One technology expert also stated another important point: mobile displays. There are some new technologies coming which should solve that once and for all. Mobile Monday at Zurich was interesting from a mobile learning perspective. Augmented Reality has been on the map for quite a while now, but at the ETH (Zurichs renowned University) we were allowed to have an upclose look at what some companies are doing. Here is a short overview: GBanga – GBanga is a small company which specializes in creating AR games. Unfortunately, this is not yet available for the iPhone.  link].

I am just back from a very enjoyable hour spent in the House of Lords with Lord Lucas, discussing new technologies for learning and looking at some of our mobile learning works. very interesting man. Like other IT-savvy Lords, he uses his blog and to be open and honest with his views – and has a special interest in home-access and support for parents. He was very enthusiastic about many of.

Mobile Commons pioneers easy-to-use technology for scalable mobile marketing campaign management. Mobile Commons’ technology has powered hundreds of successful mobile campaigns in the brand advertising, agency, advocacy, political and charitable giving sectors, including Credo Mobile, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Oxfam International, Andre Agassi Foundation, ASPCA, NYC Department of Public Health, Care USA, National Association of Realtors, National Basketball Association’s (NBA’s) Sacramento Kings, DoSomething.org, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and more.

Yes, mobile moodle for iPhone is eminent, we will release open source code soon - Ignatia Webs , February 25, 2010 Modern Technology and the Return of Oral Communication - The Mobile Learner , February 27, 2010 New Report Reinforces Mobile Learning is Best as Performance Support - mLearning is Good , January 31, 2010 Other Sources The following are the top items based on social signals. Best of Mobile Learning February 1, 2010 to February 28, 2010 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

There has been a flurry of news over the past few days including the words “US Military” and “mobile Apps” part one: DARPA, home of the pentagon’s technology research gurus, has announced it wants to buy an “AppStore” to use for distributing mobile apps to soldiers. This is newsworthy on several fronts: 1: DoD (department of defence) are thinking of using normal, everyday-type connectivity (.

Well, we are starting to see some leadership from the companies in the technology security industry. Tags: Mobile Learning m-Learning mobile landscape mobile learning market mobile technology mobile user experience us mobile learning mobile roadblock mobile security Most organizations, whether public or private sector have begun to acknowledge that our cultural move to mobility is not a fad, it’s a reality and it’s here to stay. Some have even started to think about how they can leverage mobile applications to encourage productivity.

These workshops will provide participants with the capacity to design their own solutions using mobile and social technologies. Over the years I have met both Niall Winters and Yishay Mor on many occasions. They are both strong believers in empowering people. They just finished the first of a series of workshops on the topic of mobile learning and. if you can join them in the upcoming workshops, do it (I will if I can), you are bound to learn a lot! What is it all about? If you have great mobile projects and you are willing to share your input send them a message.

We’re exciting with some of the emerging technologies that might allow us to address both of these obstacles in the months to come. While it was enlightening to see Steve Jobs demonstrate what the iPad can do, I found it more interesting to see what the iPad cannot do. Tablet-like in size only, the iPad’s conformity to the iPhone OS, features and ergonomics suggest that we’re seeing Apple promote a renewed focus on empowering crowdsourced content creation over significant platform enhancements—perhaps in a way we have not seen before. What did their “stealth” analysis uncover?

will keep you updated on other happenings around mobile technology and provide details on these efforts as the become known. Tags: Mobile Learning m-Learning mobile landscape mobile learning market mobile technology mobile user experience us mobile learning Android Blackberry Flash Google iPhone RIM Safari Windows Mobile In recent days a couple of technical events of note have given hope for mobile learning. Why are these events important? It’s turning out to be an exciting year for mobile learning.

Cell Phones in Learning , January 4, 2010 Digital Audiobooks, Assistive Technology and its Effects on Literacy - The Mobile Learner , January 17, 2010 mLearning Content Types - Level 1 Content - mLearning Trends , January 19, 2010 Web 4.0 Best of Mobile Learning January 1, 2010 to January 31, 2010 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Beware critics of Connectivism ! Or how I feel connectivism opens up content creation and access - Ignatia Webs , January 28, 2010 SCVNGR: Cell Phone Scavenger Hunt Builder!

Events Technology Infrastructure Education We appreciate the irony of a site on mobility being static for AGES! It’s true that we’ve been in hibernation for a long time — at least here. But we’ve been busy elsewhere, so we’re heading off in a couple of new directions. We’d like to invite you to join us on two new sites: For news, discussion, and information about what’s going on at ACU, dial in to our  Connected Blog.

Because more and more young children have access to a mobile phone, and because it is a daily used instrument to those who have it, the technology is low threshold. If you are a teacher, principle or kids-psychologist worried about counseling or guiding young children on the topic of bullying, this software might be of interest to you. Bullyproof will be released in March 2010, but you can check it out with the developer Brendan O'Keefe pre-release. Because the software is open source and free, you can adjust it to your language also (if necessary). What is the link with Africa?

