The workshop will address three key themes: * Principles and Priorities * Methods, Tools and Techniques * Ethics and Quality Each theme will be preceded by a brief talk that will define the scope of the theme and provide examples in order to create a shared understanding and to catalyse discussion. 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. will attend mostly mLearning topics. So join this session if you want to get active and learn effective evaluation.

As a result, educators could take advantage of students interest in Facebook by integrating the tool into learning and teaching studnets how to set up an appropriate profile and post on Facebook without harming their professional futures. In addition, by using Facebook as a learning tool, it gives teachers an opportunity to talk with their students about how to create an appropriate profile and how to "clean up" their profiles so they are appropriate for the teacher or their parents ' to view. You know that they are more likely to be on Facebook than email!

The presentation gave an overview and focused on user friendly tools (exelearning, articulate set.), Along the presentation we uploaded life to flickr, youtube and ustream allowing the teachers to see the full potential and impact of some of these tools. This makes it all the more essential to develop tools that attract different learning skills and that are pleasing to a variety of students. 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 ). eLearning presentation

tools like Twitter , FaceBook , Ning , cloud computing ( Google Apps ) , collaborative computing, etc. computer can be a very using learning tool. 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. This post is a little more "pithy" than normal but I think it is a discussion important to mobile learning. Topics to avoid. Read on. will let you Google the topic for more info.

It looks like Nokia is getting ready to roll out their Life Tools, which include mobile learning. They are working with EnableM in India to provide language lessons, quizzes on English words and phrases, and the general knowledge information. The project was announced last November, but just rolling out now. Thanks Twitter @shegeek.) I talked with EnableM's COO last week who updated me on a number of exciting projects and plans to deliver these capabilities in other countries. certainly plan to follow their progress with this exciting project

Some example areas and this is by no means inclusive: * Self-Paced Courses * Performance Support Tools * Mobile Learning * Collaborative Learning * Social / Network Learning * 3D Learning * Games * Toolkits * Interesting Tools We especially would like participants who are developing solutions inside of organizations to participate. A couple of eLearning guru's have started the CLTI community, or Corporate Learning Trends and Innovation community on Ning. could not attend at that time, but I am certainly looking forward to attend any future Learntrends event. Sorry. Go on and join!

Get the Flickr mobile address (you can do this by clicking on uploading tools--upload by email) Step 5: Login to Textmarks. I've had a few emails and comments asking how exactly I set up the Picture on the Fly Challenge. would like to explain my steps. Please remember that I have a basic cell phone (not a Smart phone) therefore, just about anyone with a cell phone should be able to create a Picture on the Fly challenge (or participate in one). Step 1: Create a Keyword in Textmarks. This will allow you to automatically generate participants in the challenge. Sign up for a free account.

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.

Funding obstacles Despite the apparent benefits, not all school districts can incorporate the same tools for their teachers. While larger districts have the resources to fund technology purchases, smaller schools can face challenges to equip their teachers and students with the latest tools. [link] Eunice Morton walked around her desk, grabbing an electronic writing tablet and quickly jabbing it with a stylus. As the Pine Tree High School science teacher moved her hand, a presentation projected onto her classroom wall came to life. million bond election.

It was a quick mash-up, but it resulted in a useful combination of tools that simply look cool. Just a quick note : a useful fix for those working with Articulate presenter and are upgrading to the Flash 10 player. couple of months ago I wrote a post about a combination of Articulate presenter, Captivate, Camtasia, social media incorporation and a high definition webcam. But when the Flash 10 player came along, that presentation no longer loaded in my browser. This was due to a swf file that was not correctly decodable by any of the browsers that used the new Flash 10. and Safari 4.

Mobile Commons’ platform is a complete tool for nonprofits mobile programs—people can raise money, generate huge responses, and participate in effective advocacy. Today I’m pleased to announce the first phase of a really exciting upcoming Mobile Commons project. One of the best ways to generate telephone calls for fundraising or advocacy is mConnect , our product that lets you send out a broadcast text message with an embedded phone number. Users call, hear audio talking points, and are transferred to a destination. We thought so too! Stay tuned!

Our goal at Mobile Commons has always been to provide our customers with the best tools to run the most successful mobile campaigns. Many of our tools have had web components for a long time: Mobile donations and phone calls can be triggered by filling out a web form. 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. The popularity of Facebook goes without saying.

At Mobile Commons, we’ve seen proof of this again and again as we see people use our tools to spread causes and ideas they care about (and now we’ve made that even easier by tying into Facebook and Twitter). “You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. lot of folks on our file at HRC have 3, 4, 5 email addresses and it gets really complicated to match them and figure out who they all are, but they only have one cellphone.&# - Dane Grams, HRC. We’ve embedded the full 8-minute video below.

