Mobile Collaboration @ Digilab
working with the Virtual Learning Environment Programme
Rhodri Thomas [email protected]
Mobile CollaborationSocial
– Presence & Status updates– Instant Messaging
User-generated– Rich media capture– Sharing with peers
Location-based– GPS
Mobile blog ‘moblog’http://moblog.co.uk/ | http://www.cellspin.net/
MediaBoardhttp://www.m-learning.net/preview/LeedsMet_mediaboard/
/
Location-based activities
• Fieldwork & connectinggroups
• Mapping media to a grid
• Adding GPS data:– Geotagging– Twitpic– Shozu– Google Earth/Maps
[Science ERA project]
[FELS Santiago residential]
Mobile Internet technologiesBasic phones
– Small screens used for menus
‘VGA’ devices– Higher resolution for multimedia
Full screen– Apple iPhone/iPod touch– Nokia Internet Tablet
‘Zoom view’– Apple iPhone/iPod Safari– Opera Mini/Mobile– Microsoft Deepfish [in development]
– Google Android [in development]
EPD Task – evaluate Opera Mini
Try out your ownphone web browserfirst, then compareby going to:http://mini.opera.com
Click to downloadThere are 3 options[ Phone, PCor via SMS] ~120kB
Try out these sites:wap.tfl.gov.uk or wap.nationalrail.co.uk
m.facebook.com or m.flickr.com
bbc.co.uk/mobilelibrary.open.ac.uk
More on Knowledge Network
Try Opera ‘desktop’/mobile viewsReflect on your experiences
Discuss in next week’s session
You can also use the emulator at: http://www.operamini.com/demo/
Podcasting equipment
What standard? (examples):• Bronze
Handheld technologies Recording attachments/accessories Audio recording software
• Silver ‘Prosumer’ recording devices Digilab or LTS (Sound&Vision) loan
• Gold: ‘Broadcast quality’ LTS (Sound&Vision) studio time
eLC Activity: Podcasting
• Write down a few prompt words which will help you describe your thoughts on either of the following:o How do you see podcasting supplementing teaching
and learning activities and/or the contact with your students?
o What would you like to achieve through being part of the eLearning Community and what would you like to see covered in future?
• Record a one minute reflection on this topic, and play back to see if this is OK – no time for editing today.
• We will then upload to the Podcast Directory as part of the eLC Podcasting session outputs.
Example sessions
• Educational and Professional Development (EPD) http://epd.open.ac.uk http://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8541 Elluminate recording (mobile browsing)
• eLearning Community workshops http://kn.open.ac.uk/workspace.cfm?wpid=8567 Podcast Directory (handheld recording activity)
• Mobile Learner Support http://conclave.open.ac.uk/mLearn/
• Digibytes and Digiquests
Digilab facilities
Example resources
• Mobile Technologies Special Interest Group (MTech) http://conclave.open.ac.uk/m-tech-group/
• Emulation/Simulation http://conclave.open.ac.uk/m-tech-group/index.php/Emulation
• Devices http://conclave.open.ac.uk/m-tech-group/index.php/Devices