She covers social media, microlearning, e-learning, instructional design, and learning technologies for the workplace." Over the years I have been enjoying Janet Clarey's blogpost s very much. They are insightful as well as practical. Her writing (and comments) also show her passion for the eLearning related job, and life in general. Janet is "an industry analyst and researcher. got this from the about section on her blog). Her main interest is in corporate learning, but once you start reading her, you will see that she crosses all borders of the eLearning realm.

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Bring Wireless Technology To The Classroom , December 17, 2009 The promise of Mobile Learning is real…but it may not be what you thought it was. | , December 10, 2009 Learning Technology: Mobile Learning , December 9, 2009 Mobile Phone (18) Google Goggles will rock m-learning. Bring Wireless Technology To The Classroom , December 17, 2009 innovating education , December 10, 2009 How Mobile Cell Phones Change Everything When We Do - Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Education , December 15, 2009 Ipod Touch (10) iPods in Education Part 13: Uses in Kindergarten?

Push the boundaries in the use of technologies in higher education. Matter of high-end technology learners and how they will evolve. Embrace the use of technologies to solve enduring pedagogical problems and create links to the graduates futures Stimulated and galvanize public debate about preferable futures by challenging current thinking To build on the past, add value in the present and create sustainable, desirable and equitable futures. Leverage the existence of corporate club, either as mentors, as supporters, or as users of the services provided.

While I'm quite familiar with where mobile has come in the educational space, and our experiences have some nice overlap, the reality is our "world view" is very focused on how businesses seek to leverage mobile technologies to educate, inform and connect their workers, partners and extended business ecosystems. By virtually anyone's take, 2009 was a challenging year for all and especially so wherever new technologies and IT budgets/spending were concerned. So, these pages and all future posts will likely stay in that vein. Knock, Knock!! Who's there? Mobile. Mobile Who?

Here are a few Key Takeaways from the article: To pursue a paradigm shift in education with limited finances, schools should consider taking advantage of ubiquitous cell phone technology for pedagogical purposes that square with best practices within appropriate disciplines. My co-instructor Jeff Stanzler sent me this Educause article about a Spanish teacher who started using Google Voice with his students for oral language activities. Students who record their voices in computer language labs or using cell phones become more engaged and invested in those potentially public recordings.

They also put my feet back on the ground: technology is an instrument connected to an economic class, it is the instrument of humans, and it is up to all of us to choose what we do with it. Technology enables those networks, but does not build or nourish them. The big question for December 2009 was: “What did you learn about learning in 2009”. Well, just one very simple, yet essential thing: to open up and embrace sharing knowledge. 2009 was a very chaotic year for my blogging reflections. just did not know where I was going and I had an existential blogging crisis.

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (IJMLO) ISSN (Online): 1746-7268 - ISSN (Print): 1746-725X International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) , this is an open access journal (yeah!) As your mobile experience and knowledge grows, you might want to publish your findings and experiences, at least I do. Before listing the mobile magazines that might be interesting to send your manuscript to, consider the ISSN-option. The ISSN is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials. ICTology [link] ).

The members of this session are: Christine Redecker , European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), Spain - New Ways of Learning with Social Computing Inge de Waard , Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium, E-Learning 2.0 Online Educa Berlin 2009 is coming closer. From 2 - 4 December 2009 a lot of people working and exchanging knowledge in the eLearning realm will join up at one of the biggest eLearning conferences. During this conference I will be actively involved in two sessions: one workshop and one debate (mmm, yes, there will be action!). education2.0

These studies were done by the Institute of Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) launched and the interesting difference between these studies was that (1) in informal settings and (2) was taken place in formal education & training (E&T). can foster technological, organisational and pedagogical innovation in formal E&T, and can thus positively contribute to the modernisation of E&T institutions that is required to fulfil the learning needs of contemporary society. If you are interested in eLearning and Learning2.0 cases. Empowerment of the learner. education2.0

They could also adopt another OS like Android and somehow integrate their security features and push technology that makes them so popular with corporations. Devices are also going to come with much better media tools, cameras, and video capture technologies. There’s been a big stir of comments, reviews, predictions etc. surroungding the release of the newest Android device in the US. The Motorola Droid was released a few weeks back on the Verizon network and so far the reviews and comments have been pretty positive. Anyway, the recent release of a Android 2.0

I have just finished a few fantastic hours with Derek Wyatt MP – a true champion for new technologies, as well as the first MP to have his own iPhone app! This is the first time we have met – though I hope not the last.  He blogs. He flickrs. He tweets. He podcasts. Radio5Live named him as the “fastest emailing MP”. His website has overtaken the local paper as a source of up-to-date local news.

I’ve been kindly invited a mobile learning research workshop at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in a couple of weeks, facilitated by Laurel Dyson and Andrew Litchfield, members of the Technology and Education Design and Development (TEDD) Research Group at UTS.  Some of these questions point at topical issues in the development of mobile learning strategies – issues that all mobile learning developers and researchers will need to grapple with: How can we best incorporate mobile technologies into designs and strategies for improved learning?

For several years Adobe has been promoting Flash as a great technology for mobile devices (and it is). For several years Apple have been making amazing mobile devices (and they are). and, for some bizarre reason, the two have been bickering all along, and never quite making friends. The latest move in the ongoing showdown is this slightly aggressive message iPhone and iPod Touch.