It was as a result of my personal experiences as a student that I decided that once I had completed my Degree that I would try and return to the education sector to 'give something back' for lack of a better cliche, as I had personally benefited from the range of e-learning tools which enabled me to attain a level of education I had initially dismissed as an irrelevance, if not an impossibility. (From Thomas) Hello, I'm Thomas Curtis and this is a little about me and a mini blog post combined. The future. Moodle, BlackBoard, Bespoke software, some training, no training. learing+2.0

What do you think, should we come up with another term for this powerful continuous learning tool? Lots more mobile learning discussions this week. On Monday I presented at the Wisconsin Charter Schools Association Conference , Tuesday and Wednesday attended the Design4Mobile Conference virtually as well as attending the Mobile Learning Innovation: Healthcare Leads The Way webinar by Ambient Insight, and on Thursday discussed mobile learning on the Masie Consortium call (with over 250 registered participants.) Should we drop the word mobile? Please leave your comments below

use the tools they already have in their pockets! 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!! Liz Kolb:Hi Richard Jeff Stanzler:@)Peggy: absolutely! kcalse Peggy_G:Hi Kim! Great job! Richard@MobileEd.org:thanks! very helpful!

One of the more exciting discoveries I made when I started here was the use of a tool called Votapedia , which allows teachers to get instant responses from students in the manner of “audience response systems&# - simply using students’ mobile phones to dial a number and hang up.  Hello world! My absence from the edublogosphere (is it still called that?  Was it ever called that? D) was noted by many of you, and on behalf of the curveballs that life threw me I would like to humbly apologise for the almost-one-year since my last post. Hmmm… that will do for a start! 

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Top Items: Cell Phone Conferencing A Free Tool for Teaching! Here is the monthly top ten list for cc.mlearnopedia.com from March. Enjoy.

cell phone is just the tool needed. A definition …. and a little history I was preparing for a class on mobile learning for the faculty of my campus. Something to get them thinking or started with mobile learning. was adding a PowerPoint slide on the definition of mobile learning from some sources on the Internet. The definition looked good…. It defined mobile learning essentially as distance or e-learning on a mobile device. This simple definition seems to work but how practical is it for my campus? Our I/T infra-structure is very good. Now from a practical standpoint, my definition.

Just watching the video is enough said about the opportunities to put learning into classrooms and student hands by using the visualization tools and the internet This video is narrated by Drew Berry, who created it. The video is part of SeedMagazine's new feature on science education called The Interpreters.

The latest version of the popular MyLearning Author was released this week, and to help us celebrate, there is a 30% discount for all new licenses bought before the end of the month (March 2009). What's new? No longer just "WindowsMobile", your content can play back on many more mobile devices including several smartphones, UMPC, Mac, Linux, Windows. Some great new activities, Tags: Linux MyLearning gPhone PocketPC android authoring Windows Mobile

This post explores something a little different then there previous two SMS tools. There are some report tools available with the free edition and even more with the paid edition. Polleverywhere.com is free to try and another great tool to get starting with mobile learning in the classroom. I have dedicated this post and the previous two blog posts to free products that might be useful in getting a educator started with mobile computing via text messaging (SMS). Many educators have been using (or are thinking of using) clickers in their classroom. Next up on the blog.

Top Items: Text Message Signatures the mobile project update 1: html + mp4 + mobile moodle Phonecasting: Easy Podcasting Creation and Delivery for Students Sexting & Texting; Schools Role m-Learning in the USA Mobile Learning Tools Mobile Strategies, Mobile Software, Handhelds and PDAs: Questions to Ponder before Starting a Mobile Software Development Project for Handheld PDAs, iPhones and Smartphones Learn More About Mobile in 9 Minutes Cell Phones in Learning Radio Show is BACK!! We will be posting the top 10 lists monthly. Here is the one for cc.mlearnopedia.com from February.

With these two free tools I can keep track of what the web (and/or forums) is producing and what could be of interest to me. Tags: tools knowledge knowledge management informal learning Yesterday I twittered that I was looking forward to the release of the Nokia N97. Nothing special there, but my tweet got intercepted by Nokia and within a couple of hours the twitter account of Nokia N97 (not a bot the twitter account assures me) was following me. Than it dawned on me that I have never been writing a post on alerts. Let’s say you are interested in self-regulated learning ?

Twitter is a personal micro-blog service (used by individual or by organizations as a communication and customer service tool) to shared information and communicate with others who are following you. These tweets can be accessed from the Twitter web site or from tools which have been written to access the Twitter network (i.e. So here we are… another way to keeping students engaged by utilizing a free SMS tool found on the Internet. This post only talks about twitter as a broadcast / alert tool. Message boards, phone calls, etc.). ut there are still more options….!

Recently Lisa Nielsen wrote a wonderful post about what Google SMS can do and how the tool could be useful in education. Like Google SMS, Udefn is a SMS text message referencing tool that is free to anyone. Many educators have posted about the benefits of using Google SMS to help students with reference needs such as translation, weather, local information, stocks, currency exchange rates, and more. My only issue with Google SMS is that the "keyword" is set up by Google, and thus you have to remember a vast number of "keywords" to use the service. Again it is a lot to remember.

