Archive for the 'Mobile Learning' Category
Finally an educational use for Twitter?
Twitter is a social networking service that allows users to send updates (”tweets”) to the Twitter website, via instant messaging. the updates are in the form of a text-based post which has 140 characters limit.
The sender can restrict delivery of the updates to specific individuals and so can be used for […]
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The Hug Shirt
A glimpse of the future? Basically you can send hugs over distance though mobile phones.
“The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data goes from the sensors Bluetooth to your mobile phone and your mobile phone delivers […]
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Does Mobile Technology equate with Mobile Learning?
Form the blog of Leonard Low. A brief discussion on the nature of mobile learning. Here mobile learning is defined in terms of the mobility of the user and their learning experience rather than the technology.
“vMobile learning is, after all, about the mobility of learning, and not merely the mobility of technology, which is a […]
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Always connected, but hard to reach
“Despite students’ connected lifestyle, colleges and universities often fail to reach them with timely and relevant information”
By Raju Rishi
Nice article which brings forward the issue of communicating with todays mobile student in terms of communicating according to their (busy) lifestyle dictates.
“Understanding the impact that time-and-place shifting has on students’ preferred communication channels and their priorities […]
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Mobile Web Audience Already One-Fifth the Size of PC-Based Internet Audience in the U.K
Interesting stats with regards to the steady up taker of mobile computing in the UK. Some gender related issues are hilighted.
“Early Adopters of Mobile Internet Tend to be Males and Under the Age of 35″.
“The study reveals that 5.7 million people in the U.K. used a mobile device to access the Web during January 2007 […]
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