Using Mobile Phones for Learning

No need to re-write the book on paying attention to the potential of mobile phones:

Is was here in the 2007 Horizon Report (Click on the blog-post title to view the article)

This article says though the world as we know it is about 2 -3 years out from widely using phones for educational experiences and delivery, it lists many current examples: elementary students sending data to their teachers via text and photos, student services using phones for to disseminate information to students.

One particularly engaging piece is

20 Ideas: Getting Students to Use Their Mobile Phones as Learning Tools

Live from Australia

This is the first time I had the opportunity to watch UStream TV. Knowing Alan's expertise (which he addresses/dismisses/qualifies/elluminates) and his openness to trying new techniques certainly played a part in wanting to see how this event would go. I thought the transmission quality was great.

Here's his take on it:
http://cogdogroo.wordpress.com/

Quite the roadshow with multiple displays of opportunities for interactions via technology: notifying (Twittering) people that the show was launching along with colleagues checking in w/ Alan, SMS used to exchange questions and answers with participants at the physical conference site, an audio cast of the session in SL, and the live ITV transmission.

The message behind the presentation? Being open to technology opens us to how we might use it for educational purposes (in this case). AND the power of our expertise given the rate and breadth of tech development is our networks and that capacity of those within it.

Woo Woo. (Or should that be Woof Woof in honor of CDBarkley?)

Live From...UStreamTV

Create streaming video now from your webcam or videocam. The title of this post is linked to an article which provides tips to do so.

Here's one programming site brought to us by NMC's Alan Levine (aka CD Barkley)



So can I view this in SL? Cogdog ustream URL

Neuro-Mobility

The Chronicle of Higher Ed posted this today: There is a neuro-application that will let people with mobility issues direct their avatars' movment in SL. I'm reminded of someone I knew once: we were discussing what we would do if we had an hour to do anything we wanted. He, who was blind, said, "I'd fly again."

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2454

On one hand, this article expresses wonderful capacity. Since I have spacial issue, I certainly welcome it! Though as I think of my friend who said he would fly again, I'm also reminded that SL has visual limitations and sometimes auditory limitations.