AECT’s Teacher Education Division (TED) and the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) are co-hosting a webinar on Education in the Age of Mobility. Dr. Shari Metcalf, Dr. Amy Kamarainen, and Dr. Yu-Chang Hsu will present on using mobile apps within educational settings. Wednesday, April 18th from 5:00-6:00 PM EST. REGISTER AND LOGIN AT https://cc.readytalk.com/r/rvd1qbdxwifg Here’s abstracts of the presenters: Shari Metcalf [...]
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, I led a fantastic workshop with some great faculty members, students, and developers at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) in Jacksonville, FL. A few folks asked me if I had more resources for mobile teaching and learning. I told them, I had them in a couple of different places on the web, such as my [...]
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 [...]
I am coming off of two full days of Google Apps training, so I’m a little tired. But I am so excited that the University of Memphis Conference on Mobile Teaching and Learning is finally here! I am really looking forward to speaking with folks from K-12 public and private schools, as well as higher education faculty members from other [...]
My good friend Michael Barbour put together a list of the mobile teaching and learning sessions that will be coming up at the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) conference in November. So, I highly recommend you pop over to his blog at Virtual School Meanderings to see his list. I am pleased to say with my current and [...]
Registration is now available for the 1-day conference on “Mobile Technology for Teaching & Learning” at the University of Memphis. As you register, you can also see the conference program as it stands now. But it’s still evolving a little as we’re waiting to hear back from a few folks. Remember, this is for both practitioners and developers. So whether [...]
This is just a quick announcement to let everyone know to save the date of October 12. At the University of Memphis, together with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and IEEE, we will be hosting a full day of professional development targeted at mobile computing. This will include mobile teaching and learning for higher education and K-12, and it will [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
