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Mlearning Overview Presentation

Mlearning presentation at Otago University, 1 May 2012, part of a series of mlearning workshops run at Otago Polytechnic 30th April-1 May 2012

Cochrane, T. (2012). mLearning: Integrating mobile devices into learning and teaching. mLearning Workshops. Workshop. Otago Polytechnic. Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9kx7n-UKqvBNExEQ2kxQUczTmM

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#icollab12 Social Media Report Votes

Students as Social Media Reporters

As part of the icollab12 international project, students in each participating country were required to move beyond the ‘classroom’ and use their skills in digital communications and social media content production to become transmedia reporters/citizen journalists. They were to work in groups to develop a series of reports for (and in collaboration with) an international audience. The main focus of the project was to produce rich media reports on Social Media in a) their local community, and b) their chosen industry (e.g. web, computing, creative, gigs). Their reports were then presented to students in Germany, Spain and New Zealand – in turn, their fellow #iCollab12 students overseas produced parallel content. At the end of the project, students in each country were asked to vote for the best “Social Media in ______” project, and the winners will receive an iTunes voucher. Here's some example student reports:

The YouTube playlist for the project will be updated as reports come in: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4C72B10F1B2AC723

Wikitude & Google Maps

Creating custom geotagged worlds for the Wikitude Augmented Reality browser is great - however you are limited to viewing content that is within a few kilometers of your current position - this makes sense as you usually only want information within the context you are currently located on mobile - however you can view your Wikitude world data in Google Maps anywhere using the custom URL linking to your KML file on your Wikitude.me ashboard. Here's a couple of examples:

1. An interactive Google Map of some of my selected mlearning conference presentations: http://maps.google.com/maps/mapplets?moduleurl=http://wikitude.me/w4/wme/mapplet.jsp?kml=http://w4client.mobilizy.mobi/w4/search?action=mapplet%26providers=2f4f4513-49d0-4b4a-80df-4d5c26b8354f
2. An interactive map of great cafes in Dunedin! http://maps.google.com/maps/mapplets?moduleurl=http://wikitude.me/w4/wme/mapplet.jsp?kml=http://w4client.mobilizy.mobi/w4/search?action=mapplet%26providers=255d3dcb-5ff9-4b42-944c-a97ce0ebc81e
3. Of course using a URL shortener makes this rather long URL somewhat more manageable, e.g: http://bit.ly/IUDLC8
4. And this URL can also be turned into a QRCode for mobile access. e.g.
   http://bit.ly/IUDLC8.qrcode

Wikitude on Android

Some of my favourite Wikitude Augmented Reality Worlds on my Sonyericsson Xperia Arc Android phone.

Productivity Apps for iOS & Android

My list of essential productivity apps for mobile devices: iOS and Android (most [but not all!] also now available for Windows Phone 7 and the other now as good as dead mobile OS Symbian). These Apps can be found by searching the iTunes Store for iOS, or Google Play for Android, or the Windows Phone Marketplace, or for Symbian the Ovi Store:

• The built-in Mail apps are generally fine for collating all my POP & IMAP email accounts
• GMail App (iOS) (Android) for the best GMail search
• The built-in Web Browsers are generally quite good at HTML5 for web browsing
• Google Search App (iOS) (Android) for quick links to the Google Mobile suite
• Google Docs (iOS) (Android) for collaborative document writing and sharing
• Google Calendar for mobile reminders and integration
• Google Reader for collating social media RSS Feeds
• Google Plus (iOS) (Android) for group global collaboration via Hangouts
• Skype for general audio and video calls
• Fring or IM+ for multiclient instant messaging
• AirServer for iOS device mirroring for demos (Doubletwist and Airsynch on Android for limited Airplay connectivity)
• Eyetv for recording Freeview DTV & streaming to iOS Devices
• Pages for iOS or QuickOffice for document editing and sharing via iCloud or Google Docs. com
• Mendeley for citation management and synchronization on iOS Devices or Referey on Android
• Twitter for collaboration and information
• NetNewsWire or Flipboard or Pulse for RSS reading and Google Reader synchronization
• Wordpress (iOS) or iBlogger for managing multiple Blogs
• Evernote for note sharing and synchronization across all my devices
• Built-in shortcuts for screen grab in iOS and Android
• Picasaweb or Flickr for photo sharing
• YouTube or Vimeo for video sharing
• Dropbox for document or media sharing
• Qik or Ustream for live video streaming
• QRCode readers for scanning or creating QRCodes
• Wikitude for augmented reality
• Junaio for augmented reality
• Google Earth
• Google Maps
• Kindle for eBook reading and synchronisation
• iTunes Match for my audio library (I use Sony Bridge to synch to an Android SE Xperia Arc)
• Garageband (with MidiBridge) on iOS for music creation, Audio Evolution for Android
• AudioBoo for recording and sharing audio
• SoundCloud for recording, editing and sharing audio
• LinkedIn App for professional newtworking
• Instagram for photo editing and sharing
• Posterous for multicasting blog posts via Auto Upload
• NZHerald for news
• TVNZ App for TV guide
• Photoshop Express for photo editing
• TuneIn Radio (iOS) (Android) for Internet Radio streaming
• Remote App for controlling AppleTV, and my iTunes Media Library
• Onkyo and Samsung remote Apps for my AV Receiver and Internet connected TV
• Bitly for shortening and customising mobile friendly URLs
• GoodReader for Media file playing and downloading on iOS
• iMovie for mobile movie editing
• Flicks and IMDB for checking out Movies at Cinemas

Productivity Apps for Mac OSX

My list of essential productivity apps for Mac OSX:

• Mail for collating all my POP & IMAP email accounts
• Firefox for web browsing
• Safari for iCloud access
• Google Docs for collaborative document writing and sharing
• Google Calendar for mobile reminders and integration
• Google Reader for collating social media RSS Feeds
• Google Plus for group global collaboration via Hangouts
• Skype for general audio and video calls
• AdiumX for multiclient instant messaging
• AirServer for iOS device mirroring for demos
• Eyetv for recording Freeview DTV & streaming to iOS Devices
• Pages with the Endnote plugin for document editing and iOS sharing via iCloud. com
• Endnote for Word & Pages citation management
• Mendeley for citation management and synchronization on iOS Devices
• Twitter for collaboration and information
• NetNewsWire for RSS reading and Google Reader synchronization
• Marsedit for managing multiple Blogs
• Evernote for note sharing and synchronization across all my devices
• Snapz Pro X for screencasting in OSX Snow Leopard, or QuickTime screen grab in OSX Lion
• I use a host of web services (List to come) for sharing, storing and synchronizing my media between devices, generally content is uploaded directly to these from each device rather than through iPhoto or iTunes etc...

iProduct Design COP Begins #autproduct

See the full gallery on Posterous

Today we began the Product Design lecturer COP as the team inboxes their iPad3s and iPhone4S! See an outline of the project on Mindmeister.com http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/public_map_shell/149929768?width=600&height=4... and http://andrewwithell.wordpress.com/

#icollab12 Student Mobile Social Media Presentations

Mobile Music Production

Mobile Music Production is now a reality - here's an example using an Akai Synthstation25, the iPhone (& iPad), a MacBook Pro, and the MidiBridge iOS App for mobile recording or performance via Garageband on either: the iPhone, an iPad, or a MacBook Pro.
Garageband now supports direct export of your tracks into iMovie on your iOS device without requiring an iTunes synch - so finally a real mobile workflow!