Something else you might notice - it doesn’t even directly mention ‘technology’ … hmmm… This is because integrating digital tools for learning = good teaching anyway. Came across this today and had to share. Its an overview of what a 21st century school should look like, and I like it because rather than just being theory or ideas, its very grounded in the practicalities. Head over to HERE (info via Apple) to read the WHY’s behind each of the categories. Authored by jnxyz. Hosted by Edublogs.

But in the case of the “VCommunicator&# program used by the US Army, we see the military adopting a popular consumer tool to help soldiers learn basic Arabic phrases. However, the colonel named in the article also talks about using the learning tool in a soldiers spare time to train to the point where they don’t need to look up the phrases, i.e. use the tool to train to memory vs. an OJT model. Mobile Learning with Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The defense forces of various countries have a long history with mobile technology.

Top Items: Phonecasting: Easy Podcasting Creation and Delivery for Students the mobile project update 1: html + mp4 + mobile moodle Mobile Learning Tools More great tips for Educators starting with Twitter Dane Grams of HRC on their Mobile Successes Capture BlackBerry Screens « Learn-Learn-Learn Video on Mobile Learning « Kerning2.0 Tony Karrer, who created the technology for our content community at [link] , has been working on some other exciting features for us. am really excited to share our first "Hot List" from February 1-14. The posts come from the primary sources for this group.

Perhaps these tools allowing learning to occur anywhere anytime do have a future… Authored by jnxyz. Kudo’s to Tony Vincent at learninginhand.com for finding this article  reporting that students accessing podcasts rather than live lectures performed 9% better on the closing test. Lets be clear, this is only one study, but can it be believed? Hosted by Edublogs.

This was before the nice drag-and-drop tools of today, so over the summer I created over 200 pages using Notepad. We also need to look to Europe and Asia – and even Africa – for successes using mobile devices as a tool in education. All the current controversy about mobile learning in schools seems very familiar. have been involved in learning using technology since 1979 and heard that microcomputers were a fad, the Internet was nothing but porn, and now how terrible cell phones are. This was after the panic that calculators would destroy mathematics. Our students are as well.

Other projects such as short texts which pupils could read before attending class, the presentation of sketches and diagrams, mathematical reminders, recorded messages and videos used in language lessons, can be considered as efficient and well targeted tools which prove to be complementary to school lessons. Philippe Steger just emailed me information about their academic mobile learning initiatives in France. Mobile/cell phones tend to become Personal Assistants. The main interest of this system lies in the fact that it is opened to everyone and it is quite cheap.

Well, one tool you may reach for is a blog. The blog is a great way to build content fast because most major blogging tools are free, easy to use and offer a powerful set of tools to author content. With all the tools out there these days, it’s become increasingly easy to create content and upload it for all to see and even to subscribe to with rss. Mofuse is a tool that’s been around for awhile (I think), and I had heard of it, but never used it. For more info on tools, you can check out another tool called utterli.

Last week in Atlanta vendors competed in a Mobile Learning Tools Shootout In January we tasked the vendors with taking a mobile demonstration site, [link] , to the next level. Please feel free to create it anyway you’d like utilizing the features of your tool. Tags: tools authoring had created this initial site last year to demonstrate a quick and easy mobile performance support site. The guidelines were: We don’t want to tell you exactly how to structure your materials. Basically, do whatever you feel meets the Objective listed below. See some screen shots to the right.

Each week we will review existing tools for social change, cover techniques for mobile hacking, and piece together new experiments. I just read an interesting post on MobileActive. It mentioned a new graduate course/seminar being offered at MIT. The graduate seminar (Call4Action) focuses on how mobile phones and other devices are being used around the world for activism. According to MobileActive, this is the first graduate course to be offered on the benefits of mobile phones for activist organizations. Below is part of the description of the seminar. Can Web2.0 organize labor?

There are plenty of Twitter tools for mobile devices too, like Twinkle, Tweetie and Twibble. Trying to take Twitter seriously without one of these tools is just making life hard for yourself. I’ve recently had the privelege of corresponding with several educators more experienced than I regarding micro-blogging service twitter (that has now become so much more!). Enjoy: “I can understand the sceptics…  I was one for a long time. Twitter works because it invites diversity and traffic. Don’t stop until you are following at least 40-50 people. Get one. Chris.

However, beyond these tools there are some even more capable options that also plug into the possibilities of Web2.0 I’ve had loads of fun lately I must admit just trying out mindmapping/ visual organiser software. So much so that I’ve started incorportating them into my workflows both at school and home/study, and have even written a 2000 word article describing my journey. While its under review for possible publication old-printed-style, I wanted to at least post my conclusions/choices here. That way you can cut right to the chase and start downloading! Authored by jnxyz.

