Mobile Technologies workshop May 2009

• Papers for IPhone now out - (the Dartmouth Papers service)- add info to the Libguides 

• flip camera - $150 (video) ease to shoot. size of digital camera- with USB port & video editor (Kodak) 
• IPod touch - Herb; incl phone $220-600 / wireless (Colby server), no fee, apps
• SmartPen - scans, writes and records audio - students using at Colby 
• Picassa? - Googles' version of Flickr
• 2d 1/4 of 2008 - more text messages sent per month than phone - caught up to rest of world -- we were ONLY country that had more phone (voice)
• Bluetooth - very short range
• Emerging: WiMax - very long range, dozens of miles- tree leaves are a problem tho
  •  White spaces- parts of the spectrum that aren't taken yet
• Sprint PC card- acts as a cell phone into laptop while traveling- get internet access thru cell phone network
• other phones to watch: Google Android - Samsung (T-Mobile)
• Palm Pre - $200 (only Sprint)

Social use Web 2.0

• easier on mobile devices (short, quick)
• Africa has one of the most creative cell phone usage
• can combine device w/a web service (Facebk, Twitter)

Interfaces changing:

• [Doug Engleburt (invented "mouse" 1968)]
• tiny keyboard- people love but won't give up
• stylus - hasn't taken off
• touchscreen (IPhone) now popular - lots advantages, but games hard
• mouse might wane - they argue (blog) that people don't need much anymore http://letblog.nitle.org/2008/07/21/the_mouse_soon_to_decline_gartner/

Mobile devices tend to be proprietary - not Open source (to preserve revenue)

Openpub - new distribution system trying to take off

Digital Campus - George Mason, blog on technology issues

Podcasting a big business

• Podcast Alley - best place for them
• can subscribe thru Bloglines

Devices:

• tablets
• GPS devices (alternate reality AR)
• Clickers - there is a set on campus (older, need line of sight)

LibriVox- volunteers read books in public domain- all free

Campus apps:

• Duke (DukeMobile), Stanford - apps to download from IPhone - map, restaurants, catalog content, campus history- resource intensive  (PR, Alumni Rel)
• mobile campus site to bring together mobile content (2009 seems to be the yr when schools decide if to do)
• Seton Hall does a lot of experimenting - Kindles, etc (do away w/dedicated labs)
• Franklin & Marshall blogging what are doing in the classroom w/technology - mLearning at Franklin & Marshall

student instruction: have them speak about attention. Quiet, no input for 1 min. Then use as a teaching point. Turn off computers or physically move away.  classroom/ world barrier - but devices make it more open - contact outside of classroom

Backchannel (Twitter)- Backchannel is the practice of using networked computers to maintain a real-time online conversation alongside live spoken remarks. First growing in popularity at technology conferences, backchannel is increasingly a factor in education where WiFi connections and laptop computers allow students to use ordinary chat like IRC or AIM to actively communicate during class. Prof can call it up live in class. Web learning environment

Use Creative Commons/Flickr - which photos need attribution, which don't. Students to find, what can they use legitimately.

Semapedia.org  - gps/links to what is at this spot

NITLE blog - they have collected a lot of what people are doing.

What could do with Mobile for 09/10?

• assignment - quick to class to find facts off the web; vs what we are trying to teach
• is chat widgit on lib pages now avail for Iphones? should there be a note to that effect below widgit on new home page?
• what kind of communication with staff? wiki? facebook? what would work with mobile and document?
• should we do a survey specifically with olinstaff? or lib staff to know what means they are using? Survey Monkey to olinstaff?