Monday, December 26, 2011
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Animoto for teachers
I need a tool to a Christmas video and thanks for my Greek teacher friend George Panagiotakopoulos @Physiart, i understood, that Animoto is the one for the job. Also yesterday i had some advice from Liam Dunphy and Mr @physiart about taking Education account in Animoto. Instead of free 30 sec. video you get longer videos and password for 50 students. (Thanks for collaboration in Twitter guys!) There are also Animoto for iPhone, witch makes great new elements for mobile learning.
Just check the Animoto features and create a video with music, text, images and video.
I dont want to present my Christmas calender yet and spoil the surprise, so im going to make from random pictures of my computer a 30 sec presentation starting now. Clock is ticking . . .5 minutes and Animoto is making the video, video embed here under total of 10 minutes.
For Seasons by @ilotimo and Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 4, 2011
Guest post by Brian Kotts: How I Became a Pad Teacher
I asked Teacher at Linnaeus University Mr. Brian Kotts to be a make a guest post to my blog and i am really glad he did, so thanks for your effort Brian. We have 6 High school iPad project going on, so i enjoyed this information a lot. This is great collaboration which Twitter community makes possible.
A recent study showed that the use of iPad in schools is expected to surpass computers in five years. This may seem inevitable considering that children have become more skilled in using computers than activities like riding bikes or swimming.
Noticing that most students owned iPads, it dawned on me that we put them to more productive use. The disruptive nature of the iPad has facilitated in the flipping my classrooms, which has transformed how the students approach their learning.
Here are the apps that we’ve been actively using in the past two months:
1. Penultimate
Turned my iPad into a smartboard allowing mirroring of the notes and sketches in multiple colors. These are then separated into topics or projects later emailed to students or posted to a blog in PDF format.
2. Apple’s iWork suite
Pages for word processing, Keynote for presentation and Numbers for spreadsheet. With the integration of iCloud, it’s now easier to move docs in and out of the apps. Apple’s Open In… feature works too if one uses DropBox or SugarSync.
3. Dropbox
Has been excellent for backup as it automatically syncs files across multiple devices, and offers remote file access and sharing. It has also doubled as a PDF- and document-reader,
4. Instapaper
Great for reseach and archiving. “Read Later” list, whilst has allowed for better scanning of titles, easy management with Archive and Delete buttons, and faster refresh times.
5. TED
TED talk has 900+ videos from some of the world’s most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus and music legends. Students have been able to bookmark or download their favorite TEDTalk for playback later.
6. Evernote
After each student registered for an account, we created individual and collective notebooks for sharing and collaboration especially for research and group assignments.
7. Skype
This has mostly been used for podcasts, lectures with guest lecturers, video conferencing with other classrooms and virtual tours with experts in various fields.
8. Osfoora
The Perfect iPad Twitter App.
9. Goodreader
GoodReader has hundreds of functionalities and support for different file types. Not only has it been able to re-format files for easy reading on the iPad, but also access to documents stored online on services like MobileMe, Google Docs, Dropbox and more and downloading of files straight from URLs.
10. GarageBand
Using this tutorial made creating podcasts quite seamless. The coolest function is to uploading the podcasts to iTunes for students to subscribe.
11. Wikipanion
Wikipedia is the number one site that students go to when they begin researching a topic. It’s features are far better than the native wikipedia app. These include smart autocompletion, much like Google search, keeping track of the last one hundred pages, uses geolocation to detect where you are and suggests relevant articles based on that location.
Some one million words and definitions based upon the Random House Unabridged Dictionary are included, while the Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus boasts more than 90,000 synonyms.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Audioboo
My Twitter friend John putt @wjputt asked me yesterday, if i could do voice file with Audioboo to his Prezi. I havent used it before, so i was curious to know how long time it would take.
In the morning i get the Audioboo app to my iPhone, watched tutorial and then action. First take i had some trouble on voice (my hand was blogging the microphone:) but in second time it went well and i shared the file on Twitter. Total time about 30 minutes (great morning of learning to me. One reason why im blogging.)
First step is to take Audioboo tour and then just record.
My 2 minutes recording how social media helps me on professional learning
In the morning i get the Audioboo app to my iPhone, watched tutorial and then action. First take i had some trouble on voice (my hand was blogging the microphone:) but in second time it went well and i shared the file on Twitter. Total time about 30 minutes (great morning of learning to me. One reason why im blogging.)
First step is to take Audioboo tour and then just record.
My 2 minutes recording how social media helps me on professional learning
Monday, September 12, 2011
5 Visions about Future of Mobile Learning
My journey to understand different sides of mobile learning continues. This third post presents some great visions of future of mobile learning. Previous mlearning post so far: Mobile Learning Resources and Definitions of Mobile Learning. Welcome to future!
Friday, September 9, 2011
Top Mobile Learning Resources For Teachers
In my first mobile learning post i made couple of Definitions of mobile learning. This post presents some top resources which i have been using in learning more about mlearning. I was inspired to this post after watching this video about mobile learning: 21st Century Learning Mobile Learning Devices. Everything tells me that mobile learning is one of the key elements in future learning. After that i found fantastic Prezi Welcome to the future . . .today by Simon Crook. If you like taste some learning flow, take this trip. If you are not done yet, check also this Prezi Mobile technology at innovations by George Engel.Few more resources for journey to understand whole field of mobile learning.
Top Mobile Learning Pages:
St. Marys City Schools:Mobile Learning Technology
Cybraryman mobile learning page
Mlearnopedia
Mobile Motivation: Mobile Learning Resources by Shelly Terrel
Learning in hand
50 mobile learning resources
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Definitions of Mobile Learning
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/notionscapital/869847216/ by Mike Licht)
Im going to post series of mobile learning posts and try to open the field for me and teachers who are not familiar practical and educational use of mobile learning devices. Im heading from theory towards practice and finally post also our school practical experiences of mlearning.
First there are couple of definitions (there are plenty of more) of mobile learning. In Upside Learning blog: General Considerations for Mobile Learning (mLearning) i found many definitions on mobile learning:
Wikipedia defines mobile learning as “Any sort of learning that happens when the learner is not at a fixed, predetermined location, or learning that happens when the learner takes advantage of the learning opportunities offered by mobile technologies”.
In other words, mLearning decreases limitation of learning location with the mobility of general portable devices1.
Simply put, mobile learning is the acquisition or modification of any knowledge and skill through using mobile technology, anywhere, anytime and results in the modification of behavior
What is mobile learning?
Upper: Thoughts on the state of mobile learning
Mobile Learning 1 by TheSophiaLin
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