Ignatia Webs , October 9, 2009 Students Can Use SMS to Check & Post to Their Google Calendar - Cell Phones in Learning , October 6, 2009 M-Learning Goes Corporate and Succeeds - mLearning is Good , October 5, 2009 Using an iPod Touch with 8 Year Old Students - The Mobile Learner , October 3, 2009 Mobile University Access - mLearnopedia on Blogspot , October 24, 2009 TIME between TIMES: the joy of educating during a time of rapid technological change. uLearning Blog , October 2, 2009 Simpsons: Goes Mobile!

Today MIT's Technology Review ran a story An App so You'll Never Forget : Adaptive-learning algorithms calculate how often people need to see information to remember it about a new iPhone app based in Tokyo called Smart.fm. For some time I have been reviewing research on the spacing effect of learning for maximum recollection. This research has been documented for over 100 years. In the past with teaching at specific times and places, this has been difficult and expensive to implement, but today with ubiquitous communication devices in our pockets and purses, it is easy to accomplish.

For those in higher education looking for examples of a campus that is providing mobile access, you might want to check out a very nice solution at Australia's Curtin University of Technology CurtinMobile. They provide students and staff with the access and information they need via their mobile devices. The application automatically provides both an icon-based layout for current higher-end phones or a text format for older phones. You can view it on your mobile at m.curtin.edu.au or see a video demo here. Maps : Browse the campus map so you never get lost!

Technology & Education Peggy_G says to (20:00:47): need a link for his book :-) Peggy_G says to (20:01:50): sounds wonderful! Chat Transcript: (19:19:47):Welcome to the Liz Kolb Chat Room. Liz Kolb says (19:30:13): Hi Jym JymBrittain says to (19:30:24): Hi Liz! JymBrittain says to (19:30:50): I shared your tweet to my fb account. I'm hoping a bunch of my friends show Liz Kolb says (19:31:50): [link] Liz Kolb says (19:32:37): Thank you Jym! Liz Kolb says (19:32:43): Hi Peggy!! Peggy_G says to (19:33:28): HI-I was having problems finding the chat box! Liz Kolb says (19:33:39): Oh No!

In the longer term we have to do something more imaginative than blocking this technology. The last couple of months I have been thinking more then I am writing. am still thinking. In fact the more I think, the dumber I get and I start to see it as fact. So less writing is done. My network is amazing, however and so I keep connecting them if that seems like a good idea. My network consists of people trying to improve the world, meaning reduce conflicts, access to health facilities, access to education, etcetera. You can't build a society with walls. So we explore their world.

September 18, 2009 Blog (23) Aga Khan Development Network - AKDN Blog , September 18, 2009 Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Going mobile , September 21, 2009 Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning » Blog Archive » Using mobile devices in schools , September 21, 2009 Panlibus » Blog Archive » Oxford University 2.0 , September 24, 2009 Technology (23) Learn 4 Life » What happens when you give a class of 8 year old children an iPod touch each? The Future of Mobile and Mobile Media - The Mobile Learner , September 26, 2009 Why did I just buy new Nano’s to use with students?

For several years, those nice people at infoDev / World Bank have been keeping a (slowly aging) list of excellent, low cost technology cheap and robust enough to be used in the developing world. Great list – but almost impossible to keep uptodate. Especially when it comes to Mobile. Growth of mobile phones, and connectivity via mobile networks has massively leapfrogged the non-mobile.

Forbes has called Thomas Edison State College one of the leading schools in matters of technology and online learning. TRENTON, N.J., USA Thomas Edison State College is one of the pioneers in online education. Mycentraljersey.com delivers a good article on Matthew Cooper (27) who started developing FlashTrack courses on USB flash drives which enable users to access 15 courses on their laptops (or PCs) without any type of internet access. Since July 2009 courses for mobile phones which have been created with HotLava are also available. Link: Thomas Edison State College [link].

The study is from several people of Ochanomizu University in Japan and -as far as I can see- although the paper is dated with 2009, it is referring to some research from 2005, which is an eternity from a technology viewpoint. Nevertheless, the results are interesting, because the main point is that not the actual technology is the problem when creating good mobile learning, but rather the actual design. Found an interesting paper on Twitter today, called “Characteristics of Mobile Phone E-Learning in Japan&#. Direct download: [link].

I’ve recently had the fortune to attend major technology in education two conferences in the space of a week that featured Keynote’s from such high-profile educators as Stephen Heppell, Gary Stager, Mark Treadwell and Mark Prensky. Firstly, that pedagogy and learning can still be outshone by shiny technology. As interesting as these were however, I’m not going to write about them here. So what did I observe? saw educators flirting with software and hardware vendors rather than asking ‘where’s the research for that?’. Enjoy.

Best of Mobile Learning August 1, 2009 to August 31, 2009 Featured Sources The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. The Strengths and Challenges of Mobile Learning: A Live Discussion - The Mobile Learner , August 16, 2009 Homework Quizes Via Phonevite - Cell Phones in Learning , August 8, 2009 Education’s reductionist flaw is like the digesting duck - Golden Swamp , August 22, 2009 Other Sources The following are the top items based on social signals. Daydreamer , August 22, 2009.

