Creating course content for mobile delivery (40 min)
- Participants will set up Wordpress blogs 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 Wordpress.com. Log-in and create a blog or Register and create a blog.
- 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.
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.
Using iTunes U to Create and Distribute Content for Mobile Delivery
