Introduction to Mobile Learning (30 min)
- Introduction to the current research on mobile learning and sharing of a list of resources available on the workshop blog
Archive for October, 2009
Introduction to Mobile Learning
On October - 24 - 2009
Mobile Learning Showcase
On October - 18 - 2009
Mobile Learning Showcase (15 min)
- Overview of a course designed for mobile access using WordPress MU, iTunes and Blip.tv. An updated version using WordPress 3.0 will also be shown.
- 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. The video below showcases the site on both the iPod Touch and the Blackberry Storm.
- ENG102Online.com is another mobile optimized course created in WordPress 3.0. All of the same features from WordPress MU are now built into WordPress 3.0, so they are essentially the same thing now.
This is a quick overview of some of the features of a mobile course developed in a WordPress MU blog. I cover assignments, forms, quizzes, and private discussion, viewing on both the iPod Touch and the Blackberry Storm.
Below is a quick look at the mobile course in traditional blog form on the web – what it looks like not on a mobile device. This is the same website that is shown in the Mobile Learning Course Overview (Mobile Gadgets) video above. The site is built using WordPress MU.
Current Mobile Devices and How Best to Use Them
On October - 17 - 2009
Current Mobile Devices and how best to use them (30min)
- Participants all choose their current mobile devices to research. They will fill in a matrix online to share the features, pros/cons for mobile learning for each device. Discussion about which devices are most appropriate follows.
- The New Generation of Smartphones
- Comparison and reviews of currently available smartphones
- Comparison chart for netbooks
- eBook Reader Comparison Chart
- Choose your current smart phone/pmp/netbook/mp3 player/cell phone and on the handout, write the name, cost, service provider, features, pros/cons for use in education for that device.
- Fill out your form here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dG1BSTMyX0FCRDFBLUw2MnZuSml3NWc6MA
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Creating Course Content for Mobile Delivery
On October - 16 - 2009
Creating course content for mobile delivery (40 min)
- Participants will join a WordPress blog to play in. Appropriate plugins needed to make the blog mobile accessible are already installed, and they will experiment with uploading different kinds of content to the blog: video, audio, text, quizzes, forms.
- Go to ZonaFun.com. Log-in and create some posts.
- Add a Post with Photo and Text. Right click on the photo to the right to download the photo. Use this photo in your post.
- Add a Post with a YouTube video. Click here to get the embed code. <–My student made this video.
- Add a Post with Audio. Paste this audio link into your post: http://freshmancomp.com/podcasts/trashme.mp3
- View your blog on your mobile device. Go to http://zonafun.com
When creating content for mobile learning, organization is key. Accessing the content on a mobile device will be limited and having clear categories and tags will help. Also consider pages for content, as well as posts.
Alternatives Ways to Create Mobile Content:
- Mobl21.com: Experience Mobl21 for Yourself
- iTunes U: Using iTunes U to Create and Distribute Content for Mobile Delivery
Questions: What would be the most challenging part of your course to adapt to learning or what would be the easiest?
Listen Responses: Gabcast Podcast Responses from Sloan-C
Accessing Course Content Using Apps
On October - 15 - 2009
Accessing course content Using Apps (30 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.
- iPhone/iPod Apps from Apple iTunes Store. You can search online, via iTunes, or on the device (App Store).
- Android Apps from Android Market. You can search online for education apps or all android apps or you can search directly on the device (Market).
- Blackberry apps from Blackberry App World. You can search online or on the device (App World).
- Top iPod Touch Apps for Education
- I Education Apps Review (IEAR)
Engaging Students in Course Content
On October - 14 - 2009
Engaging students in course content (50 min)
- PollEverywhere: Poll Everywhere creates stylish real-time experiences at events using mobile devices. This service replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. It’s the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, tv, print — anywhere. And because it works internationally with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility are earning rave reviews.
- Twitter: Little Known Facts About Twitter in the Classroom
- TextMarks: Group texting made easy. Broadcast a text message to your students.
- MyGroupText – Free Alternative
- Gabcast.com is a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content.
- Posterous: Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email.
Questions: How would you use audio or podcasting in your classes?
Set Up a Moblog with Posterous: Send an email from your mobile device or the web to post@posterous.com
- Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. You email us at post@posterous.com and we reply instantly with your new posterous blog. You can send anything! Posterous will accept any file you send and convert it to the most web friendly format available. We’ll host everything and publish it online instantly.
- You can attach any type of file and we’ll post it along with the text of your email. We’ll do smarter things for photos, audio files and links, documents and video (both links AND files). Here’s just a sample of what we support.
