eBooks & mlearning aren’t as easy as iBooks Author. iPad-only isn’t an option for my students.
Over the next 10 days or so, my graduate course in elearning development will be working through a unit on rapid instructional design. Capitalizing on the advances in mobile learning, they will be using an ebook and Twitter. This piggybacks on a unit I conducted with one of my online graduate teacher education courses this past summer. Learning from past [...]
Congratulations to Obion County Schools as they experiment with BYOD!
I found out earlier today that Obion County Central High School began experimenting with “Bring Your Own Device” when students returned from winter break this semester. This is a great step forward in leveraging technologies with public schools. I plan on contacting the Superintendent David Huss for Obion County Schools first to congratulate him on this “big step” and second [...]
4 strategies for mobile learning & teaching-Part 2: Google Voice
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, [...]
4 strategies for mobile learning & teaching-Part 1: Remind101.com
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 [...]
Free EDUCAUSE Live! session on ‘Mobility at Ole Miss’ #mlearning
From my Inbox and I encourage you to take a look if you’re considering a mobile teaching and learning strategy. I believe you have to be a member of Educause to participate — even though it’s free. Mobility at Ole Miss: An Evolving Strategy Register Now Date: December 7, 2011 Time: 1:00 p.m. ET Moderator: Marc Hoit, Vice Chancellor and [...]
Mobile Learning Guide Part 1: Designing it right Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students Viewing mobile learning from a pedagogical perspective Let Others Inspire Your Interactive E-Learning. Here’s How
Please join us for insights on what makes a successful conference proposal for AECT’s Design & Development (D&D) division. We’ll be joined by the D&D conference planners from the previous two years’ conferences, Brian Beatty, Past President of D&D, and Deniz Eseryel, President of D&D, as we consider the different kinds of proposals you might submit (Practice, Research, Theory/Concept, and [...]
A pedagogical framework for mobile learning: Categorizing educational applications of mobile technologies into four types | Park | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Creating ePub files with Pages
From Dr. Rick West (and my Inbox): Registration for the Professors of Instructional Design Technology (PIDT) 2012 conference is now open! This year the conference is in beautiful Estes Park, Colorado, May 20-23. PIDT is an enjoyable, less-formal conference for professors and graduating students who are planning to enter academia. Students desiring to attend must be accompanied by a registered [...]
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I am very pleased to announce that a colleague (and former student of mine) Dr. Jongpil Cheon at Texas Tech University and I will have a new paper published in an upcoming issue of Educational Technology Research & Development journal. The article is part of Jongpil’s dissertation work while he was with me at the University of Memphis, pursuing his [...]
The Caldecott and Newbery Medals for children’s literature were announced yesterday from the Association for Library Service to Children. The Caldecott Medal has been awarded since 1938 and the Newbery Medal has been awarded since 1922. 2012 Medal Winner From the ALSC page: The 2012 Caldecott Medal winner is A Ball for Daisy, written and illustrated by Chris Raschka, published [...]
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