Today, I am excited to visit Union University with my friend and colleague Dr. Anna Clifford. We will be exploring using mobile computing devices for teaching and learning. I have put together a PBWorks page on my professional development wiki that aggregates a number of resources and links, so definitely check it out. Here’s the QR code, too, to that [...]

You may remember a couple of weeks ago I started a series of posts on strategies I have been using for mobile learning (#mlearning) and teaching in one of my graduate instructional technology courses.  In the first post, I described the use of Remind101.com and how I had used it with my students as both a messaging service for reminders, [...]

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 [...]

Wish I could attend this webinar.  Hope you’ll attend and let me know what you learn: Free eSeminar: Publishing to Mobile Devices at the University of Oregon Thursday, November 10 10–11 a.m. PST; 1–2 p.m. EST More and more companies seek highly skilled users and creators of electronic media, including mobile devices and apps. Learn how Ed Madison, graduate teaching [...]

Another great Infographic that helps us understand how college students are using their cellphones (and not necessarily a smartphone). Created by: HackCollege

As part of my IDT 8600 course this semester, my students and I will conducting research into how teachers are using mobile computing devices in their classrooms.  To do this, we need your help!  We need to collect a list of great teachers who are doing great things with mobile teaching and learning. If you’re one of these great teachers [...]

My good friend, colleague, and doctoral student, Joanne Gikas, will be defending her dissertation next Wednesday.  The purpose of her study was to explore the changes to teaching and learning when faculty members implemented mobile computing devices in their classes.  She considered both faculty members’ perspectives and students’ perspectives in her qualitative research.  Here is a brief summary of her [...]

In the past year, I’ve really become fascinated with QR codes, that’s quick response codes.  These little crazy square thingies are popping up everywhere—even on t-shirts!  Did you know they’ve been used in Japan for about 15 years. Who knew? I’ve gathered up some resources here that I use in professional development workshops with K-12 teachers and higher education faculty.  [...]

If you work with distance learning or mobile learning, whether in K-12 or higher education, then I highly encourage you to consider submitting a proposal to the Midsouth Distance Learning Conference.  Last year, a group of us from the University of Memphis attended the Arkansas Distance Learning Association conference.  We found it a really useful conference for networking, sharing, and [...]

Over the next few days, I will be attending the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital‘s Cure4Kids Global Summit.  (That’s a mouthful!)  A description from the website says: The aim of this three-day conference is to improve health and science education in classrooms and communities around the world. It will bring together leading educators, innovators, and pioneers in a multidisciplinary forum [...]