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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
Using smartphones as …phones.
Could it be that the way to make a telephone call on a geology site would be to use a telephone? Now we seem to have some fairly stable WiFi networking hardware, and are considering that we might ditch the … Continue reading
Investigating video upgrades
During our field trials, it became clear that the built-in video camera on the Asus EEE 901 (and 701) is in the wrong place for our needs. The 901 camera itself is a pretty good (for a plastic lens webcam) … Continue reading
Googlemaps links
Some annotated maps of our adventures on the North East coast : Seaton Sluice – visited on 01/08/09 Hartley Bay – visited on 01/08/09 Scremerston – visited on 04/08/09 Saltwick Bay – visited on 05/08/09 Howick – Rumbling Kern and … Continue reading
Durham field tests
The ERA team has just returned from a week-long field trip in the North East of England, based at Durham University.ย We did tests at locations related to OU Geology module SXR369 along the Northumberland coastline.ย We trialled new (to … Continue reading
Clifftop multi-hop: Scremerston
Today’s visit brought us to the dramatic coastal features of Scremerston, just south of Berwick-upon-Tweed. This is a tough location for Assisted Requirements students as the high, steep cliff face can be quite challenging to negotiate for anyone. The closest … Continue reading
Fieldwork meeting with Professor Bob Spicer
I met with Bob Spicer an OU lecturer who we will be workiung with when we go to our Durham residential school at the beginning of August. Bob will be tutoring on the SXR369 course and will be responsible for … Continue reading
First VoWLAN field tests
Today we did our first set of antenna tests as part of the JISC funded Portable VoWLAN project. We went out into the wilds of Old Wolverton and set up a pair of Linksys WRT 54GL routers at a distance … Continue reading