MR KOSIE ELOFF

Overview

• BIS Multimedia (UP)
• BIS (Hons) Multimedia(UP)
• Lecturer
• Coordinator: Multimedia Honours Programme

Contact details:

• kosie.eloff@up.ac.za
• Office: IT-building 6-63
• Telephone: +27 12 420 4681
• Fax: +27 12 362 5181
• Personal blog
• Email


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Office hours:

• Mondays, 12:30-14:30
• Tuesdays, 9:30-11:30

Modules that I coordinate:

Undergraduate:

• IMY 310 (Human-computer interaction coursework)
• PUB 310 (Publishing in the digital environment [1] [2]
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Postgraduate:

• IMY 779 (Human-computer interaction research [1] [2])
• IMY 774 (Virtual environments)
• IMY 772 (Hypermedia and markup languages)
• PUB712 (Advanced e-publishing)
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Research

A taxonomy of ebook enhancement: exploring past and current trends in enhancing electronic books.
Keywords: Ebooks, enhanced ebooks, fixed-layout and reflowable content, web-first versus print-first production workflows, single source publishing.

Heuristics for the design and evaluation of wiki engines and interfaces.
Keywords: Usability, Human-Computer Interaction, Information and Knowledge Management, Interface Design.

Conference and workshop presentations

• 7 August 2010
• Ibala consortium workshop on mobile library services
• Presentation: electronic books and electronic reading.

• 12 Oct 2010
• CSIR Knowledge commons information session
• Presentation: all about ereaders and ebooks.

• 24 November 2010
• National library of South Africa
• Second ibala consortium workshop on mobile technologies
• Presentation: electronic books and electronic reading.

• 5 May 2011
• South African National Library and Information Consortium
• Workshop on the mastering the Management of e-Resources
• Presentation: e-Book Portability and impact on Academic and Research Libraries

• 9 June 2011
• University of Pretoria Library Services
• Seminar on the e-Learning environment: future trends and impact - workshop on mobile technology
• Presentation: Mobile devices in education.

• 22 August 2011
• South African Online User Group, August meeting
• Presentation: "making sense of eBooks".

• 25 October 2011
• ICT In Higher Education, "An African Perspective" [PDF]
• Presentation:Social media experiment: How I used social media to tell you about social media"

• 2 February 2012
• University of Pretoria Department of Library Services.
• Presentation: Ereaders and media tablets: an introduction to information professionals. 

• 29 February 2012
• University of Pretoria Medical Library.
• Presentation: Digital publishing - ebooks and mobile devices.

• 7 June 2012
• 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting (SAOIM)
• Presented paper: What is the Cloud and how will cloud computing affect my everyday work life?

• 8 June 2012
• 11th Southern African Online Information Meeting (SAOIM)
• Presented workshop: Self-publishing.
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• 23 November 2012
• Edunetworks E-libraries Conference
• Presented workshop: Mastering the ebook revolution.
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• 28 February 2013
• South African National Library
• Presentation: Mastering the ebook revolution.

Memberships

• Mobileread community -  an online community dedicated to the exchange of ideas and information relating to all aspects of digital, especially mobile, reading. 

• iBala consortium - Raising awareness of mobile technologies within the LIS profession

• Southern African Online User Group - a forum for the exchange of information on current developments, applications and opportunities in the expanding field of online information in the broadest sense. 

Things I'm proud of

• I run media tablet workshops to help staff members investigate how to integrate these and other mobile devices into their work.
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• I consult with the Department of Library Services about ebooks, ereaders and media tablets. This includes training librarians in the use of such devices.  

• I've been actively promoting the use of so-called web 2.0. technologies [1] [2].
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• I curriculated a course in publishing in the digitial environment inspired by Dr. Karen de Wet.
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• I curriculated a course in virtual environments, which has a strong focus on virtual reality, virtual worlds and augmented reality. My students make virtual worlds.

• Best computer game of 2004-group [1] (yes, games were much simpler then!) [Instructions]
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• Top of class, 2005 honours group