Although durability is featured as a word in a lot of these projects, it is not really a long-term strategy, as it does not imply new technologies will be used, or new innovations will be tested. So who does benefit from using new technologies and innovations, if not the learners for whom they are constructed or produced? In a lot of cases funding will be given to high-profile projects with the latest technologies featuring computers and smartphones. But no matter how you twist and turn it, technology is never the sole solution for survival.

As a proponent of mobile learning and technology, I was looking at my new blog software (WordPress) in an attempt to better understand how I might use it for this blog. Sometimes the most obvious things seem to go unnoticed. now use WordPress for MobileDot. Coincidentally, I also recently attended the Annual Conference on [.].

Our ‘uptime’ overall was probably 90% for each machine though, and when compared to the previous amount of technology in the class (3 old PC’s), just having such student-friendly, adaptable and capable machines has proven a huge step forward. Having  had the chance to use the XO with students for five weeks now, I wanted to share some further impressions on how using this kid-friendly, unique mobile device have gone: “Although limited to 12 XOs in a class of 29, I have seen the potential of the XO to transform learning first hand. The XO itself is in need of an upgrade (version 1.5

With The New Community Rules , you'll understand how social web technologies work, and learn the most practical and effective ways to reach people who frequent these sites. Social Media is a much hyped term the last years. But what if you did not launch yourself in it? Or what if you feel uncomfortable and want to know more before diving in? In that case a nice, cool, descriptive book has been published from the O'Reilly series. At least it looks cool if you take a look at some of the content that is in it as picked out by the author Tamar Weinberg. But how do you take advantage of them?

Learners that would like formal credit as part of the Certificate in Emerging Technologies for Learning can enroll through University of Manitoba’s Extended Education Faculty. Straight from George Siemens and Stephen Downes' CCK09 post (sorry for copy paste, but on vacation so a bit relaxed and lazy :-) George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate the course. The support wiki for the course provides additional information in the coming weeks. You can register to receive course information here. The course will begin on September 14, 2009. Suggestions, as always, are welcome…".

In many ways, this blog is about the present as I’ve always looked to be as practical as possible to offer ideas for readers in incorporating this technology now. This blog is all about how mobile devices can be incorporated in classrooms today to help students learn.  Recently I’ve been introduced to the concept of Augmented Reality (AR) and have been intreagued. Below is a video demonstrating the possibility of AR: Initially, I thought AR was a concept for the future and decided to wait before I began commenting on it.  of the iPhone OS.  You can read more about that here.

Therefore, as we move forward on our classroom designs to create more inclusive environments and a increased student choice in learning, let not forget the power technology has to enable those who learn differently to learn and express their learning in new and unique ways that technology generally, and cell phones specifically, can allow. Just imagine it. Students are outside of their classroom on a field study. During the field study, they see something that really captures the essence of what they are learning. It could be a leaf on a plant during a biology field study.

I would like to take this opportunity to take a look back and reflect on how the world of technology has changed my experiences and my thinking. What has been even more staggering is how quickly the technology has changed since then.  After a little over one year and a half of thinking about and writing about mobile learning, I have reached my 100th post.  Just before I began this blog in November 2007, I was working as an Academic ICT consultant with the Toronto Catholic District School Board.  My PLN consisted essentially of the people I had physically around me.  right? 

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In the case of new technology, it is easy to become focused on getting the technology to work and not as interested as formal assessment. Usually, the faculty member will make an end of course professional assessment on whether the new technology worked or not. It could be scrapped or more likely modified to make sure the technology works better next time. Not all technology is same? Technology changes and it can affect classes from semester to semester. multi-tasking, technology, audio/video based, etc.). assessment). This is good. So what?

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Speaking to teachers in Brisbane at a forum on the use of technology in schools, Aidan McCarthy said: We haven’t really sat down and really thought about, `Is this an important tool?’ (Source: Blyzz, CC-BY-ND-2.0) Many teachers in Zambia think that mobile phones are just for talking, not for learning, and consequently ban them at schools. It’s interesting to see the same view coming from the developed country of Australia. ’ A lot of us are still thinking this is just a mobile phone and a mobile phone is for talking and this should not be in class.

Using cellphones to learn and save lives by Edwin Naidu is an article on IOL Technology about two mlearning projects in South Africa: a book published on MXit called Emily and the Battle of the Veil and Imfundo Yami Imfundo Yethu (the Nokia/MXit maths project). It also describes Project Masiluleke (the HIV/Aids support SMS service) and Pocit , a cellphone payment system.

The various projects — all outstanding examples of using mobile technologies to reach people-in-need using the ICT in their hands — are described in the article MXit put to some good use (The Times, 14 June 2009). MXit, the popular mobile instant messaging (MIM) service, is being used by Marlon Parker and his crew in Cape Town to offer chat support on topics of drug abuse, rape, child abuse and debt management. The youth needing advice text from their mobile phones, while the volunteers at the support centre chat back from their PCs.

The report Innovation for Africa by the team from UNICEF’s Division of Communication is their strategy for using web and mobile-based technologies to facilitate communication in Africa and around the world. For the past two years, UNICEF and partners have been exploring ways to use existing technology to improve our programmes and provide innovative solutions to organizational needs. Innovation” is usually equated with “hi-tech.” Sometimes, however, the best innovation involves working with what already is, rather than developing something entirely new.

