Mobile Learning
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E-Learning
Intro - The Dilemma and Possible Solution Modes of Delivery and Other Details Adobe Connect Pro version (Used in eLearning along with Ministry LMS) Cloud Based Instructional Desktops and Learning Management Systems Edmodo A private online social platform for teachers and students to share ideas, files, events and assignments. Built on a microblogging model, the site allows teachers the ability to handle a good deal of class activity online. Teachers can send out assignments, receive completed assignments and assign grades using the online platform. In addition, they can maintain a class calendar, store and share files, have a public (RSS) stream, and conduct polls. Teachers can also use the site to send text (SMS) alerts to students. Users have a home page where they can see a summary of recent activity for their class. The home page allows the teacher to make a new assignments, assign an event to the calendar, send out an alert, write a note to an individual or a group of students, and share links or files with students. Haiku LMS A learning management system that features numerous tools for teachers, including calendars, assignments, and class rosters. NIXTY A learning management platform that supports open education resources. Rather than an LMS that closes off both academic resources and academic progress, NIXTY is designed to support open courses so that schools, teachers, and students’ work is not necessarily closed off from the rest of the Web. eLearning Ontario LMS (HWCDSB) This is the Ontario Ministry of Education LMS. It uses the Desire2Learn eLearning solution. ClassLink LaunchPad K-12 cloud-based instructional desktop that gives teachers and students access to all their applications and files for anywhere, anytime availability Mobile Learning Content Development Mobl21 Innovative learning platform makes learning material available to students even when they are not connected, enabling true 'untethered learning'. Tildee A site for creating, sharing, and locating tutorials for all kinds of technology-related things. Tildee provides a template and platform for sharing tutorials with others. Each tutorial you create is assigned a specific url that you can share with anyone. Your tutorials can include any combination of text, screen captures, and videos. Each tutorial that you create on Tildee is assigned a unique URL that you can share wherever you like. OER Glue If you find a good OER (open education resource like MIT Open CourseWare) and copy it into your project, and meanwhile the OER keeps evolving, your project may quickly become obsolete. But OER Glue , recognizing the transience of Web 2.0 resources, lets you mash live OERs into your project. "Your content stays fresh." OER Glue also integrates with many important educational and cultural Web 2.0 platforms and sites, including Google Docs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blackboard, Moodle, Flickr, Wikipedia, Plone, Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, MediaWiki, RSS, Delicious, Google Calendar, Survey Monkey, Maple TA, IRC, SMS, e-mail, and more. ARIS An open-source tool for creating mobile learning games, stories, documentaries and place-based learning activities. |
Sugata Mitra "Hole in the Wall Experiments" (background info)
ClassLink LaunchPad InfoOER Glue Demo |
Re-inventing the Textbook
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FlexBooks
Best described as customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12 education. FlexBooks are customizable textbooks that teachers can use online,via flash drives, CD’s, or as printed books. Teachers can even share FlexBooks with other educators and they can also customize them to fit their students, locality, standards, and current events. They contain high-quality online materials that are aligned with national and state textbook standards. Since FlexBooks are online they are kept up to date much more easily than printed textbooks. Teachers can use the books as they are provided by C-K12, use only parts of them, or add their own materials along with other content from the web. By now I am sure you understand the word “flex” in Flexbook. This unique flexibility made possible by digital technology allows for adding or deleting of material (including graphics and videos), adjusting the difficulty of the language, and making any other changes students may need. Imagine teachers providing the valuable handouts, readings, videos, pictures, and sound bites they have always used and including these pieces in the textbook, or should I say Flexbook!. Best of all FlexBooks are free, so teachers can modify the FlexBook each time they find something that works better in their classrooms. BookBoon All the books they offer for free have been placed there by the content creators with their blessing. Following the trend of genre based digital based curation, Bookboon is focusing on three different types of free ebooks to offer the global community. Bookboon offers text-ebooks, business ebooks, and travel guide ebooks. Push Pop Press A revolutionary e-textbook interface, with animations, video, and interactive infographics. Sadly ,recently bought out by Facebook and further development has stopped. Inkling Interactive Texbooks Inkling’s technology delivers interactive textbooks that include the ability to collaborate, add multimedia and communicate within content. The startup adds another layer to online textbooks by adding 3-D objects, video, quizzes, and even social interaction within the content. BioBook eText Evolved BioBook started as an idea for an iPad application, but evolved into a more accessible tool for the next generation of electronic textbooks. BioBook is cloud-based and can be accessed from any device with an HTML5-compliant browser, including desktop PCs, laptops, iPads and mobile phones. Its node-based framework lets teachers choose and update the content, multimedia and self-assessments their students experience. Computable Document Format (CDF) You could think of the CDF as a PDF file, only with applications built in. The file has the ability to use computing power within itself. Documents are more interactive and interesting. Have you ever been to a webpage where certain things don’t happen unless you click on something