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Tools and tips
Sorry, not enough room to look at them all!Share the ones you know or use on http://howtomlearn.posterous.com
Wifi is cheap
For those who have cell phone with wifi capacity:
To login to the wireless at OEB09: wireless: ibahn_conf Password: 03EC57
(the ‘0’ is a zero)
Look at the mobile version: http://howtomlearn.mofuse.mobi/
Putting up our own mobile backchannel
Via computer: http://howtomlearn.posterous.com/
Via mobile: http://howtomlearn.mofuse.com/
Give me your e-mail and simply mail to:[email protected]
Tag e.g.: ((tag: oeb09, mobile)) in the heading
Limiting our costs (for when we go out)
Put your camera resolution on low Put your film resolution on low
Data transfer can be VERY expensive! But as long as we can stick to wifi, all of us are safe
Planning mLearning
The key question: will a mLearning project make a relevant difference in your setting?
If the answer is yes, go to the strategic drawing board, find partners, find options
Plan with a little help of your friends
Complete document here, thanks to Judy Brown
Mindmapping it all
Mobile learning platform: Moodle
Open source and recognizable (we use it in Peru)http://mle.sourceforge.net
Choosing tools
Choose the tool that fits the mobile devices you will use in learning
Communication and user-friendliness are priorities
Low data exchange improves user comfort
And remember Javascript and Flash not universally supported
Some of the ‘classic’ mTools2.0
Twitter Facebook Fring Flickr Friendfeed Gmail Youtube
What is your favorite?
Getting around with text
Useful keeping your notes over all your devices: http://www.syncnotes.com/WebView/Default.aspx
Text to speech: http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/dfttsmobilesdk.php
Text to speech for iPhone: http://download.cnet.com/iReader-Text-to-Speech-for-iPhone/3000-20432_4-10970918.html
text to speech (windows mobile)http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wordstreamer.html
Different operating systems
Symbian http://www.60symbian.com/ share mobile videos live (heavy on data transfer!
So watch out!) especially Nokia, but increasingly other mobiles as well: https://qik.com/
Android http://www.android.com/market/free.html windows mobile http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/
Default.aspx http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ Geo: mediascapes: http://www.mscapers.com/
Nice iPhone apps
everything is music: shake, dance… and your phone makes music: http://rjdj.me/
if you want to be seen as a culture savvy intellectual, get this cool app: http://www.soundwalk.com/
play a gps game worldwide: orbster online gps game: http://orbster.com/
getting connected: http://www.aka-aki.com Free iPhone apps:
http://www.iphoneapps4free.com/ iPods
http://learninginhand.com/blog/2009/10/create-it-in-your-hand-share-it-with.html
Surveys, polls and quizzes
Poll Everywhere Turning Technologies ResponseWare (BlackBerry & iPhone) iQuiz Maker (iPod) Milkit Mobile Study Pocket Exam Builder PodQuiz-hyperMix Maker QuestionMark Quizzler Maker StudyCell Tribal CTAD SMS quiz author
Survey example from surveygizmohttp://www.surveygizmo.com/s/212741/moeb09
Great mobile sites to follow
Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/mobile-2-0 A mobile learning content collection: http://cc.mlearnopedia.com/ Mobile health:
http://mobihealthnews.com/ Great overall mobile news: http://www.m-trends.org/
QRcodes for all…
Let’s have a look at how these codes can simplify your life and learning
How can we access mobile content easily?
Making it easier for the learners to access content enhances their learning experience QRcodes =Quick Response codes
What are mobile barcodes 1-dimensional 2-dimensional
The possibilities
Learning from objects, exchanging information, quick direction to URL…
The mobile barcode learning facts
provide flyers with QRcodes to different web-based assessments;
direct mobile users to mobile manuals; use the mobile barcodes to get background
information during field trips (architecture, history, engineering…).
direct learners to the latest updates on specific information;
get students involved in future mobile applications;
check student attendance in face-to-face courses; direct students to a specific mobile module or
course …
Technical demands for mobile barcodes
camera equipped cell phones +
Example from QuickMark
co/dec mobile barcodes
Kaywa readerhttp://reader.kaywa.com
Winksite QRcode generator
Just a couple of examples no promo intended and these are FREE
i-nigma reader
www.i-nigma.mobi
Exploring mobile barcodes
provide flyers with QRcodes to different web-based assessments YES;
direct mobile users to mobile manuals YES; use the mobile barcodes to get background
information during field trips (architecture, history, engineering…) FUTURE.
direct learners to the latest updates on specific information YES;
get students involved in future mobile applications FUTURE;
check student attendance in face-2-face courses Can be done, but not air tight;
direct students to a specific mobile module or course YES.
Just-in-time learning
Cartoon: from www.explodingdog.com
Short manuals for sporadically used machinery
Accessing learning material swiftly
accessing mobile content with one click:
courses, updates, CME… (save the course on your mobile)
To take into account Distance to the code for readability Technology is evolving into 3D-coding The QRcode is static, but the links to
which they point can be adapted
Usefull links 2D code blog QRcode info from the Denso Wave inc. inventors QRcode demo with Gallerie, Japan
(= youtube movie 7 min)
Contact me
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