With this tool, anyone could read a book a page a day or learn a subject little by little. Today I listened to a podcast from Jan 28 in which “E-Learning Einstein&# Stephen Downes was interviewed on a few subjects. What caught my interest the most was probably his comments on serialized RSS feeds. This is an idea, which has been around for a little while, but which has not really come to life. Funded by the NRC, Downes is helping to develop a system which enables teachers, trainers, students and trainees to create RSS feeds which start only when someone is adding the feed.

Jeanne C Meister wrote an interesting short article about people who use Twitter as a training tool. It it old news, that Twitter is quickly gaining on other large social sites such as Facebook.  Since Twitter only allows for 140 characters, it is truly a micro learning experience and can be easily updated -or read- with a mobile phone. One thing which has not been addressed in the article, and which personally worries me most is how Twitter will be able to actually be profitable. Article: [link]. My Twitter: www.twitter.com/mlearningman.

have played around with this app for half of the day now and I am convinced that it is one of the best m-learning tools for the iPhone yet.  However, this is nothing which should stop anyone from using this tool for his class or business for a mere $2. A quick few words on the “multi Quiz&# App for the iPhone. It is a quiz app where anyone can create their own quizzes and then publish them or keep them private. After playing any quiz the player (or learner rather) can see the his/her rank online and rate the quiz.  Great product! Description: [link]. App Link:  [link].

According to Shuler, schools must learn to use the mobile phone as a tool to encourage children to learn more. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop has released a study which demands a national mobile learning strategy for the USA. The organization was the “mastermind&# behind the world-famous TV show Sesame Street and now plans to influence mobile learning as much as TV-based learning for young children. It also emphasizes my personal opinion, which is that international standards do not only need to exist, but they must also be enforced by the public.

The Atlanta-based SimpleLeap developers offer 2 mobile learning tools with “Cram 1.1″ ″ Cram is a flashcard and quiz tool for Blackberrys, iPhones and iPod Touch. Both mobile learning tools cost $9.99 Today I am taking a quick look at SimpleLeap mobile learning software. ″ and “Appetite 1.1″ The user can create questions and multiple choice answers directly on their mobile or on most text editors on their regular PC. “Appetite&# is a recipe organizer, which also helps to keep track of groceries to buy. Link: [link].

At Mobile Commons, we’ve seen proof of this again and again as we see people use our tools to spread causes and ideas they care about (and now we’ve made that even easier by tying into Facebook and Twitter). “You have one cell phone number and generally it does stay with you forever. lot of folks on our file at HRC have 3, 4, 5 email addresses and it gets really complicated to match them and figure out who they all are, but they only have one cellphone.&# - Dane Grams, HRC. We’ve embedded the full 8-minute video below.

The fall in cost of usage is on various counts, such as: Volumes bringing in economies of scale; discovery of connectivity as a tool for increasing efficiency in businesses or remaining in touch with family and friends; affordability increasing volumes; and copying by those uninitiated adding to the volumes. News Update Service Wednesday, January 28, 2009 : 1155 Hrs RSS Feeds Sections Top Stories National International Regional Business Sport Sci. Entertainment Agri. BK) Syngal , former Chairman and Managing Director of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL). Mr Syngal, a B.Tech. Look at MMS.

This is an opportunity for students to learn about the artifacts in the museum and create an authentic tool for the museum. I have been investigating a resource called Phonecasting. Phonecasting is created by the same group that developed Podlinez. posted last year about Podlinez. Podlinez has the ability to turn any RSS feed (audio or text) into a podcast you can hear on the phone. Phonecasting offers a similar function with a bonus. Like Podlinez , Phonecasting is a free resource which allows you to listen to any podcast via landlines or cell phone. love this option!!!

A dramatic shift occurred at this time as I met new people and this exposure led to an experimentation in, and then a full adoption of, online tools.  How do I unite my love for mobile digital tools, my passion for educating kids and my current role as an administrator?  While I will likely shut down that history blog at some point in the near future, I want to continue this one as I believe that mobile learning is the future and conversations around these tools need to continue.  I’ve reached another crossroads in both my physical and online lives. 

Our goal at Mobile Commons has always been to provide our customers with the best tools to run the most successful mobile campaigns. Many of our tools have had web components for a long time: Mobile donations and phone calls can be triggered by filling out a web form. 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. The popularity of Facebook goes without saying.

What Tools Could They Use to Send Out the Mobile Marketing? While most schools probably cannot afford to sign up with Mobile Posse to send out advertisements and marketing coupons, they could use other free web tools that couple with cell phones. Increasingly the business world has been including mobile marketing campaigns. For example, Little Caesars Pizza just ran a mobile marketing campaign where they asked people to text "Crazy" to 269411. This mobile campaign has a global reach, H&M's campaign spans 27 different countries! How are companies delivering their coupons?

However, we don’t really view our mobile devices as an authoring tool. believe we have mobile devices with the horsepower to create solid individual pieces right now, but we need tools to facilitate the creation of rich segments of training that can be uploaded in a sequence to create a whole training package. In the mean time, seeing the growing acceptance on mobile devices to reach out to the cloud and to our corporate tools is very encouraging for mobile learning. Many of us look at our mobile device as a window onto the web, in the same way we look at our PCs.

