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
