{"id":2376,"date":"2014-10-20T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2014\/10\/20\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T11:29:23","slug":"googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/10\/20\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"#GoogleGlass for learning: The National Trust experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpcom-reblog-snapshot\"><div class=\"reblogger-note\"><p class=\"reblogger-headline\"><img alt='' src='http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/247591a218ff1f3215cfd7c3b78cd734?s=32&#038;d=identicon&amp;%23038;r=G' class='avatar avatar-32' height='32' width='32' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/author\/memetech\/\">Matthew Tyler-Jones<\/a>:<\/p><div class='reblogger-note-content'><blockquote><p>A colleague pointed out this post to me, wherein a Google Glass owner tries a visit to Blickling. Of course he was stymied by a lack of a phone signal &#8211; which is common across many of our properties, and by a lack of wifi. Putting public wifi into National Trust buildings, to ensure decent connectivity despite thick stone walls in some places  (not at Blickling), and then connecting to a network with enough capacity for tens or hundreds of visitors at a time to have responsive access to the web is a challenge for many, or most National Trust places. But it will become more and more urgent as visitors will expect to learn about places in ways that suit them. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div><\/div><div class=\"reblog-post\"><p class=\"reblog-from\"><img alt='' src='http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/60f584c5f8d548118520c14b52c29d93?s=48&#038;d=identicon&amp;%23038;r=G' class='avatar avatar-48' height='48' width='48' \/>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/julianstodd.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/11\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/\">Julian Stodd&#039;s Learning Blog<\/a>:<\/p><div class=\"reblogged-content\">\n<p>Whilst i enjoy the history, the cream tea is an essential part of the experience. Whether you go jam first, layering your cream on top, or cream first (which, just to be clear, is wrong), there\u2019s nothing quite like sitting in a National Trust cafe, fending off the wasps, to let you know that summer is well and truly here.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/julianstodd.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/image2.jpg\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4665\" src=\"http:\/\/julianstodd.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/image2.jpg?w=440&#038;h=322\" alt=\"Blickling Hall\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The National Trust is a charity, set up to preserve landscapes and houses of national importance: originally focused on grand, stately homes, now equally likely to preserve the more humble abodes of writers and musicians. As a member, you can enjoy access to hundreds of properties around the UK, assured of a firmly middle class experience and a nice cup of tea at the end of it. I\u2019m a huge fan.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>But it was with some trepidation that, having taken delivery of my <a href=\"http:\/\/julianstodd.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/31\/becoming-an-explorer-google-glass-for-learning\/\" title=\"Becoming an Explorer: Google Glass for Learning\">GoogleGlass<\/a> a scant four days earlier, i\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><p class=\"reblog-source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/julianstodd.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/11\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/\">View original<\/a> <span class=\"more-words\">1,679 more words<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3198\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3198\/\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&#038;blog=43249545&amp;%23038;post=3198&amp;%23038;subd=memetechnology&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/julianstodd.wordpress.com\/2014\/08\/11\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/\">Julian Stodd&#8217;s Learning Blog<\/a>:<br \/>Whilst i enjoy the history, the cream tea is an essential part of the experience. Whether you go jam first, layering your cream on top, or cream first (which, just to be&hellip;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&amp;blog=43249545&amp;post=3198&amp;subd=memetechnology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[848],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>#GoogleGlass for learning: The National Trust experience - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/10\/20\/googleglass-for-learning-the-national-trust-experience\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"#GoogleGlass for learning: The National Trust experience - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Originally posted on Julian Stodd&#039;s Learning Blog:Whilst i enjoy the history, the cream tea is an essential part of the experience. 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