We debate which mobile devices (e.g. PDA, ipod, mobile phone) to use for mlearning? And it is good to hear differing opinions from people like Stuart Smith and Nick Cowie on the use of mobile phones. But more importantly, we have others reflecting on whether they should be letting their students take their mobile [...]
Will Mobiles Be THE Tool of The Future?
August 22nd, 2007 · 6 Comments
Tags: mlearning & mobile devices
Please Wait a Sec, Just Need to Check Training Info on My Mobile Phone?
August 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Most of your training is in the workplace but all your work mates are busy, no-one has time to remind you what to do, and you have asked the same question too many times before. WHAT you going to do? Phone HOME or better still access the answers on your mobile phone! [Image by [...]
Tags: mlearning & mobile devices
What can we do about policies that are stifling innovation in educational uses of technology?
August 18th, 2007 · 9 Comments
My final post for this week’s series on mobile technology focuses on the great challenge and barrier facing uptake of m-learning: our organisation and Government policies on the use of technologies with students.
Yesterday Dianne posted this comment “All of these devices are banned under our student code of behavior, although if cellphones are turned [...]
Tags: Working With Web 2.0 Tools · mlearning & mobile devices
How are we going to effectively use the mobile devices in our student’s pockets?
August 17th, 2007 · 4 Comments
So far in this week’s series on mobile technology in education I have discussed:
Are UMPCs Going to Convert Courses from Paper Based to Digital?
Mobile Web Usage is Increasing – How Will You Use It With Students?
You Need Spyglasses – Are you Serious?
Barcodes, RFID and NFC technology – use in education and training explained in Sue [...]
Tags: mlearning & mobile devices
Mobile Web Usage is Increasing – How Will You Use It With Students?
August 13th, 2007 · 5 Comments
This week I will be doing a series of posts on the use of mobile technology in education. Yesterday I asked the question are UMPCs Going to Convert Courses from Paper Based to Digital?
So today – I want to know how do you plan to use the Mobile Web with students?… and I will show [...]
Tags: mlearning & mobile devices
Are UMPCs Going to Convert Courses from Paper Based to Digital?
August 12th, 2007 · 18 Comments
This week I will be doing a series of posts on the use of mobile technology in education.
So being the first post – I decided to start off with probably the most thought provoking… the Ultra-Mobile PC (commonly termed UMPC)… and show you a school in the UK that has set up a wireless network [...]
Tags: mlearning & mobile devices
Why I use PDAs in the classroom
August 2nd, 2007 · 8 Comments
New term has begun and out come the PDAs for the students to work with (PDAs are small pocket size computers that run mobile applications like mobile Word, Excel and Internet Explorer). Always fascinating to hear their response the first time they start using them, such as “Do we get to keep them?”, “How much [...]