Each country has it’s own particular needs, is at a different rung on the technology adoption ladder. The last day of the Go Mobile! Using Mobile Learning to Teach 21st Century Skills summit in Lusaka was about reflecting on what had been learned, what is wanted, what are the challenges and the way forward in Zambia. What have you learned? On the first day the delegates did not think much of mlearning: they basically saw cellphones as a nuisance to education. The lack of access to ICTs is a major stumbling block. “A mobile phone can be used for distance learning.&#.

As an educator and former technology coordinator, I know that for many schools it is unrealistic to expect them to be able to pay (consistently--year after year) for access to the web2.0 Over the last five years of researching web2.0 tools that couple with cell phones, I have found many tools that I LOVE, but they cost money to use. At the same time I understand that most of these companies that create the tools are in business to make money. Especially sites that do not advertise (which schools like), need some way to stay afloat. Therefore, here is my proposal to these companies.

The Innovative Educator: Ideas for Enhancing Teaching and Learning with Cell Phones Even in Districts that Ban Them , June 16, 2009 Exploring Educational Technology , June 20, 2009 Top Keyword Education (31) Mobile Learning (25) Blog (24) Technology (23) University (22) Future (20) Tools (20) School (19) Social (19) Research (18) Devices (17) iPhone (17) Phone (17) Course (14) Support (14) Video (14) Conferences (13) Google (13) Presentation (13) Resources (13 Here is the monthly top ten list for cc.mlearnopedia.com from June. Enjoy.

I am currently working towards achieving the highest level of technology in teaching recognition that my employer (Education Queensland) awards. Known as the ‘Digital Pedagogy License, Advanced’, it forms part of the worlds best practice in this area ‘ Smart Classrooms framework ‘ The main thrust of the preparation work I am doing for the license is not about sounding off about learning theories, or naming the tools I use, but about real, practical ways that I believe and KNOW technology is improving and transforming my ability to lead learning.

I have been reading through a number of articles on the Educational Technology Debate (ETD) website.  The articles have been focusing on a debate over which form of ICT technology will provide the best and most cost-effective impact on the education of children in underdeveloped or developing countries.  The key assumption in this entire debate is the acceptance that ICT helps students learn and that a one-to-one ratio of technology per child is the ideal.  Does it make sense to hang on to a technology that is on the outgoing end of the technology curve?

They can contribute to class online discussions while eating lunch or access their readings before class, using the technology they already have with them: their laptop, netbook, or other wi-fi capable mobile device. For mobile learning - and even for flexible learning - at any educational institution, equipping formal and informal learning spaces (such as social spaces) with fundamental enabling technologies like wireless internet access has to be at the top of the priority list.  If students can get together at a campus cafe or in a refectory to work together, they will. 

Although I promote new educational technologies with great stamina and I am used to promoting projects, new innovations. Calling for your help, because there is this weird feeling that I cannot seem to put my finger on. think that as educators we can promote others, we can promote our learning, our projects. but we loose the ability to sell ourselves. This week I got selected as one of the ten luckiest employees in Flanders, which is motivating in itself, but something happened during the interview, and that has happened to me when I apply for a job. This made me think.

So do we use technology for improvement or not? No, not most of us, because we cannot give everyone cars, poluting technology. We have the responsibility to deliver the 'best' resources for education (remark: but what is best, because the cultures are not equally placed to dive into new (technological) learning. remark: the examples of people that used technology or innovation (Charles Darwin, charles Dickins, are anglosaxens from an imperialist era. Synetics are essential: bringing together learning and technology, the idea of creativity and technology and pedagogy.

How to use existing and emerging technologies to create new value for learning Using an innovative presentation format the Beyond Distance team will offer the participants transferrable ideas for successful integration of learning technologies into teaching practices in higher education, using examples from their own innovation to practice experience. The workshop lead by Gilly, Matthew, Ming and Ricardo was based on group discussion or better yet, on exchanging personal experiences in new technologies for learning. this approach started us all thinking.

They have a midterm evaluation to get the students more at ease with the technology. Want to hear/see more, look at this vodcast (just uploaded the movie, so it might not be accessible yet, depending on the youtube upload capacity, but you can see it later for sure): "Online Learning: variations in Groups of parcitipants and tools" by Miri Shonfeld, Ilana Ronen, Kibbutzim College of Educatin Technology and Art, Israël (ah, art already in the title!) nice person with glasses, a black shirt. The students are all in their last year before finishing, so the better students.

would have loved to hear her talk on how new technologies could influence design and the overall city/street/housing landscape. The key factors he mentions that influence education are similar in Europe (immigration, aging population, educational needs, technological shift, financial and political pressure on educational institutions.) Mentions the explosion of mobile learning, touch screen technologies mimicing paper sizes. Keynote speeches (the lights went out when the first key note speaker began, so. why is our educational environment new? architecture.

