Educationally Mobile
• The Smart phone
• Cloud services
• Polls and opinions
• QR codes
Contact us RSC WM:
Allen Crawford-Thomas
Tel: 01902 518930
a.crawford-Thomas@rsc-wm.ac.uk
Christa Appleton
Tel: 01902 518931
christa.appleton@rsc-wm.ac.uk
The “Smart Phone”
its not just a phone it’s a ….
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Browser
Camera
Media player & recorder
full colour device
user friendly & accessible device - maybe touch screen
multi-purpose - most have third party applications
Organiser
A means of connecting
= computer power in your pocket/bag
Social Networking to go!
SMS
• 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011
Facebook
• “There are more than 250 million or 50% of active users
currently accessing Facebook through their mobile
devices.”
• “People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are
twice as active on Facebook as non-mobile users.”
quotes from Facebook official statistics (July, 2011).
Using the Cloud
Connecting college -home - on the move
• Convenient
• Flexible
• Secure
• A back-up of your work and data
• Sharing and collaboration
• Growing in popularity
Images from Sugarsync
Bookmark and services
• Save and share bookmarks – blog rolls, RSS
• Order them by tags (& tagrolls)
• Store private bookmarks and/or connect with others
• Delicious
– Create and publish “stacks” (multimedia playlist from the
web)
• Diigo
– Bookmark, create a searchable archive, annotate (with
sticky notes)
– Share and organize resources using group bookmarks
• Evernote
– save notes
– Save whole web pages or clips
– Save or import images & audio
Storage and organisation of files
• Drop Box
– 2GB free
– 50GB $9.99 per month
• SugarSync
– 5GB free
– 30GB - $4.99 per month
Sharing and collaboration
Google
• Docs to go – write, share & collaborate via the
web
• Mail
• Applications
• Google Scholar
iCloud
• Latest update from Apple
• No syncing required but everything up to date on
all devices
• All files (every media), applications, email,
contacts, calendars
• 5GB free storage
(excluding purchases which are stored free)
image from Apple
http://www.apple.com/icloud/what-is.html
QR Codes
QR codes are used to deliver information, how could you make use of them?
If you have a smart phone scan the example codes below (app suggestions on next slide)
Provide Web addresses & links
Geo tag
location (RSC
WM) location)
Molenet
Mobile
learning
project
Text - add your own questions, comments &
statements
You Tube
(QR codes in
education)
Mobile QR readers
Apple
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QR Reader for iphone - free or 69p without adverts
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BeeTagg multi-code reader – free
Android
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QR Droid
Blackberry
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QR Code Scanner Pro – Free
Web based
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
http://www.beetagg.com/en/beetagg-qr-generator/
Voting and opinion SMS or Internet
Polls e.g. www.polleverywhere.com
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password protected
Use SMS or internet (no cost)
Text wall (from Xlearn £30 per year)
• password protected (secure) website
• individuals can respond via text messages from a mobile phone (SMS),
twitter or email.
• Useful for comments and feedback
Twitter
• Use a hash tag to group responses e.g. #mycpd
• free PowerPoint Twitter survey tools (from SAP web 2.0)
• Twtpoll 3rd party online twitter survey tool (example)
Example: using polleverywhere results
Q3: How useful is the Turnitin originality report?
 Most found the originality report useful and reasonably easy to use.
 The need to interpret the results carefully suggests that those that
found it confusing and difficult to use (13 % of responders) would
benefit from training.
The originality report
13% 13%
brilliant, all I need
good with careful
interpetation
74%
confusing and difficult to
interpret