My issue with this model is that it means these suites are only rarely used for a bit of googling or typing up assignments, not as interactive teaching tools. Walk into any school probably across the western world and you’re likely to find a mix of technologies. Some Desktops, some laptops, some wireless equipment, some handhelds perhaps. Management is deciding now on the IT that the students will use in the new building, as everything will be built from scratch. Currently, the school has one ICT suite per department, each containing about 25-30 PCs. Thin client tablets?

Like the chattering that its name implies, micro-blogging turned mass communication tool Twitter now seems to be heard everywhere. Download now or preview on posterous. pastedGraphic.pdf (11 KB). Twitter, twitter, twitter. So overwhelming has it been that while I joined some time ago, I’ve got serious in the last month and now consider it the fourth leg of my personal learning network after Google Reader, Facebook, and Email discussion lists. Wiki just for teachers using twitter: twitter4teachers. TWITTER AS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE FOR EDUCATORS: MICROBLOGGING EXPLORED.

iBlueAngel - A Magic Web Tool Hung Duong. Productivity - well all want to increase it right? If you’re an iPhone user, take a look at this browser app which purports to let you copy and paste, save images of any part of a webpage, email slected text and the pages URL, - all with one search bar (ala Google’s Chrome) and easier tab navigation. There are no reviews yet though - any one like to give it a go? Release Date: Jan 12, 2009 Genre: Productivity © Hung Duong. iTunes for Mac and Windows. This message was sent to jnxyz@mac.com. Copyright © 2009 Apple Inc.

Are any others across the world ready to tackle the fact that social media are now legitimate, functioning tools of modern life. So while social media may not yet be required tools, their widespread use for modern two-way communication should get Educators thinking ‘How can we use them to enrich learning and connect learners?’ I know that the Education Department I work for will soon be trialing an in-house, protected social network for Teachers and one for students. ’ Posted via email from Jonathan’s posterous. Authored by jnxyz. Hosted by Edublogs.

New interfaces, the ability to run third-party applications, and location-awareness have all come to the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking. Yesterday the New Media Center (NMC), along with EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), released their 2009 Horizon Report. This 36-page annual report identifies Mobiles now with a time-to adoption of one year or less, from the two to three years identified in 2008. You can download the report here

this is an interesting tool called utterli. the tool allows me to blog while mobile in a different manor than twitter. the interconnectivity in these tools is amazing. it also allows me to cross post to my regular blog at wordpress. hope it opens up opportunities to share more mibile experiences. Mobile post sent by Ben_mobile using Utterli. Replies.

great opportunity for students to take advantage of their cell phones and turn them into data collecting tools for journalism! News organizations are eager for those perfect inauguration pictures and videos! There are many opportunities for students to snap a few pictures (or take some video) and possible get them published through a popular news organization. just read a great post from Andy Carvin , about the students at Worcester Academy in Massachusetts who are documenting their inaugural experiences via their own cell phones. Send Text: Send a text message to 66937.

ASTD’s TechKnowledge 2009 in Las Vegas, NV, January 28-30 where I will be presenting and conducting two hands-on workshops Training 2009 Conference & Expo in Atlanta, GA, February 9-11, 2009 where I will be conducting a mobile learning tools “Shoot Out” Guild 2009 Annual Gathering in Orlando, FL, March 10-13 where I will be involved in more mobile learning sessions I am also trying to work in attending ACU’s ConnectEd Conference in Abilene, TX, February 26-27, but won't confirm for a couple weeks.  After the Holiday break, it is again conference time.

Last week I was at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas seeking mobile learning related tools and announcements. There are so many used for this tool in education and training. The biggest mobile news in my opinion was that of the Palm Pre. The demo was very impressive and it should again move the industry, but until we get a chance to put it through its paces we will have to wait. The one thing that we know is that despite the down economy there will be new mobile devices hitting the market, each touting new improvements. For a good overview see Engadget’s review.

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3) Learn what tools are important in their students lives and in the future of society. Develop and teach lessons that integrate these tools. I just saw a very interesting report called Ready to Innovate which was sponsored by the Conference Board. The report asks the question, Are Educators and Executives Aligned on the Creative Readiness of the U.S. Workforce? The report surveyed both educators and business leaders about what are important 21st Century skills pertaining to "creativity." am guilty of this myself! What do you think? And what about the issue of standardize testing?

Read the rest at: Is Twitter Being Used As A Training Tool? Twitter , a social networking platform used for microblogging, is a free service that lets you send the briefest of messages (with a maximum of 140 characters) to everyone in your network. It marries the mass appeal of blogging with the speed and ease of text messaging. There has been a growing interest in how to use these new forms of social media for learning & development. New Learning Playbook. mlearning m-learning mobile-learning mobile+learning podcasting iphone apple web+2.0 learing+2.0 eLearning.