Remarks on new learning methods that result from the new technologies we are using, using technology the way art people do (quite innovative and regularly out of the box), mobile learning that redefines the way we as learners perceive the world. Online Learning: variations in Groups of parcitipants and tools " by Miri Shonfeld , Ilana Ronen, Kibbutzim College of Educatin Technology and Art, Israël (ah, art already in the title!) This is my first time at EDEN, so really interested in what to expect. Gdansk is an incredibly beautiful city by the way! this really sounds nice!

Today there will be a book launch during the welcoming reception (Distance and E-learning in Transition,Learning innovation, technology and social challenges Edited by Ulrich Bernath , András Szücs , Alan Tait and Martine Vidal , EDEN) looking forward to reading it. The EDEN (10 -13 June 2009) conference is starting in Gdansk, Poland. You can follow the conference on the conference blog. To get an idea of what is being twittered about it, I made a 'twitter fountain'. And here it is, the twitter fountain for EDEN with pictures of Gdansk in het background of the fountain.

Here is the monthly top ten list for cc.mlearnopedia.com from May. Enjoy. The Mobile Learner , May 24, 2009 Task.fm: Text and voice reminders for students and teachers EASY!

have just started reviewing them, but wanted to share in case you are looking to add to your reading lists on mobile learning: New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education from the University of Wollongong includes faculty development, specific discipline examples and design principles. It is great to see some new books on mobile learning. Recently there was a lot of buzz about Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training edited by Mohamed Ally (March 2009). Once these devices were combined with a cell phone, communication opened up.

Peggy_G says to (00:47:34): a long distance charge would definitely be a problem Peggy_G says to (00:48:10): I had a lot of university students who tried to use that same excuse--blame it on the technology if the assignment was missing :-) Paul R Wood says to (00:49:23): Just got home from work. Liz Kolb says (00:49:23): Time to teach how to make sure the technology saved.make students responsible for their own back-up! Chat Transcript: Liz Kolb says (00:24:59): Welcome to the show! Peggy_G says to (00:36:10): excellent idea!! Liz Kolb says (00:40:26): @Peggy I agree.a

I was recently fortunate enough to be able to present at the Innovative Technology in Schools Conference in Brisbane on the topic of mobile learning. Imagine my excitement at having a set of 30 iPod Touch’s available for the participants to learn on! This was a chance to show what the combination of current developments like ubiquitous mobile devices, wireless connectivity and cloud computing (via services like Evernote) will mean for learning in the near-future. Despite various technical hurdles (ie. Slideshare: [link]. Scribd: [link]. Authored by jnxyz. Hosted by Edublogs.

Over the last few months, one of our savviest clients, AFSCME , has adopted new ways to engage their members using voice and mobile technology, leading the labor movement in grassroots advocacy. Prior to using this technology, AFSCME typically generated 75 calls per week using a 1-888 patch through line for legislative advocacy. Check out these examples: Web-driven voice advocacy through the “Make America Happen&# Campaign. AFSCME sends emails to their list to drive constituents to web forms for congressional voice advocacy. Check out a live campaign on the AFSCME website.

Someone made this image of Victoria Falls about 100 years ago, using photography technology that was bulky and film based, requiring chemical baths and paper for prints. hard copy of the image has been preserved for many decades in the Library of Congress. digital version was placed online

One of the workshops in eLearning Africa 2009 was lead by George Siemens , a Canadian from the Manitoba University who was one of the organisers of the CKK08 massive course in 2008 in which I participated my two cents. He is always a source of innovative ideas. The great thing about these slides is that it gives you a holistic approach of what learning embraces: experimenting, gossip, collaboration, debating, constructing ideas. name I had to google was Seymour Papert , and it showed me again that learning is based on sharing knowledge through networks. constructivism conferences

In several of my posts, I mention the advantages to mobile technology and how we can use the differences between mobile tech and other information technology for our advantage. People often comment on the limitations of mobile technology and forget about the new capabilities that mobile tech offers. Here’s a list of things I hear often from people when I talk about mobile learning and how we can use mobile technology for learning: “but the screen is so small, you’re never going to want to take a full course on a mobile device&#. compass.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of collaborating with John Traxler and David Hollow during a workshop on Effective Evaluation. The workshop was part of the pre-conference workshops organized in eLearning Africa. We had ten participants, but they were a very inspiring bunch. For those with limited time, just go to the last ‘ethics and quality’ part of the post. For this workshop John suggested that we use the Delphi technique to get the most out of both the participants and all the available knowledge in the room. The technique demands a lot of dynamic (re)thinking within the groups.

Ignatz focused on major issues to consider when starting an eLearning project: sustainability is key, not the (high tech) technology proposed (do not push technology) no longer open arms, if eLearning does not suite the audience needs, it won't take off anyway too much thinking too early from too far away is wasteful what does not work here, does not work anywhere simple here is not simple there and complex here is not complex there keep things in proportion to the local scale the world is flat! he has dark hair with a wave in it and a kind face.)

