Welcome, Margaret!
http://nitleresearch.pbworks.com/Pedagogical-implications-of-mobile-and-wireless-technologies
Bryan Alexander, Nitle Research, speaker today.
Educause Review v.39 no. 5 new issue on learning spaces. "Signposts of the revolutions: what we talk about when we talk about learning spaces." Phillip D. Long and Richard Holeton.
??Facebook Application for communicating with Student Workers.
Papers for iPhone.
Ipod touch vs Laptop
Twitter in the classroom ; Flickr in the classroom
Crowdsource in Twitter...asking a question to the group..pose a question to the Twitter World.
Flip Camera. http://www.theflip.com/index.shtml
Plugs directly into your laptop. Image quality not topnotch. Kodak CI6.
HD version. Kids, reporters using for
Smartphone (Blackberry). GPS, Camera, geotags the pictures. Connected to the web over cell network.
Not all mobile devices are wireless: cameras.
Ipod touch: doesn't have cell phone on it. Still need cell phone.
Olympus Record. Records to flash memory inside. Marantz.
Ipod touch: replaced herb's ipod and laptop. Can get a cheap phone.
Macbook:
Smartpen (made by LiveScribe). Scanner on tip, audio recorder on the butt.
Flickr and Picasa (photosharing).
Twitpic: photo sharing on twitter, e.g.plane on hudson, scooped by twitter before news.
US finally texting at an equal pace with the world. Mobile phone.
ubiquitous computing.
Standage. Victorian Internet.
Wireless = based on radio frequencies.
New Kindle. Connects through the cell phone network.
WiFi:
Bluetooth: Short Range transfer of info.Hands free.
Emerging standard: WiMax...dozens of miles..transmits over a whole city....trees get in way.
Mobile devices: analog, other digital devices.
Used for information and media use:
content capture: sound, images, video, writing scanned,
Content access: can access anywhere..can download or copy, access news info
Social connection: texting, talking, networking, can edit for later by downloading.
Apocalypta. (musical group)
On Ipod Touch: have Facebook and Twitter Apps.
Podcasting: vs web radio (copyright)
Flickr, Youtube e.g H1N1 (what other cultures are doing).
Africa, ubiquitous cell phone use (bookkeepting, cellphone credit)
ICal: calendar tool via apple.
Webservices integrated on mobile devices (e.g. Facebook).
Small device experience improving, visually
Mobile devices are convenient.
Interfaces changes:
Mouse might wane.
tiny keyboard
Tablet..drawing with a stylus
Touchscreen.
Samsung. Windows mobile 1.
Open Publication Distribution Platform
Open vs Closed battle.
Different Platform: e.g. Kindle/Amazon. Apple platform only. Cell phone networks (companies protective of their market).
Emergent Social and Cultural Practices:
Devices and social multitasking: continuous partial attention. effect of multitasking on the brain.
MaryAnne__________ Proust and the Squid.
Sprint PCS card...connects you to the internet via the cell phone network
Publishing for the small web: smaller screen design..fewer buttons, more focused and linear.
Ipod touch improves the experience of small device browsing.
Websites should build optimal mobile device browsing.
Look at sports news, BBC as example.
Applications
Podcasts: Democracy Now. NPR shows. Rick Steves Travel.
Dan Cohen's Digital Campus
Audiobooks:
Librivox (free audiobooks, with podcasts)
Audible (purchased)
Increasing app:
imovie
audacity
Mainstream media is easy: BBC, NPR,
I Tunes Store: Directory of Podcasts is the best
Podcast Alley: good
ArtMobs.
Museum tour podcasting: Moma, Smithsonian.
As we may teach Maine:
Apple Apps Store:
Files light. Discover, Pandora, Weather. Wikipanion, iNotebook
Blackberry apps
Google Android cellphone apps
Ebook reader for teh iphone
Geolocation: Geotagging.
Flickr can geotag
Twittervision:when you create an account you have to tell it where you live.
Google Maps
You tube google maps.
Gaming:
Mobile cell phone Games. Jet Set e.g.
Handheld games for education
Incremental growth of wifi.
