Mobile Learning

Levelator is a free program for Windows and Macintosh PCs to automatically adjust the volume of a podcast sound file to a normalised level. No more fiddling around in Audacity trying to get the volume normalised with your previous podcasts… Levelator will do it for you, saving you hours.

via Learning In Hand.

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An excellent vodcast (video blog post) by Sue Waters, in which she demonstrates the use of the free audio-editing software Audacity to record, mix and export podcasts (with many examples of her own podcasts throughout her blog site).

One of the things I particularly like about Sue’s blog are her practical demonstrations and interviews with m-learners and m-teachers. Her work experimenting with and documenting standards for educational podcasting (such as optimum quality settings) is also very useful. Well done, Sue!

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Some recently published primary research papers that help to inform mobile learning approaches and mobile learning policy:

• From the E-Learning Guild, their report on m-learning, published in August this year. More than half of respondents reported that their organisations are using m-learning, and there are a number of other trends that demonstrate the increasing relevance and importance of mobile learning.
• Two reports on mobile life and mobile youth, from the UK (via All about Mobile Life). From the Mobile Youth report: the survey of over 1,250 young people found that 51% of 10 year olds, and 70% of 11 year olds own a mobile phone (with the majority on pre-paid plans), with Nokia, Motorola, and Samsung the three most popular brands among young people (aged 11-17).

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Kaywa have just released a new beta service that sydicates RSS feeds to
mobile devices and makes then accessible via a QR-Code. Feed2Mobile
generates a unique QR-Code and even a preview of the RSS feed in its
mobile format. Here’s the generated results for this blog’s RSS feed, which I’ll also add to the Mobile page of this blog site.

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From M-Learning World, in the footsteps of my previous post on “Why M-Learning is Cheap“, a series of posts on cheap and easy m-learning:

• How to create rapid and cheap mobile learning – text messaging provides advice on using SMS as a learning tool, such as message size, interactivity, and tracking; and provides example learning activities that capitalise on the strengths of text messaging.
• 20 Ideas: Getting students to use their mobile phones as learning tools refers to a blog post by Doug Belshaw, who regularly blogs on the use of mobile technology in primary school classrooms. Ideas include learning slideshows for mobile phones and iPods, educational blogging, podcasting and audio, and file sharing using Bluetooth. Best and happiest of all, Doug has caught on to the potential of QR Codes, via Ewan McIntosh’s blog which followed on from my original post on the potential of QR Codes in education – it seems the word is spreading.
• Finally, a blog post on one organisation who actually saved money by choosing an m-learning approach over a more “traditional” one, using iPods instead of binders to organise and disseminate learning materials.

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