Compare current technology uptake and access in South Africa. presented by Riitta Vänskä, Nokia Finland info: Imfundo Yami/Yethu (Riitta is a woman in black with short, blond hair, glasses and a Finnish, English accent) Big desire to show how mobile phones can be used sustainably in developing countries. The mobile penetration in South Africa is very high. What did they do? the school children were the audience, so they were taken in as participative audience that were incorporated from the beginning while the project was taking shape. The content was completely matching the curriculum.

technology to reach people and to transform them into a different technological world. by John Maurice Traxler, Learning Lab, UK (John is a man in white, with glasses, holistic in speech and thinking). learning starts to mean something that it was not in the past He looks at projects that have been at what has been tried and tested all across the world. Mobile learning fills the gap that 'normal' learning cannot reach. We managed to extend the perception of what people mean with learning. We can transform, enrich and extend the ideas of learning itself. Meraka: audio wiki project.

Back in April, 2009,  The Ontario Public School Board Association released their technology policy document titled: “ What If? Technology in the 21st Century “   In short, this document outlines what OPSBA believes to be the future direction in academic technology integration in Ontario public schools. In reflecting on this document, I admit that it is exciting to see an important stakeholder in the education system in Ontario finally making a clear statement on the importance of integrating technology in classrooms to help students learn. 

Liz Kolb says (01:05:27): @Jeff hey, that is technology! Chat Transcript: Liz Kolb says (00:31:47): Welcome everyone! We are talking with Joe Wood today! Liz Kolb says (00:34:31): Is anyone having a hard time hearing Jeff? Peggy_G says to (00:38:46): that's a great tip about asking for educator accounts (free) Peggy_G says to (00:39:07): remember the milk has reminders on Google calendars which I can get on my iphone Peggy_G says to (00:39:36): Paul Wood?? Paul R Wood says to (00:39:50): Joe Wood. Liz Kolb says (00:40:20): Hi Paul! Paul R Wood says to (00:40:26): Hey Liz. link]. thanks!

is a reminder service that uses uses semantic technology to translate human speak into an email, text and/or voice reminder. There are many different cell phone reminder services available online. Many of which I have written about. few examples include Sendible , Abbyme , Remember the Milk , Google Cal , ReQall , and Alerts. Recently I have been using Task.fm. This means that you only have to type in your reminder on Task.fm, such as "assignment due at 4:00pm on May 26th". If you like this site, I recommend you emailing Task.fm and asking for a free educator version!!

At Mobile Commons, we are obviously very excited about the growing popularity of mobile donations and thrilled at how many organizations are embracing mobile technology. We get tons of questions about mobile giving, how it works, and what is required to get started.  We’ve quickly realized that there is a lack of useful information currently available on the web for organizations trying to learn.  A Google search for “mobile giving&# currently returns links to the Mobile Giving Foundation, a year-old article on Mobile Active, and a 6-month-old article from about.com.

SMS signatures might be fun when texting your friends, but they post a significant technological challenge for companies like ours.  SMS Signature Overview. Maybe you’ve seen them before.  Every single text message you get from one of your friends ends with “<3 Stacee&# or “Hugs&Kisses&#.  It’s called a text messages signature. They are just like email signatures; users setup their phones to automatically insert a message at the end of every text message.  Over the past year, we’ve processed millions of text messages.  Experiment Setup. Results.

At this event, we got to hear in a conversational atmosphere from Marco’s substantial international perspective on how technology can engage learners and transform learning. I had the great pleasure this week of attending a colloqium with well-known ADE Marco Torres. The man himself teachers at a large (5000+) highschool in California, where he has just been named Educator of the year. He is also a member of Barack Obama’s education team, and has worked with Apple, George Lucas and the Mythbusters. The topics of the day were digital storytelling and challenge-based learning. Solution?

However, there remains a lack of a fully coherent and theorised framework for evaluation, especially when emergent or mobile technologies are being deployed. This year's eLearning Africa Conference will be held in Dakar, Senegal. It promises to be a great event with a lot of creative, empowering demonstrations and presentations. During the conference I will try to live blog ( some live blogging tips from others )/tweet as I am watching the different presentations, keynotes and workshops. will attend mostly mLearning topics. this is the workshop to join. what do you think.

Although some of them did use new media (soundwalks, theater video) most of them had no prior experience using new technologies. Tags: k-12 education technology education2.0 Yesterday I had the opportunity to give an introduction on new learning techniques that can be used in secondary schools (at the Pleinschool in Kortrijk ). This was a great opportunity to see how far I could go with teachers that were not accustomed to using TELearning in their projects or classrooms. The presentation gave an overview and focused on user friendly tools (exelearning, articulate set.),

One of the latest developments in mobile phone technology is mobile broadband. This has taken off within the last year or so, and has developed at an amazing rate. Even when the first mobile broadband packages came out, they were seen as revolutionary, because for the first time, people were not confined to either home broadband or if out and about, wireless hotspots. Mobile broadband works by getting something called a ‘dongle’, which you just plug into one of the USB ports of your laptop, PDA or desktop computer. It really is as easy as that.

the better chance I have of delivering content that will interest them (I should also note that I teach technology and business classes). How do we introduce new asynchronous technologies to the learning process if multi-tasking learning styles are seen by many as ineffective? I was all set to do a technical blog post this time around but I have had a couple of recent conversations ( related to a mobile learning presentation I am preparing for ) with some other faculty which has prompted me to write this blog post instead. Topics to avoid. Read on. Where I am headed.