Cameras:
Flip Video. Media capture
Multimedia
Networked
B-flat major. Site.www.inbflat.net
MP3 players:
Ipod
Sandisk
Capturing lectures and distributing via Ipods
Netbooks:
Smaller laptops...Dell Mini e.g. good for travel, email, (jump drive adds memory).
If you want to get work done, need a keyboard. Keys are in a differenent place.
http://eeepc.asus.com/global/index.html
Supplement to your main pc.Easy to transport.
Ebook Readers:
Kindle (models 1,2 DX) luxury items. If you buy a lot of books it makes sense, otherwise its a nice toy.Amazon turned off the text to speech feature. Can play audio files on their.
?Textbooks (Kindle 3).
Phones: first peoples contact with news
iPhone huge
Media
Networked
Apps
Touch
Data entry...Blackberry
Smartphones:Iphone, blackberry, bold, storm, Samsung smartphone
Google Android: Samsung & TMobile partner. Open access
PALM (new palm in June "Pre"
http://now.sprint.com/nownetwork/productPage.html
Tablets:
useful for math, non-Arabic language scripts, art drawing. electronic stylus.
GPS
Devices vs functions: GPS on your phone.
in your car
MP3 tours could be enabled with GPS.
Clickers
ER, Personal REsponse Units
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7002.pdf
Requires a class to respond at the same time, but everyone in the class needs one.
Build responses into a class discussion
Poll Widgets. Polldaddy...widget or webpage for in class use.
Mobile Gadgets:
Kindle can only work with Amazon books, but a cable can allow you to loViewad your own docs.
Flash drives: Jump Drives, thumb drive.
Flash cardsSome emerging trends for the medium-range futureSome emerging trends for the medium-range future
Batteries
Connecting devices:
docking stations
monitors
Pedagogies
QR codes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
What Could I Do in 2009.
Mostly for managing my own work: smartphone or netbook or ipod touch
Some emerging trends for the medium-range future
Campus Strategic Responses:
Classroom multitasking: environment, wifi distracting?
New campus learning spaces outside of classrooms...information commons, lab, more controlled environment?
Off campus mobile learning: Remote sensing for engineering sites
Wireless Cloud: municipalities, Davidson College http://campustechnology.com/articles/2008/11/small-college-makes-big-leap-in-wireless.aspx
Surveys of usage and ownership
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanalexander/88282136/
Implementing Clickrs
Device Bans (e.g. museums no photographs)
Duke Mobile App http://m.duke.edu/
Games development for mobile phones: teacher development Made City Mystery. South Shore Beach.
http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/
CAmpus Platform Design:
-- Papers
--CMs
--Campus Site...how will it work with mobile devices.
Wordpress will detect mobile devices.
Pilot program to test out technologies: SHU Mobile (Seton Hall University Mobile)
Pilot: Franklin and Marshall M Learning. Handing out I pods and touches to group of faculty.http://its.fandm.edu/iet/cat/programs/mlearning-pilot.html
Pedagogies Trends
Information on Demand
Everyone in class bringing laptops and notetaking (Herb Wilson)
Passing around notes in class: "backchannels", can use for learning community
Time Usage Changes
Class/world barriers reduction
Personal intimacy with units
Spatial Mapping
Mobile, multimedia, social research
Mobile content Site for Colby?
MIT site http://m.mit.edu/about
Multitasking threats: distractions, wandering. http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=825
Cheating on tests if laptops used in the classroom for exams.
Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast.Elon University / Pew Internet Project http://www.elon.edu/predictions/
My thoughts:
I think the campus ITS would be well served to assess the usage and desire for technology apps by students AND faculty at Colby. We are currently just served by what seems to be expedient and easy to deliver. Mobile technologies would work more efficiently if there were more licenses/seats and networked access to various specialized software for specific subjects. For example, there are only a couple of network licenses to Photoshop. Art students can't get access to it where they need it, in the ART/MUSIC Apple computer lab in the library. Labs are still necessary for particular subject applications, e.g. audio editing, photo editing, where the instructors are.
Twitter use:
Creative Commmons Flickr. posting images
Semapedia http://en.semapedia.org/community/learnmore