Blog Entries tagged 'mobile'

Playing Catch-up

adminjb — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Where did the summer go? It definitely was a busy one starting with one granddaughter’s wedding and finishing with a new granddaughter born to our youngest and her husband. I definitely will try now to be more regular in updates to the mLearnopedia blog.

The Fall “Conference Season” has already begun with a Mobile Learning in Higher Education webinar for Academic Impression [...]

Sun Learning Services Mobile Learning

adminjb — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

This week I had the opportunity to talk with Sun Microsystem's CTO of Sun Learning Services. He posted a video on You Tube this week of their Mobile Learning initiative using the iPhone and iPod Touch. (See below for video)

Training videos are available "just in time, just the right size and exactly what they are looking for." For those without WiFi connectivity content can be p [...]

Wirenode

adminjb — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Thanks to a heads up from Leonard Low, I tried Wirenode for an easy mobile blog. It took less than a minute to set this up. Check the mobile version of this blog out at mlearnopedia.wirenode.mobi.

There are a number of additional tools available to quickly create a mobile site including Mob5.com, Winksite.com and Mobisite Galore.

Wirenode provides the standard text, image, header, list or separator capabilities, but also enables you to easily add widgets. These include widget [...]

Cellular Health Care

adminjb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

For some time now, we have seen leading applications on mobile devices in the health care field. Today's technology column in BusinessWeek profiles several mobile phone applications in health care. Be sure to click on the View Slide Show to see several more examples.

Cell Phone Documentary

adminjb — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I missed it when it was first published on April 3rd, but was pleased to see the excellent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary on cell phones posted on the web (thanks, Tami). Having lived in Canada for 10 years and seeing the quality of the CBC documentaries, I was excited to see this full documentary. It is nearly 42 minutes, but covers the history, t [...]

Crisis Response Mobile Demo

adminjb — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Although there are a number of examples of mobile learning and performace support here on this site, the most common question in sessions and from trainers unfamiliar with mobile learning is about examples. For example, "Show me what you can really accomplish (or learn) with one of those small screens."

Unfortunately many of the best examples are proprietary and the owners consid [...]

A view into the future of higher education with mobile devices

adminjb — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, has produced an interesting video of their campus with all students using the iPhone. The 17-minute "Connected: The Movie" video is available on iTunes U or from the ACU site .

"What might a university look like with a fully deployed program of converged devices like the iPhone? Connected is one possible vision. This fictional day- [...]

"Free" Mobile Content?

adminjb — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:00:00 +0100

I received the following in my email today as a Google alert:

A Consultant in Your Pocket -- AthenaOnline Delivers Free Mobile ...

PR Web (press release), WA - 9 hours ago AthenaOnline announced today that they have released their entire library of short leadership advice videos SmartBytes for use on 3GP cellular phones. ...

When I click on it, I get automatically sent to http://www.myquickcoach.com with no mention of their mobile library being available for free, however t [...]

CES 2008

adminjb — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:00:00 +0100

The Consumer Electronics Show has just concluded in Las Vegas. As a MASIE Learning Fellow, I covered the show for Learning TRENDS. I was interviewed by Elliott Masie via a PodCast and prepared three reports which you can access at: http://www.masieweb.com/CES2008-coverage. (The second covers more learning related topics.)

The CES show was all about hardware with lots of mobile devices, [...]

Weekly Summaries

adminjb — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0100

We started publishing a weekly summary this month, however there are several sites already available doing just this. One we specifically recommend is Carnival of the Mobilists. We plan to cover more topics in our blog, rather than in weekly summaries, and invite you to comment.

For those who might have seen something of interest in the initial weekly entries, you can find the i [...]

Views into the Future

adminjb — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Especially at this time of the year, we tend to review--and hopefully learn from--the past and to look ahead to the future. I have always been intrigued by what the future holds for us in the mobile area for our lifestyle, but mainly for learning. I have been excited about what sensors can and will bring us for our safety and health, but have added several videos this wee [...]

Mobile Content Creation

adminjb — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:00:00 +0100

Half of Japan's top-10 selling works of fiction in the first six months of the year were composed the same way - on the tiny handset of a mobile phone. They sold an average of 400,000 copiesThus far most of the mobile initiatives we have been following have been access to and delivery of content, however user generated content is of strong interest. Other than photos to blogs and Flic [...]

Mobile Devices in Research Labs

adminjb — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:11:21 +0100

We are beginning to see the future of mobile devices with information coming out of research labs. With location awareness, accelerometers and orientation sensors, plus increased storage and processing power, the devices we carry have powerful capabilities to improve our lives. Much of this research can also be applied to learning at the [...]

Japan Watching

adminjb — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:08:17 +0100

Watching Europe and Asia mobile markets can give the U.S. an indication of what we might see in the future.

Recently Symbian posted a list of the top 20 smartphone features requested in Japan:
1. mobile wallet
2. MANGA on mobile
3. mobile check-in at airports
4. mobile keys for door
5. mobile employee badges
6. mobile cinema tickets
7. mobile transport passes
8. fingerprint authentication
9. face recognition/authentication
10. mobile di [...]

Lots of Mobile Activity

adminjb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:00:00 +0100

It has been a very busy Fall for mobile learning. We are making plans to upgrade this site and add some new features, but want to wait until the new Joomla is released (hopefully very soon now). We'd love to hear what else would make this a valuable site for those interested in mobile learning.

Some recent happenings of interest include:

Mobile Content Examples

adminjb — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:38:52 +0100

Although there are currently no specific mobile learning examples, the site MOOOBL.com from Spain has an emulator to view various WAP sites. These examples can give mlearning developers some ideas for content creation for smaller screens.

Choose from the "Select a WAP site" drop down and use the buttons on the Nokia phone skin to navigate. I found the variou [...]

Waiting for the iPhone Over

adminjb — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:45:25 +0100

Yes, I was one of the "crazies" in line on Friday for the iPhone. I did get one, plus something I didn't want -- a bad sunburn (despite use of sun cream and an umbrella.)

Over the weekend I experimented with the new device and for the most part do like what I see. However, missing for corporate adoption is integration wi [...]

More Mobile Language Learning

adminjb — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:28:25 +0100

To coinside with the launch of the iPhone, Ken Carroll announced their own mobile initiative in his blog . Premium users can now access a variety of learning tools at m.spanishsense.com, and m.chinesepod.com.

The mobile sites provide…
a) Discussion, Dialogue, Key Vocabulary and Expansion Sentences for all scheduled lessons
b) The ability to save new words to your vocabulary list
c) Vocabulary list review, and flashcards
d) The ability to access and partic [...]

Mobile Knowledge for Social Change

adminjb — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:03:08 +0100

A new site ShareIdeas.org : Mobile Knowledge for Social Change was just launched for NGOs with the support of Nokia and Vodaphone. Although not specifically for m-learning, there are case studies about civic engagement, economic empowerment, education, environment, health and safety and humanitarian relief.

It definite [...]

Mobile Learning Research Issue Available

adminjb — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:11:59 +0100

I haven't had time to read it all yet, but wanted to pass along the posting of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning,Vol 8, No 2 on the topic of Mobile Learning . (Thanks to George Siemens for posting it and to Sam Adkins for passing it along.)

In the Edirotial, Mohamed Ally from Arhabasca University states:

The papers in this special theme issue examining mobile learning will help educators and trainers to be better prepared for the use of mobil [...]