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 [...]
As I continue to explore ways to make mobile teaching and learning work, I was extremely excited earlier this week when our Tennessee Board of Regents Assistant Vice Chancellor for eLearning gave me an AppleTV and said, “Use this.” I watched good friend Tim Blais demo how to mirror your iPad2 onto an HD TV or HD project with the [...]
Image via Wikipedia If you haven’t seen this great/awesome/fun/cheap tip for making your own iPad stylus for about 10 cents I encourage you to take a look. Great ingenuity! Here’s the synopsis and the link: I bought a pack of Scotch Brite sponges, cheap, penny pens from a local office store, and a small roll of craft wire. We made [...]
Beginning this Sunday, June 19, I will be attending and presenting at the Tennessee Education Mobilization Summit hosted by Walters State Community College. This is a program sponsored by the Tennessee Board of Regents eLearning initiative, Walters State Community College, the Mid-East Tenessee Regional P-16 Council for Excellence in Education, and the Hamblen County Department of Education. In addition to [...]
CourseSmart this past spring released their mobile eTextbook readers. I have been using my textbooks for my graduate courses on my iPad through CourseSmart. (The texts I’ve adopted automatically appeared in my bookshelf.) Just a few days ago in my email, CourseSmart informed me that they have added offline reading and annotations for their etextbooks. Funnily, I hadn’t noticed that [...]
ProfCast is a lecturecasting tool that is elegantly simple in its design. Want to give a presentation and record the audio and slides synced together for playback? That’s what ProfCast does easily. (It’s Mac and Windows, too.) Now, they have are going mobile. Well, they have been mobile for a while with deployment. Now, they are adding recording on mobile [...]
Sometimes I think I’m the last person in the world to find out about something. Case in point: Shakespeare in Bits. The folks at Mindconnex Learning have take Shakespeare’s most famous plays Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet (Read: those in high school required reading lists) and made them fresh. I think what they’ve done is created a new equation. Graphic [...]
Note: This is a cross-post from a guest blog post I authored for Next Gen Learning Challenges.
Mobile devices, like cellphone, smart phones, and tablets, stand to make significant changes in the ways in which teaching and learning can happen. But there are some significant obstacles that have the potential to make mobile learning’s impact nearly nill. Here’s five reasons that mobile won’t matter.
Image via Wikipedia This week is Vacation Bible School at my church Bartlett Methodist. The exciting and fun theme for the kids is Galactic Blast!, which has been a blast. I have been leading the Discovery Time, which is focused on science and particularly earth sciences and physics. So each night during the week, we have been experimenting with a [...]
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