue reading
ERA introduction video
Here’s a 2 minute video we produced for our field trials in Plymouth as an introduction to the ERA project.
ERA visits Plymouth to demonstrate at GEES
On Monday 29th March (2010) we (John and Trevor) visited the Higher Education Academy’s Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre based at the University of Plymouth. We met with John Maskall and Jason Truscott, and showed them the portable … Continue reading
Portable VoWLAN: A portable voice over wireless local area network for mobile learning
Screen shots Description The Portable VoWLAN Toolkit is a battery-powered wireless local area network, optimised for voice and video data. Developed for use in university geology field courses, the toolkit provides a 802.11g WiFi network, a VoIP telephony server, and … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.10 and Bluetooth audio.
Following the release of the new 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ version of Ubuntu, we installed it on one of the Asus 901s, trying out a new configuration of all ext4 disk partitions and no swap partition. Discovering that the ‘Netbook Remix’ … Continue reading
Trunking calls between Asterisk servers with IAX2.
At the end of last week we managed to create an IAX to IAX trunk between 2 asterisk servers on the local wired LAN. IAX trunking is a way to connect multiple Asterisk servers and allow clients of different servers … Continue reading
MeetMe testing
Last Wednesday we did some testing of our Asterisk MeetMe setup, at dekspc medialab in London. Setting up the Asterisk server on the local wired LAN and assembling an assortment of 6 SIP clients, using Ekiga on both Windows and … Continue reading
Set up Asterisk conference calling with MeetMe.
I made my first (2-way) conference call on Asterisk/Meetme just now. To enable MeetMe with Asterisk, you first need to edit your meetme.conf in /etc/asterisk/ , mine looks like this:
Disk Imaging with Clonezilla.
Once our netbooks have their operating systems and software installed on them, when they’ve been tested and tinkered with, it’d be a shame to have to do all that again without good reason. To avoid wasting time in the future, … Continue reading