Using Audacity to create podcasts

3 10 2006

itunes picAn 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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More on Standards for M-Learning…

1 09 2006

I recently accepted the role of Lead Researcher for the E-Standards Experts Group (EEG) project to research and document a set of technical standards for (digital) Mobile Learning, as part of a broader project to support national best practice, interoperability and compatibility in flexible learning.

  • Over the next few weeks, I’ll be performing a literature review of existing mobile learning tools, processes, and standards.  I’ll also be setting up contacts with key stakeholders, m-learning experts and industry representatives towards the next phase of research.
  • From mid-September to early October, I’ll be liaising with key contacts to determine trends in digital mobility, recommended approaches to m-learning, and metrics for m-learning and mobile device use across Australia.  The involvement of industry players such as mobile product and service providers could help me to determine likely trends for mobile tools that could support m-learning; hopefully the prospect of being involved in setting national standards for m-learning technology will make industry players keener to engage in dialogue than they have been when I’ve contacted them in the past.
  • The final report will be published in December.

I’ll be considering both published and primary sources in my evaluation and recommendation of standards for enabling and sustaining mobile learning in Australia. 

If you’d like to be involved in this national effort to recommend national standards for digital m-learning, please contact me.  I will be gratefully acknowledging contributors and collaborators on this blog at the completion of the project.

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Mobile Web Best Practices Checker

30 08 2006

W3C have been actively pursuing standards to enable mobile browsing fromt he web a reality, through their Mobile Web Initiative.  Following the release of their Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 earlier this year, they have now provided an alpha version of an automated guidelines checker, to help check mobile websites for conformance with their new recommended standard.

If you’re developing web-based learning content for mobile devices, I’d recommend working with the new W3C standard and using their guidelines checker, as we move towards improved usability and standardisation on the mobile web.

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