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Welcome to the Mobile Learning Blog

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.

LibriVox for eBooks & Audiobooks from the Public Domain

Posted by Coop On March - 8 - 2010

Say you are a lit teacher, and you’ve assigned a novel for your students to read. Depending on the novel, you may find a free copy in the public domain. For instance, I teach D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in my ENH295: Banned Books & Censorship class. I provide links for my students to download the ebook version for free online and a link to just read it online. But LibriVox goes even a step forward by providing audiobooks for free. I couldn’t find Lady Chatterley, but I did find 6 other Lawrence novels. Here’s a link to Women in Love.

womeninloveThe site provides a brief summary from Wikipedia and links to:

LibriVox makes reading or listening to a novel on your mobile device super easy, especially with the quick and easy “Subscribe in iTunes” link. With one click the book can be added and ready for sync with your iPhone or iPod. If students have trouble listening to audiobooks, they can visit the About Listening to LibriVox page for help.

Here’s a link for more help with downloading and listening to audiobooks on LibriVox.

Audio, e-Book Reader, Mobile Learning

Using iTunes U to Extend the Classroom

Posted by Coop On June - 15 - 2009

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 the sites and podcasting have been met with many disinterested students. So both sides of our supply and demand seem to be weak.

In the following video, I will show you how faculty can use existing iTunes U sites to provide supplemental course materials to students. The video also shows how you can sync your ipod with itunes and take the course content on the road with you. It’s easy. Check it out.

The demo shows the Glendale Community College iTunes U site.

iPod, Podcasting