mlearning planning tools and qrcodes

Tools and tips

Sorry, not enough room to look at them all!Share the ones you know or use on http://howtomlearn.posterous.com

Wifi is cheap

For those who have cell phone with wifi capacity:

To login to the wireless at OEB09: wireless: ibahn_conf Password: 03EC57

(the ‘0’ is a zero)

post@howtomlearn.posterous.com

Look at the mobile version: http://howtomlearn.mofuse.mobi/

Putting up our own mobile backchannel

Via computer: http://howtomlearn.posterous.com/

Via mobile: http://howtomlearn.mofuse.com/

Give me your e-mail and simply mail to:post@howtomlearn.posterous.com

Tag e.g.: ((tag: oeb09, mobile)) in the heading

Limiting our costs (for when we go out)

Put your camera resolution on low Put your film resolution on low

Data transfer can be VERY expensive! But as long as we can stick to wifi, all of us are safe

Planning mLearning

The key question: will a mLearning project make a relevant difference in your setting?

If the answer is yes, go to the strategic drawing board, find partners, find options

Plan with a little help of your friends

Complete document here, thanks to Judy Brown

Mindmapping it all

Mobile learning platform: Moodle

Open source and recognizable (we use it in Peru)http://mle.sourceforge.net

Choosing tools

Choose the tool that fits the mobile devices you will use in learning

Communication and user-friendliness are priorities

Low data exchange improves user comfort

And remember Javascript and Flash not universally supported

Some of the ‘classic’ mTools2.0

Twitter Facebook Fring Flickr Friendfeed Gmail Youtube

What is your favorite?

Getting around with text

Useful keeping your notes over all your devices: http://www.syncnotes.com/WebView/Default.aspx

Text to speech: http://www.digitalfuturesoft.com/dfttsmobilesdk.php

Text to speech for iPhone: http://download.cnet.com/iReader-Text-to-Speech-for-iPhone/3000-20432_4-10970918.html

text to speech (windows mobile)http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-wordstreamer.html

Different operating systems

Symbian http://www.60symbian.com/ share mobile videos live (heavy on data transfer!

So watch out!) especially Nokia, but increasingly other mobiles as well: https://qik.com/

Android http://www.android.com/market/free.html windows mobile http://marketplace.windowsphone.com/

Default.aspx http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ Geo: mediascapes: http://www.mscapers.com/

Nice iPhone apps

everything is music: shake, dance… and your phone makes music: http://rjdj.me/

if you want to be seen as a culture savvy intellectual, get this cool app: http://www.soundwalk.com/

play a gps game worldwide: orbster online gps game: http://orbster.com/

getting connected: http://www.aka-aki.com Free iPhone apps:

http://www.iphoneapps4free.com/ iPods

http://learninginhand.com/blog/2009/10/create-it-in-your-hand-share-it-with.html

Surveys, polls and quizzes

Poll Everywhere Turning Technologies ResponseWare (BlackBerry & iPhone) iQuiz Maker (iPod) Milkit Mobile Study Pocket Exam Builder PodQuiz-hyperMix Maker QuestionMark Quizzler Maker StudyCell Tribal CTAD SMS quiz author

Survey example from surveygizmohttp://www.surveygizmo.com/s/212741/moeb09

Great mobile sites to follow

Friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/mobile-2-0 A mobile learning content collection: http://cc.mlearnopedia.com/ Mobile health:

http://mobihealthnews.com/ Great overall mobile news: http://www.m-trends.org/

QRcodes for all…

Let’s have a look at how these codes can simplify your life and learning

How can we access mobile content easily?

Making it easier for the learners to access content enhances their learning experience QRcodes =Quick Response codes

What are mobile barcodes 1-dimensional 2-dimensional

The possibilities

Learning from objects, exchanging information, quick direction to URL…

The mobile barcode learning facts

provide flyers with QRcodes to different web-based assessments;

direct mobile users to mobile manuals; use the mobile barcodes to get background

information during field trips (architecture, history, engineering…).

direct learners to the latest updates on specific information;

get students involved in future mobile applications;

check student attendance in face-to-face courses; direct students to a specific mobile module or

course …

Technical demands for mobile barcodes

camera equipped cell phones +

Example from QuickMark

co/dec mobile barcodes

Kaywa readerhttp://reader.kaywa.com

Winksite QRcode generator

Just a couple of examples no promo intended and these are FREE

i-nigma reader

www.i-nigma.mobi

Exploring mobile barcodes

provide flyers with QRcodes to different web-based assessments YES;

direct mobile users to mobile manuals YES; use the mobile barcodes to get background

information during field trips (architecture, history, engineering…) FUTURE.

direct learners to the latest updates on specific information YES;

get students involved in future mobile applications FUTURE;

check student attendance in face-2-face courses Can be done, but not air tight;

direct students to a specific mobile module or course YES.

Just-in-time learning

Cartoon: from www.explodingdog.com

Short manuals for sporadically used machinery

Accessing learning material swiftly

accessing mobile content with one click:

courses, updates, CME… (save the course on your mobile)

To take into account Distance to the code for readability Technology is evolving into 3D-coding The QRcode is static, but the links to

which they point can be adapted

Usefull links 2D code blog QRcode info from the Denso Wave inc. inventors QRcode demo with Gallerie, Japan

(= youtube movie 7 min)

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