Twitter From the Coal Face: iPod Touch in the Classroom Today’s post features a number of Australian schools using iPods and iPod Touches in the classroom. An article in the Sydney Morning Herald at the beginning of this year featured a class of year 8 students at Shepparton High School in central Victoria using iPod touches in the classroom for a global “mobile learning&# project. Kathleen McGeady has been using an iPod Touch in her classroom for over twelve months. Tags: ipod learning classroom Prep-6 classes have used them on a weekly roster. MORE >>

This framework provides the requirements to develop m-learning applications that can be used to complement classroom or distance learning. compedu.2008.09.008 Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.   Available online 7 November 2008. Computers & Education Volume 52, Issue 2 , February 2009,Pages 381-389 Home Browse My Settings Alerts Help About ScienceDirect | Contact Us | Information for Advertisers | Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy Copyright © 2008 Elsevier B.V. These themes often arise when discussing mobile telephony. MORE >>

Home About Contact Links Resources Subscribe Mobile phones in the MFL classroom Dec 29th 2009 3 Comments respond trackback In the latest guest post about using Technology in Modern Foreign Languages , Dominic McGladdery writes about the apparent disparity between government advice on using mobiles phones in the classroom and the reality of teaching practice in classrooms where often every single student owns a mobile phone. Mark Cunningham said: RT @josepicardo: New guest post by @dominic_mcg in Box of Tricks: Technology in MFL: Mobile phones in the classroom [link] [.] MORE >>

Classroom Applications As I mentioned above, QRcodes do not work with every cell phone. So I thought we should ponder some potential classroom applications: 1) Creating QRcode Campaigns Students could develop their own QRcodes (they can do this now with the generators mentioned above--for Free!). QRcode for CellPhonesinLearning.com (generated from Kaywa ) I had been avoiding writing about QRcodes for a couple of reasons. 1) Because I did not quit understand them and how they worked. 2) For a while, most cell phones did not work with them or work very well with them. MORE >>

In Dean’s latest installment, he suggested that classroom teacher Carla Dolman be invited to do a session on her use of cellphones at the recent TLT conference. Tags: mlearning , m-learning , mobile learning , mobilelearning , mobile-learning , edtech , edutech , educational , technology , cellphone , cellphones , mobile , phone , phones , classroom , education , school , learning , teaching. I’ve been following Dean Shareski’s blog posts on mobile learning this year. Were you tempted to use it to text or call in off task ways? Was it just a novelty? MORE >>