Great video from TechDis.
Alistair McNaught of JISC TechDis discusses the benefits of mobile learning, and the resources available from JISC TechDis to help increase the accessibility of many mobile technologies.
St Austell
So here I am down in Cornwall for the Cornwall College ILT Fair. I am down here as a MoLeNET Mentor providing specialist support for Cornwall College. I have been asked to do four workshops on mobile learning with some Web 2.0 thrown in as well.
Rather than do four identical sessions I will be doing four different ones.
I have my bag of stuff so can show lots of things. Also have a case of PSPs with cameras that will be used. Hoping to stream some of the sessions using Qik or Ustream. Will be posting to Twitter as well.
Should be fun.
PSP Phone
The iPhone has dominated the thoughts of many, more so with the release of the new iPhone 3GS. I have met many e-learning professionals and lots of them use iPhones and extol the benefits of the iPhone. The same is happening across the country and elsewhere in the world
Reuters reports that
Sony Corp is considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid in a bid to better compete with Apple Inc’s highly popular iPod and iPhone.
The PSP is a very popular gaming console, I can’t though see the PSP Phone as an alternative to the iPhone, but more a different beast appealing to a different audience.
e-Learning Stuff Podcast #025: To tether or not to tether
James talks about his opinion of Apple’s new iPhone 3GS. He talks about the new features, the 3MP camera, video, digital compass, faster hardware, internet tethering.
He mentions JoikuSpot, the Nokia N95, MiFi, wifi hotspots and the WiFi Zone and Wifi Trak iPhone applications. He then reviews his new Polaroid Pogo printer and finishes off on Evernote.
This is the twenty-fifth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, To tether or not to tether.
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James is on his own this week.
Shownotes
- Apple launch the new iPhone 3GS which has some nice new capabilities.
- JoikuSpot allows you to use your wifi phone, such as the Nokia N95, as a wireless access point.
- The MiFi is a 3G wireless access point, which runs on battery.
- WiFi Zone and WiFi Trak are iPhone applications which allow you to find WiFi hostspots (both links are iTunes Store links)
- The Polaroid Pogo is a Bluetooth portable battery powered printer which prints 3″ x 2″ sticker prints using a zero ink technology called Zink.
- Evernote is a web based note application.
Using the PSP
Luke Fletcher from Gloucestershire College talks candidly about how he used the PSP with camera with his learners.
Luke was in the office for a chat, when a colleague (off camera) asked him how he found using the PSPs, luckily for I had a camera to hand, so I just picked it up and hit record and caught this wonderful natural narrative from Luke about using the PSP.
Open Educational Resources
Those who know me know that I am a huge fan of sharing and collaboration. It was a key part of my role at the Western Colleges Consortium and I have contined to promote sharing of practice and resources.
Back in 2002, MIT launched their OpenCourseWare, and I on this blog reported in December 2007 about Yale’s entry into this field.
Yesterday, JISC officially launched the Open Educational Resources programme.
Open Educational Resources (OER), funded by HEFCE and run by the Academy and JISC, aims to make a wide range of learning resources created by academics freely available, easily discovered and routinely re-used by both educators and learners.
OER could include full courses, course materials, complete modules, notes, videos, assessments, tests, simulations, worked examples, software, and any other tools or materials or techniques used to support access to knowledge. These resources will be released under an intellectual property license that permits open use and adaptation.
As well as providing a wealth of resources which can be used (and much of the material can be used in FE as well as HE courses) it also sends a message to universities and college that it is okay to share and good to share. It should have a positive impact on your reputation and enhance and enrich the learning experience of your learners.
RSC SW Summer Conference
Despite earlier problems with embedding a Flickr slideshow into a WordPress.com blog, Vodpod appears to have resolved the issue.
Here is a slideshow of photographs I took at the RSC SW Summer Conference.
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more about “RSC SW Conference“, posted with vodpod
e-Learning Stuff Podcast #024: Sounds good to me
Audio recording, sound recording, podcasting, content and then some.
This is the twenty-fourth e-Learning Stuff Podcast, Sounds good to me.
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James is joined by Mell Turford and David Sugden.
Shownotes
- To follow…
Keynoting in the South-West
This morning myself and David Sugden delivered the keynote for day two at the JISC Regional Support Centre South West Summer Conference.
Our keynote was entitled, Cultural Confidence.
We used Activexpression, learner response systems, with the audience to allow them to interact with the keynote.
We also used Ustream to stream a video of the presentation, however flaky wireless meant that we kept losing the stream, however I did also record the presentation using my HD video camera.
I will post the video and the slides later, when I have sufficient bandwidth to upload.
Down the road…
Over the next two days I am attending the JISC Regional Support Centre South West Summer Conference 2009 which is just down the road for me in Rookery Manor in Somerset, just South of Weston-super-Mare.
I am presenting (with David Sugden) a keynote tomorrow morning and running a workshop later on in the day.
This afternoon I am on an expert panel which will be interesting as I have no idea about what we will be asked!
Today’s keynote is from Derek Law who is going to be running the JISC Services Management company which goes live in August.
Was quite interesting, now onto the workshops.