The motley crew of mobile learning affectionados (myself included) have just completed their yearly pilgrimage to Handheld Learning 2009 (HHL). For 3 days at The Brewery conference centre in London mobile projects are celebrated and visions of future of learning are shared, debated reformed and then shared and debated some more.
The highest profile part [...]
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Posted 12 October 2009
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3 sheep § mlearning § mobile § web strategy
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I am on a train, as I write this, heading back from the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning - Telling Tales event at the University of Westminster. I’ve had time to have a great conversation with Graham Brown-Martin, Carl Smith and Sara Wingate Gray after the event. One of those great post-conference chats [...]
So can we really do it? Mobile learning surely it’s just a buzz phrase that hooks in a bit of funding every now and again for various quirky projects?
I’ll be speaking next week at the Mimas (The University of Manchester) Mobile Learning: Telling Tales event on the subject of “Changing Gear - Implementing Mobile Learning”. [...]
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Posted 03 July 2009
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3 sheep § convergence § mlearning § mobile § mobile web § presentations
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Also tagged: 3 sheep, 3sheep, creating mobile websites, formal learning, Hairdressing Training, Hairdressing Training for Mobiles, informal learning, innovation, iphone, mimas, mimasmob09, mlearn, mobile, mobile event, mobile learning, mobile web, molenet, Stockport College, Trafford College, University of Manchester
Schoolchildren are to be given lessons in how to avoid excessive ringtone charges according to the BBC. The lessons will look at business models and also children will be given a chance to create their own sounds.
It’s an interesting move since schools are often environments where mobile phones are seen as subversive and disruptive and [...]