Text a Novel or Textbook Since the text messages are collected in order of when they were sent, students could summarize a novel, write their own short novel, or collaborate on a textbook through text messaging with this tool. Imagine being able to send text messages back and forth between yourself and your students, or yourself and your student's parents, or yourself and members of a committee. Imagine students creating their own text messaging campaign, where they are the experts on a topic, and they can invite others to join in on their discussion through text messaging.

Therefore I wanted to compare a few other tools similar to Jott that allow for FREE speech to text translation/messaging services. The bad news is the one of my favorite resources Jott, is out of beta. This means that some of the best features you have to pay for. While it is not expensive, I am not a proponent of asking students or teachers to pay for resources. Dial2Do I am becoming a big fan of this site. It is quick and easy to use. You call in to Dial2Do, tell them what you want to do ("email" "text" "twitter" "reminder") and then speak your message.

And though text messaging may sound like an unlikely tactic to get Gen Yers to take action (and rather one that’s primarily used as a social communications tool) Rock the Vote’s results are astounding. Jordan just put up a great post on the Convio Connection Cafe about Rock the Vote’s results with text messaging. An excerpt and video are below: Rock the Vote’s Executive Director Heather Smith shared one of the organization’s most effective strategies on a panel earlier this year: fueling the youth movement on the “4th screen” to mobilize youth voters like never before.

Credo Wireless , an early Mobile Commons customer,  in partnership with the Student PIRGS New Voters Project and the University of Notre Dame just released a study testing txt messaging as a voter turnout tool. First of all, I would like to introduce myself; I’m Nathan Woodhull. joined the Mobile Commons team as a Software Developer a month and a half ago, and have been busy adding features and working to improve the performance of the platform ever since. One of the great things about working at Mobile Commons is seeing how our amazing customers use our platform.

Mobile Commons’ platform is a complete tool for nonprofits mobile programs—people can raise money, generate huge responses, and participate in effective advocacy. Today I’m pleased to announce the first phase of a really exciting upcoming Mobile Commons project. One of the best ways to generate telephone calls for fundraising or advocacy is mConnect , our product that lets you send out a broadcast text message with an embedded phone number. Users call, hear audio talking points, and are transferred to a destination. We thought so too! Stay tuned!

Often in this blog, and other education-related blogs that I read, the focus of  blog posts is often on the technology tools themselves, why these tools should be incorporated into the classroom to help students learn and how-to’s of accomplishing this tasks.  However, sometimes I feel a desire to be philosophical and look at the state of how things really are and where things are going.  At this point in time, feeling this way is especially tempting for me as I work with my network to get the Ontario Educator Meetup off the ground. link]. browse the Internet.

digital tools.  Many educators who are new to digital spaces often complain that they are overwhelmed by all the content or that they ‘don’t get’ tools like Twitter.  I hope that by using a web conferencing tool such as Adobe Connect and encouraging dialogue among members of a network, this space can act as a starting point for educators willing to learn more about social networks and getting involved in a PLN but are unsure about where, how or why to focus their energies on this pursuit. How could we help convert the unconverted? 

Premium users can now access a variety of learning tools at m.spanishsense.com, and m.chinesepod.com. To coinside with the launch of the iPhone, Ken Carroll announced their own mobile initiative in his blog. The mobile sites provide…a) Discussion, Dialogue, Key Vocabulary and Expansion Sentences for all scheduled lessons b) The ability to save new words to your vocabulary list c) Vocabulary list review, and flashcards d) The ability to access and participate in all your conversationsSee.

There are a number of additional tools available to quickly create a mobile site including Mob5.com, Winksite.com and Mobisite Galore. Thanks to a heads up from Leonard Low, I tried Wirenode for an easy mobile blog. It took less than a minute to set this up. Check the mobile version of this blog out at mlearnopedia.wirenode.mobi. Wirenode provides the standard text, image, header, list or separator capabilities, but also enables you to easily add widgets. These include widgets for an RSS blog.

My goal is in my sabbatical to locate software and tools that are open source (preferably) and free for academic use. In the morning news. In this mornings Wall Street Journal - Tech Blog , Ben Worthen did a very good job summarizing what I believe is the direction of mobile application development. There is no clear platform that has won the standards war so Apple (iPhone), Google (Android), RIM (Blackberry) and Microsoft ( Smartphone and Mobile PC) will continue to fight it out. Diversity is good and we can expect the technology to only get better.

Any software tools I can develop will only help adoption and use of personal wireless devices As August 18 approaches and the official start of my sabbatical, I thought those reading this blog might be interested in what I hope to accomplish (at a minimum). expect that given the changes that we have seen in the cell phone market regarding applications, much new material will be added and the project will grow. Stayed tuned… much more to co me. The benefit will be to both students and faculty.

site summary has been added and soon I will be asking others to help me in testing some of the tools and applications I have developed. Google think this experience will benefit me and my students as I return to GCC this spring and the plan to use Google Tools across MCCCD. Communication Plan: I have now spent my first week working full time on my sabbatical. It has been a productive week since it has give me the opportunity to concentrate on how I want to disseminate my research and also some boundaries on what projects I want to focus on. It will focus on major events.

