Mobile Learning

Nokia produce a Debian Linux-powered, portable, wireless internet browser, the Nokia 770. Here’s a picture of it running Moodle.org’s login screen, from Martin Langhoff at the Moodle discussion board (at right).

Unfortunately, the content appears to slightly exceed the maximum width of the browser… but it’s still not too bad.

I’m also aware that Moodle has a “Moodle for Mobiles” module that can be used to deliver interactive quizzes and surveys to CHTML-capable mobile phones (which, according to the documentation, is 98% of Japanese mobile phones – not sure about Australian stats). David Delago notes on this page that the Moodle for Mobiles module should *not* be accessed with a WAP browser, but a proper internet browser, to enable you to mobile-ly connect to Moodle while you’re in a pub having a beer.

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Robyn Jay has made available some of the audio from an August 3 m-learning workshop by Caryl Oliver, manager of the Mobile Learning Project at William Angliss Institute of TAFE in Victoria. Caryl’s session is available in 4 episodes, including

• an overview of her session,
• Caryl’s strategic actions in promoting m-learning at her TAFE,
• challenges and solutions of m-learning, and
• pedagogical implications.

Thank you Caryl and Robyn for making this available to other m-learning educators!

Caryl has also been previously interviewed for the Knowledge Tree, speaking on the topic of E-business and mobile learning. She provides a number of insights in that interview, including one of the issues I will probably face in engaging industry bodies with my national m-learning standards project:

Caryl: One of the interesting things that came up out of the international m-learning conference, just recently, was the comment by a lot of people that the manufacturers of equipment and the service providers, the telco’s and people like that, have not yet come on board with mobile learning and learning using these devices. And one of the reasons is that they haven’t seen the potential income stream, just in volume of traffic and so that’s a challenge that goes out to them. And until they do, we won’t see things. A lot of plans, a lot of equipment is set up for business, and when we want to use it for education, we have to adapt and adopt it.

Jo: And so you can see that suppliers of technologies and suppliers of the communications network and businesses and learning organizations and training organizations should all be doing that together with the industry bodies.

Caryl: Absolutely. And the first ones that realize that will actually find that they are in a very, very lucrative area.

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From the “Using Wiki in Education” (sic) blog, a very useful post on how to turn each and every blog post into a podcast, automatically, using the free Talkr text-to speech service.

“Besides being a natural complement to the blog, it also makes my blog more accessible for people who have to rely on audio either due to visual impairment or very demanding schedules. I hope you like it!”

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Here’s a cool bit of software for (Japanese) language teachers, reported by Slashphone. Mediaseek just announced a mobile phone application called “Camera Dictionary” (Kamera Jiten), which uses a cellphone’s built-in camera to scan and translate words into Japanese.

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