Mobile Collaboration @ Digilab

working with the Virtual Learning Environment Programme

Rhodri Thomas

Rhodri.Thomas@open.ac.uk

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 & connecting

groups• 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 own

phone web browser

first, then compare

by going to:

http://mini.opera.com

Click to download

There are 3 options

[ Phone, PC

or 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/mobile

library.open.ac.uk

More on Knowledge Network

Try Opera ‘desktop’/mobile views

Reflect 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