This blog is the result of a summer project titled: Going Wireless: An Exploration of Wireless and Mobile Technologies. The general purpose of my project is to continue learning about new and emerging technologies that might better facilitate teaching and learning in general. This is the result of my work.
Session 2-3: Smart Phones, iPod Touches, Netbooks… OH MY! 10:40a – 11:25a Room CM447 Introduction to Mobile Learning Blog (5 min) Current Mobile Devices and How Best to Use Them (10 min) Creating Course Content for Mobile Delivery(10 min) Wordpress Blogs iTunes U Accessing Course Content Using Apps (10 min) iTunes U Academic Sync eReaders (Stanza) Engaging Students in Course Content (10 min) PollEverywhere Posterous Read More →
Introduction to Mobile Learning (15 min) Introduction to the current research on mobile learning and sharing of a list of resources available on the workshop blog Mobile Learning Introduction Presentation Slides Read More →
Mobile Learning Showcase (15 min) Overview of a course designed for mobile access using Wordpress MU, iTunes and Blip.tv. ENG101 Online is a Freshman Comp I course designed in Wordpress MU, or multi-user, a blogging platform designed to run hundreds of thousands of blogs with a single install of WordPress. The site is optimized with plugins to help mobilize the content provided on the site. The first essential plugin used is WP Touch plugin that optimizes the site for viewing on mobile devices.... (more...)
Current Mobile Devices and how best to use them (30min) Participants all choose different mobile devices to research. They will fill in a matrix online to share the cost, features, pros/cons for mobile learning for each device. Discussion about which devices are most appropriate follows. The New Generation of Smartphones Grid comparison of currently available smartphone solutions Comparison chart for netbooks eBook Reader Comparison Chart Choose a smart phone/pmp/netbook/mp3 player and in the comments... (more...)
Creating course content for mobile delivery (40 min) Participants will set up Wordpress blogs to play in. Self hosted blogs are necessary, so blogs will only be temporary. They will install appropriate plugins needed to make the blog mobile accessible, and they will experiment with uploading different kinds of content to the blog: video, audio, text, quizzes, forms. Read More →
Accessing course content Using Apps (40 min) Participants will search, download and install apps for their smart phones or iPod Touches. They will explore how each app provides access to different types of course content. Apps include ereaders, CMS access, homework trackers, Web 2.0 apps for Facebook, Twitter, Animoto, UstreamTV, YouTube, Google, Skype, Evernote and various blogs. Read More →
Engaging students in course content (40 min) Participants will participate in activities using their own mobile devices (cell phones and or iPod Touch). Tools include PollEverywhere, Twitter, TextMarks, Animoto, Posterous. Activities include quizzing, blogging, discussion, polls, text updates and notetaking. Read More →
I’m about one semester away from teaching a fully mobilized ENG101 course. What do I mean by a mobilize course and mobile learning? Mobile learning is learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies. Mobile gadgets are everywhere, and just about every student has a mobile phone in his/her pocket. Why not take advantage of these learning tools, as like to refer to them? So this semester I introduced a mobile learning opportunity... (more...)
The following is a list of apps I’ve found useful in my life in regards to teaching and learning. Click the link to visit the AppSafari website (http://www.appsafari.com) where you will find excellent reviews of the apps and links to download from the Apple App Store. Free Apps AcSync – Academic Sync: Fast access to Blackboard Academic Suit(R) and any other web pages on your iPhone. You no longer need to go through all the course web pages to check for homework updates. myHomework:... (more...)
We’ve known for some time now that podcasting is a valuable tool to help faculty extend the classroom by providing audio and video podcasts for students. We’ve even signed on here in Maricopa for 10 iTunes U sites to help us do just that, but the unfortunate truth is that podcasting has not caught on as quickly as we’d hoped here in Maricopa. We have a lot of nearly empty iTunes U sites just waiting for content. But it’s not all our fault as faculty. Those of us that are using... (more...)
