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Why Mobile?
The convergence of ubiquitous broadband, portable devices, and tiny computers has changed our concept of what a phone is meant to be. A pocket-sized connection to the digital world, the mobile phone keeps us in touch with our families, friends, and colleagues by more than just voice. Our phones are address books, file storage devices, cameras, video recorders, wayfinders, and hand-held portals to the Internet—and they don’t stop there. The ubiquity of mobile phones, combined with their many capabilities, makes them an ideal platform for educational content and activities. We are only just beginning to take advantage of the possibilities they will offer. (New Media Consortium, 2007)
Today’s mobile phones are powerful computers. The catch phrase of Nokia’s current add campaign for its N-Series smart-phones is: “It’s what computers have become” (Nokia, 2007a).
Web2
- Moving beyond CONTENT
- Ease of use
- Interactivity
- Collaboration & sharing
- Customisation
- Personal Publishing
Wireless Mobile Devices coupled with open-source Social Software tools potentially provide the basis for enhancing teaching and learning in virtually any discipline, providing an environment that stimulates reflection, critique, collaboration, and user generated content – i.e. a social constructivist environment.
Mobile Blogging
- Student Wordpress Blogs
- Student Vox Blog/eportfolios
- Tutor Vox Blogs
SMS Blogging
MMS Blogging
- e.g. http://www.vox.com
Email Blogging
Mobile Web2 interfaces
Wordpress Mobile | Flickr Mobile |
Opera Mini Simulator | Vox Mobile |
Mobile Web2 RSS
Google Reader | Google Calendar |
Newsgator | Bloglines |
Java Apps & xmlrpc
Java Applications | Shozu |
Kablog | BluePulse |
RSS
NewsgatorGo | Nokia Widsets |
Opera Mini RSS | Bluepulse |
Conclusions
Mobile blogging coupled with social software tools potentially provide the basis for enhancing teaching and learning in virtually any discipline, providing an environment that stimulates reflection, critique, collaboration, and user generated content (i.e. a social constructivist environment).
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Links to Mobile Blogging Screencasts & Tutorial
http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/mediawiki/index.php/MlearningOverview
http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/mediawiki/index.php/MobileBlogging
