Mobile Learning

Mobile Tools Extravaganza

In particular, it comes with tools and instructions to convert just about any video format (including DVD, and most codecs) to formats suitable for playing on most mobile devices: PDAs, iPod Video, Sony PSPs, even mobile phones. There’s an article on page 82 about how to shoot video to optimise it for mobile devices. And there’s an article on how to use a PDA as a wireless streaming media device, universal remote control, or wireless media controller.

Apart from Mobile Learning tools and resources, there’s also an article on page 75 on working with wikis – the start of a series of wiki articles to be featured in the next few editions of the magazine; and an article on web video sites (including social web /Web 2.0 video sites).

Tomorrow marks the start of the E-Learning Networks Online event, an online conference using synchronous and asynchronous tools to connect educators from around the country. This time, it’s about social networking (Web 2.0 tools) for e-learning.

Mobile learning is very much integrated into discussions, as many social networking tools (such as blogs, flickr, and youtube) allow users to update their pages remotely using just a mobile phone or PDA. Furthermore, podcasts provide another medium that has potential to be adapted to mobile contexts.

Registration is free (http://networksevents.flexiblelearning.net.au/), with sessions relating specifically to mobile learning including:

• Podcasting & Vblogging in Education Stephan Ridgway
• Mobile Learning Technologies Daniel Dacey
• Connected Learning: Contemplating the Mobile Read / Write Web Alexander Hayes
• Mobile Learning and the New Generations Jeff Hunter

…as well as a number of sessions on other social networking and Web 2.0 tools, technologies, and applications.