Mobisitegalore is a project by Akmin Technologies, which is based in Chennai, India. A few days ago I stumbled over “mobimanage.com&# , which reminded me a lot of mobisitegalore.com. So let’s do a quick comparison between the two. The whole purpose of both of these sites is to turn regular websites into mobile websites and manage them on a web-based CMS.  Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, there is a catch. With both systems you have to build your mobile website from scratch. Mobimanage offers 3 basic services: Tourism, real estate and political websites. Mobimanage.

Katz - Ignatia Webs, April 9, 2009 10 eBook/Audiobook Resources for Mobile Learning - The Mobile Learner, April 25, 2009 Throw away your powerponits, simply use Prezi - Ignatia Webs, April 21, 2009 Austrian University studies Augmented Reality on mobile devices - mLearning Blog, April 7, 2009 Top keywords: 2009 Mobile Learning Education Blog Technology Resources Devices Course Future School Tools Help iPhone University VideoHere is the monthly top ten list for cc.mlearnopedia.com from April. Enjoy.

Morton said the technology frees her from standing behind a desk at the front of the classroom, allowing her to interact more with her students. The electronic tablet is one example of how classroom technology has grown by leaps and bounds from even just a few years ago — and many teachers and technology directors believe the changes have improved the teaching field. The technology helps keep students interested and alert in a course that is heavy on content and traditionally includes a lot of lecturing, she said. million bond election.

I’m presenting in 3 weeks at the Innovative Technology in Schools Conference in Brisbane. For this event, I’d like to reflect a little on the process I go through in developing an experience for the participants… The first task I set myself when beginning to prepare my presentation is to create an initial page who’s graphics and text convey a sense of what the session will cover in as simplified a form as possible. Authored by jnxyz. Hosted by Edublogs.

At Mobile Commons, we are obviously very excited about the growing popularity of mobile donations and thrilled at how many organizations are embracing mobile technology. We get tons of questions about mobile giving, how it works, and what is required to get started.  We’ve quickly realized that there is a lack of useful information currently available on the web for organizations trying to learn.  A Google search for “mobile giving&# currently returns links to the Mobile Giving Foundation, a year-old article on Mobile Active, and a 6-month-old article from about.com.

These new features are part of a larger trend we’re seeing based on connecting mobile technology to the web. Our goal at Mobile Commons has always been to provide our customers with the best tools to run the most successful mobile campaigns. Today we’re pleased to announce both Twitter and Facebook integration into the Mobile Commons platform! Twitter has had phenomenal growth over the past year and organizations have been very quick to embrace Twitter as part of their media strategy. In addition to mobile, many of our customers also use Twitter as a way of communicating.

SMS signatures might be fun when texting your friends, but they post a significant technological challenge for companies like ours.  SMS Signature Overview. Maybe you’ve seen them before.  Every single text message you get from one of your friends ends with “<3 Stacee&# or “Hugs&Kisses&#.  It’s called a text messages signature. They are just like email signatures; users setup their phones to automatically insert a message at the end of every text message.  Over the past year, we’ve processed millions of text messages.  Experiment Setup. Results.

From the abacus to the mobile phone, technology has always been used with varying degrees of success, at College & University I was introduced to the benefits of word processing, mind mapping, spell check, font and colour manipulation to improve readability and a whole host of other resources and techniques. (From Thomas) Hello, I'm Thomas Curtis and this is a little about me and a mini blog post combined. It was not until I went to College (ironically it is the same institution that I work for now) that reignited both my passion for learning and computing in general. The future.

Director of Technology Mark Lane said Thursday that teachers will upload curriculum, lectures, study plans and homework assignments to computers at the high school. Toni Erickson, assistant technology director for Hallsville schools, said the program has been successful. Friday, April 24, 2009 KILGORE — Some high school students might have more than textbooks to lug to class next year. School officials in the district of 3,700 students are launching iLearn, a new program aimed at incorporating iPods with daily educational instruction. he said. So far, so good for us." learing+2.0

However, research of these changing forms and practices has gravitated towards the methods and philosophical frameworks used to investigate and design earlier instructional technologies and practices: Technical progress is seen as single-handedly "impacting" education, human action is understood as fundamentally rational and rule-bound, and phenomena like education and communication are understood according to strictly functional models. All of us eLearning researchers and teachers are invited to the next presentation of free CIDER sessions.

Liz Kolb:Welcome Everyone Liz Kolb:[link] Jeff Stanzler:EVERNOTE [link] Liz Kolb:Hi Peggy! Liz Kolb:[link] Jeff Stanzler:Welcome to Peggy and everyone! Peggy_G:Hi Liz and Jeff-had a hard time getting to the chat! Jeff Stanzler:I did, too Peggy_G:clap clap!! Peggy_G:keeps logging me out--oh well-I'm excited to be here for the live show :-) Liz Kolb:GoogleSMS Liz Kolb:41411 Peggy_G:that makes so much sense!! use the tools they already have in their pockets! Liz Kolb:Hi Richard Jeff Stanzler:@)Peggy: absolutely! kcalse Peggy_G:Hi Kim! Great job! Richard@MobileEd.org:thanks! very helpful!