The best thing about.mobi is its resources and a tool that will test your web pages to see how well they will function on a mobile device and what would need to be done to make the pages "mobile ready". This is the second time I have seen quality open source learning tools come from our friends in the south pacific. The project is essential a tool that works with the FireFox browser to give the web page author a series of iDevices that can add content to a web page. You can have multiple pages and a visual tool tracks the pages built. Below some specifics.

The Java environment is one that has been in place for some time and offers the mobile app designer a variety of processes and tools for development. Part of this is that I am a more experienced.Net programmer and partly because the.Net development tools are much more robust (more function). T his blog entry is a little later than normal. For the last week and a half, I have been working to clone my.Net GCC Mapz thick client application into a similar version written as a Java MIDlet. When it comes to thick clients, there is no one common mobile app solution (yet!).Net, for CLDC.

Put with a smartphone , it can be a very powerful tool. A fter a couple of trying weeks with the Java Wireless Toolkit, my spirits have been lifted with Google Andorid. Still Java (probably my favorite programming language), the Android Toolkit with the Eclipse IDE provided a very robust development environment. Not only did it offer superior debug facility but also syntax help at a mouse click (a very important feature when you are using a new programing environment). If your new to the technology, creating a program from scratch is very difficult.

T his week was Demonstration Week for my web page tool. had the opportunity to show a couple of people the web pages created by my mobile web page tool. It is important to remind everyone that the goal of this tool is to provide a easy to use web development editor that will create a single web page that will be readable on a PC sized monitor or a mobile display. Normally, a web page designed for a PC will shrink to microscopic size when viewed by browsers loaded on a cell phone. See how it works! This site is maintained by Opera to demonstrate their mobile browser.

Using the tool for the pocketCourse project has opened my eyes to some new features that should be helpful. T his week has been catch up on documentation and samples. The pocketCourse project code is essentially done so I have been using MLEX (note name change from MLX to MLEX ). have three pocket course lectures done. need to have completed courses to really test out the concept. think pocketCourse could have some benefits for home bound students or folks overseas (maybe military). am waiting for my new bluetooth usb dongle to arrive from Hong Kong.

With there new Java tool, I might have a chance to create a BB version of my GCC Mapz program. T his week I put the finishing touches on the pocketCourse beta. Since I used MLEX to put together the pages, I also made usability improves on that project also. I have more written up on pocketCourse along with a screen cast to show how it works.  pocketCourse underwent a few changes from its original design. I also did some work on the color scheme and integrated more icons as opposed to text buttons. The user interface is now very clean and I think functional.

These tools have  merit but they do cost $ and they get lost, and they have to be handed out and collected. B luetooth and I have had a troubled start. was able to use built in Bluetooth services for my phone and PC but ran into some problems when I tried to use the Bluetooth serial port communication between two computers. My hope was to establish a client server communication between two devices much like a student might connect to a on campus service with there cell phone. Perseverance prevails. Bluetooth provides the communication link in this simple client server application. 

With MCLI I hope to create a presentation for a dialogue day workshop to show other faculty how to use my MLEX application and document conversion tools. My hope is that I can get a lot of faculty to use the tool and provide feedback to make it better.  A s my sabbatical draws to a close,  I have been working on plans to distribute my mobile tech findings. have been working to better publicise what I have built this fall during my sabbatical and also working with MCLI and GCC to set up demonstrations and workshops to show others how to create contents for mobile devices. 

have finished a beta version of the MLX (mobile learning experiment) tool. have talked about this tool in the blog and on the mobileDot web site. have been also using the tool to prepare some content for my GCC Spring 2009 classes. It is using the tool and more fully testing features (and adding enhancements that have been slowing me down. I have held out on this weeks blog as long as I can and unfortunately I was not able to get everything done that I had planned. If anything, it might prompt some visits to my web site. Decisions. decisions.

Have you seen the latest output from the MLX 1 tool that creates one html page that can be viewed on a PC (large screen) or mobile device (small screen)? W ith the economy dominating the new$, it has also impacted the mobile device market. As companies wait to see what consumer spending will look like, announcements on new products and features seemed to have slowed. It is hard to tell what the impact to my project will be except to say that the impacts may not be fully seen until after the election and the holidays. was surprised a the number of options and the pricing.

To take existing technology tools and software and combine, simplify and integrate. To this end, I have taken the findings of my first three weeks of work on thin clients and created a tool called mLearning Experimental 1. This meets one of my goals which it to have a tool that allows faculty to create a page once and let the student view it from either a PC or mobile device. One of the goals for my sabbatical is not to reinvent the wheel in regards to mobile apps but to make creating content for the average faculty developer, easier.

My reflections on the conference to come soon… Tags: tools mobilelearning Mobilelearner ECOO On Friday November 14th, 2008, I delivered a presentation on mobile learning at the ECOO 2008 Conference titled “Mobile Learning: Embracing Handheld Devices for the Post-Pencil Classroom&#.  If you are interested in my presentation, you can view the slideshow here: [link].

