ABSTRACT: Since July 2007 there have been more mobile phones in operation in Australia than there are people ; and when you add in the other mobile, digital devices that ordinary Australians own – such as media players, digital cameras, and portable computing devices – it is apparent that there are tremendous tools for personal and lifelong learning in the pockets of our students.  Leonard Low. University of Canberra, November 2009. Author’s Notes. Why aren’t students already using their mobile devices for personal and lifelong learning? MORE >>

QR Code shirts I wore (+stamps and cards brought) to the 2007 MLearn Conference. Simultaneously, improved text recognition will allow retrieval of, or access to, web-based activities or resources simply by typing or writing our a URL in human-readable form and pointing a mobile phone camera at that URL.  I’ve been writing about QR Codes in education for the last five years ( [link] ), on this blog, as well as in a few published and formal papers. Google Goggles ) and mobile text recognition (both typeface and handwritten) within about five years. MORE >>

The tub of 8 iPod touches on loan to the class for the week comes with Power Docks and a number of recommended activity sheets. This blog post gives examples of the activities she has carried out with her Grade Two students, ranging from listening to stories through a headphone splitter that allows one iPod to be used simultaneously by a group of five students, to applications that allow them to practise spelling, language, maths and logic skills. You are Never Alone communicate and collaborate in an online world Skip navigation About « Assessing Learning with Web 2.0: MORE >>

He has made some seminal contributions in the field of digital ethnography, and burst in to the realm of public consciousness with his 2007 video -"The Machine is US/ing US". He is considered an active developer of innovative teaching skills, for which he has won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Nellie Deutsch , an incredibly strong promoter of open education, has been gathering a few very interesting educational thinkers. One of these great educational minds, viewing the world from an anthropologist point of view is Michael Mike Wesch. MORE >>

Clearly indicate your learning objectives : learning objectives are at the core of the activities of your eLearning course. This in its turn will allow you to decide which type of eLearning activity should be developed (educational games for simulations, quizzes to check information assimilation, discussion forums for looking at in-depth understanding or group work…) 3. Anyone who wants to contribute can send their tips to the eZine , maybe our tips will get quoted and published. It ain’t always easy to dive into eLearning. It always looks much easier than it ease. MORE >>