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Opinions differ on text based material on mobile devices from those who believe the zoom feature of phones like the iPhone means that material developed for the web will need little or no change for use to people that believe the exact opposite (e.g. limited amount of text per screen, essential text only).
This video might [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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?

Today I am going to discuss how asking simple questions like please explain:

What are [...]

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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 [...]

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Aquaculture lecturer fainted when she recieved the SMS from Telstra, when she was in Geraldton this morning, apparently she has exceeded her data plan limit by 259% – not sure whether the words are oops or sheesh.
So while the solution to lack of Internet access on my laptop was solved by using my PDA – [...]

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Tomorrow morning I am flying (small plane – Fokker 50 – and weather is really bad) to Central West TAFE in Geraldton for their Quality week (as part of my commitment to the fresh thinking program) where I will be doing workshops on e-learning and m-learning. So far I have been to Swan [...]

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The shift from classroom based delivery to workplace delivery and workforce development means VET lecturers will need tools to ensure greater mobility. I don’t believe that one size will fit all; individual preferences and varying workplace environments circumstances will need different solutions. However I do believe that you need to start by focusing [...]

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As part of my role in the Fresh Thinking Program I was fortunate enough to be invited to Pilbara TAFE to do a workshop on mobile technology (in particular PDAs). This definitely felt like a case of how much can you fit into 24 hours; and felt like going to two different seasons in [...]

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Marcus Ragus and Daniel Dacey were invited to Perth for the WA Training Forum (they were here from 14 to 17 May) to do a presentation on Smart Tags for Smart Learning. This meant Frances McLean and myself got to spend most of the week with Marcus and Daniel talking about mobile technology and [...]

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