With the wide variety of multimedia resources and creation tools available on the Internet, the wide variety of hardware that is available in our schools (both school property and property brought to school by the students themselves) and many of these resources available to teachers and students for free, the argument that we need more resources is a weak one in my mind.  In addition, please do not interpret my conclusions as a critique of all teachers because I know that there are many teachers who are doing innovating things with the technology tools that they have available. 

Cell phones are not longer just tools used for mobile voice communication.  It’s interesting to see how different our tools have become.  It will be interesting to see what the next 19 years will bring… Tags: tools Mobilelearner cell phone reflections cell_phone I recently came across this 1989 cell phone commercial on YouTube: It’s very interesting to see how much has changed since 1989 - a mere 19 years as of this writing.  In addition, those number keys have become smaller and high quality colour screens have filled the void.

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Therefore, we’ll begin by focusing on tools that all of today’s cell phones have. If adults in the workplace use devices for calculations and we are preparing students for life in the real world as an adult, why do we push older stdents to work without those tools that can help them succeed? These tools are very useful for all students and especially those who need their instruction differentiated due to issues with fine motor skills or other needs.  Today’s phones contain productivity tools that help adults stay organized and more productive. 

He mentioned that while other staff at his school are lukewarm to the idea of bring in a gaming console to encourage physical activity, he finds it to be a useful tool.  It appears that this is a new way digital tools are transforming our social relationships and the way we form community.  I am going to deviate from my typical topic of conversation to share some experiences, reflections and conversations I have had of late concerning the use of interactive gaming in learning.  However, some recent experiences and discussions merit some consideration here.

What this means is that you can develop full scale mobile applications with the Flash Authoring Tool and deploy them to devices running Windows Mobile. To see an example application that I created, check out my mobile learning tool called Burst. Burst is a demonstration and performance support tool, but if you look at the capabilities of Flash Lite, you can imagine that it could be used to develop several different learning solutions Microsoft is now licensing Flash Lite for Windows Mobile. Burst was built with Flash Lite 2.1, which was the predecessor to FL 3.

he is always looking for easy access language tools. Try out Vociz ! This is one great invention coming from Erwin De Vries , put to my attention by the ever great blogger Willem Karssenberg, aka trendmatcher (in Dutch). Erwin teaches German at the Willem Lodewijk Gymnasium in Groningen. He has developed a Voicemailboard which allows everyone with flash enabled computers to post mp3-messages in a really easy fashion (= no installation, just push record, play back to ensure and send to yourself and the voicerecord keeper to add it to all of the recordings). Really great. button.

For the mobile enthusiasts out there (and if you have not put in a paper) look below. am part of the review committee and the conference and speakers looks promising. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process: IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2009 Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009 * Keynote Speakers (confirmed): Professor Angela McFarlane , Director of Content and Learning at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK Professor Hiroaki Ogata , Dept. New genres of filmmaking and photography where the message gains ground over the form are developing.

What are the tools you can use to Many of the learners on our m-learning projects started as very unconfident users of PCs. One of the surprise findings was that involvement in mobile learning was a very solid launch pad into mainstream ICT learning. Mobile learners were building confidence to become ICT learners. This finding has been confirmed in several LSN reports and papers But what next?

We have been dabbling with it for a while, but what I am looking at right now is materials, built by a non-technical author, using our Mylearning authoring tool. This is a hot-off-the-press sneak preview. have just seen some of our mobile learning materials running on a PSP! The games were intended for display on a PocketPC, but the team here in cambridge have been reconfiguring

Cam video camera that plugs into the top of it, and you have a seriously mobile and creative video editing tool. Have any of you PSP people found out about Go! Edit yet? If you are using PSP's for education, you have no reason not to! It is a free to download that lets you edit video on your PSP. Add it to the Go!Cam You can get all the lowdown on the Go!Edit Edit site, though a better place to start

We build applications for all sorts of different phones, and despite the hype, many of the development tools and platforms we use are fairly stable: (MMS, SMS, Flash, Flash Lite, C for PPC etc). The one technology that we seem to be endlessly tweaking is Java for phones (J2ME), because despite the good-karma that surrounds java's "runs on any device" ethos, the harsh reality is that each phone

If, like us, you use your PocketPc as a shareable learning device and NOT as businessman's tool you will know the frustration of having to tell ActiveSync NOT to form a lasting friendship with your devices everytime you Every now and again I stumble over a small technical solution that makes a big difference to my sanity. Here is an essential one for anybody managing multiple PocketPC devices.

I am part of the team creating several different mobile learning tools. One of our tools, Mylearning author We make: mobile contenttools to help teachers make their own mobile contentplatforms to help people use SMS and MMS as educational resourcesas well as spending much of our time exploring the pedagogies around mobile learning. That was a rather long buildup to a very specific bit of news.