Over the next few posts, I’m planning to share strategies that I recently used for mobile learning (mlearning) and teaching in one of my courses.  I hope you find these strategies helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions.  In full disclosure, I didn’t come up with some of these ideas.  Instead, colleagues, particularly on Twitter, we [...]

Last week, as part of the UNESCO mLearning Symposium, Inge over at @Ignatia Webs blogged and tweeted. Her notes from Mike Sharples’s presentation really struck a chord with some of the work and writing I’ve been doing on mobile learning, particularly as I have been considering situated cognition, authentic learning, and constructing knowledge in situ. From Inge’s notes on Dr. [...]

Last week, I wrote about the improved/updated version of Google Docs presentations that is available now for interested individuals. Google Docs is, of course, a great alternative to Microsoft Office.  I know that some schools have considered Google Docs specifically as a financial release to Microsoft Office. But I have found it to be a great companion to Microsoft Office, [...]

I just wanted to bring to your attention a doctoral-level course that all students in IDT and ICL should consider for the Spring 2012 semester.  IDT 8500 is referred to as “the writing class” by our students.  The course description says, “Students will critique academic research findings and synthesize research findings into an original, coherent and structured document. May be [...]

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One of the presentations that our students and alumni presented for the Midsouth Technology Conference last week was on the use of interactive whiteboards in classrooms. This session was for teachers and administrators who currently have or will soon have interactive whiteboard technology in their classrooms. The reports I heard were that the session was very well attended and was [...]

By way of the Google Docs Blog a couple of weeks ago, I learned about the new Google Docs presentations that is being rolled out softly to different users.  It’s not radically different, but I did want to try it out for myself.  From the blog post, I learned you can go and set yourself up for the new presentations [...]

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Today, through Zite app on my iPad, I learned about QR Voice from Marcel Duran that allows QR codes to be translated into an audio recording. Here’s how it works: QR voice encodes a given text message into QR code that once scanned by a QR scanner smartphone application reproduces the message with a synthesized voice. Currently, the message is [...]

One of the presentations we sort-of “crowdsourced” for the Midsouth Technology Conference last week was “60 Apps in 60 Minutes.” However, the crowd was us instead of the audience; we had about 8 of us contribute to this presentation.  Even a couple of folks who couldn’t make it to the presentation. This presentation included 60+ applications—some web apps, some mobile [...]