or scroll to something? Those are called dynamic web pages and that’s the element that is involved in the computable document format files. E-Books Directory 20000 free e-books Kno A digital book reader .You can read both books and PDFs seamlessly with all the formatting designed by the author and publisher along with many special features that make the learning experience unique. The Kno Textbooks App allows a user to turn pages with fingers, highlight and save important passages, search the web, create sticky notes, add bookmarks just as you would with a physical textbook FlatWorld Knowledge An open textbook model that gives students the choice to read a free web-hosted book or buy low-cost formats that fit their learning style and budget. Ebooks for the iPad or Kindle, audio books, print-it-yourself PDF downloads and interactive study aids are available. Wolfram Education Portal Teachers, are you looking for a new way to integrate technology into your classroom? How about through a dynamic textbook or pre-generated lesson plans? Students, are you looking for some extra help or practice in your classes? How about using interactive demonstrations and widgets to help understand the concepts you are learning? The Wolfram Education Portal is the answer for students and teachers alike! Mobile Devices as Instructional Tools Jackie Gerstein has just published a great free ebook that anyone interested in using mobile devices as instructional tools should read. Mobile Learning Reflections is eighty pages of detailed examples of leveraging mobile devices to create meaningful learning experiences for students. |
Click the image below to view a sample Flexbook Click the image below to view a sample CDF document... you will need to install player
 
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Online Courses
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Apple iTunes U
An amazing venue for top-notch educational content from the world’s greatest universities, institutions, museums and other public educational foundations. From language lessons to audiobooks to lectures and more, iTunes U is a great place for those who love to learn. Academic Earth Online courses from the world's top scholars. Khan Academy A not-for-profit service that provides video lectures on an array of subjects such as math, science and the humanities. With more than 2,100 videos available, they range from primary classes, right up to high school and cover numerous steps and difficulties. TED-Ed Offers a structured avenue for repurposing content by allowing teachers to "flip" any video on YouTube—including but not limited to TED-Ed videos—into a sharable lesson ripe with quizzes, informational copy and attention keeping animations. StudyEgg A good tool for students to use as review or extra help about a topic and get both instant assessment of how they are doing, as well as explanations of the topic. StudyEgg starts out with a question on the topic you select, and then if you get it wrong, will show you a video explaining the topic and why the correct answer is correct. Questions can be timed and there is an "I don't know" button that will take you to the video that will explain the topic for you. You get feedback on your progress as you go along. Gooru Gooru lets students access ‘classbooks’ which are essentially a collection of textbooks, videos, tests, and much more. Best of all, these classbooks are on any topic and offer tools to let students share and interact with the resources. WatchKnowLearn Features over 20,000 videos that are kid-safe, educational, and organized into over 3,000 categories. They allow you to search by age-level, grade, content area, and more. MIT Open CourseWare Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers many of its college courses online - for free to anyone interested in self-paced learning. You do not earn credits for the courses you take but you will learn a lot and get to see if you are made of "MIT stuff!" Each course includes content, reading lists, homework, lecture notes, exams, and more. MIT + K12 MIT students are working with Khan Academy to create videos that teach basic science and engineering concepts to school students in an entertaining fashion UnCollege - Hacking Your Education A social movement started by Dale Stephens whose goal is to change the notion that going to college is the only path to success. Dale advocates home schooling at the College level, and started a website, uncollege.org to help self-learners network, trade tips, and find jobs Course Hero Hosts the largest collection of study materials online, the concept of the site is to provide a location where users can share documents and communicate with each other on discussion boards in order to deepen their understanding of a subject. It’s like any other study group, except a whole lot larger. But what makes Course Hero different is that it’s attempting to foster a collaborative learning experience more broadly, across universities, and thus bring together students and teachers from all schools to learn in an open global environment. LearnZillion Combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Lessons highlight Common Core Standards in Math for grades 3 - 9. Each lesson is given in a video format, generally about 5 minutes per lesson. The lesson ends with a practice video. You are also presented with practice problems, and the answers are demonstrated and discussed. HippoCampus Provides multimedia homework and study help to high school and community college students and instructors free of charge. Teaching Channel Creates a much-needed resource for time-strapped teachers in all stages of education and all types of schools, helping them find useful examples of teaching methods along with the support materials they need to implement these methods into their own classrooms. Open Learning Initiative From Carnegie Mellon, free online courses and course materials that enact instruction for an entire course. Open Culture The largest database of free cultural and educational media in existence. udemy Udemy provides a wealth of video courses produced by users. Here, teaches and educators from all fields are invited to put together their own courses which can be shared with the rest of the world online. By allowing anyone to create a course, Udemy opens up the possibilities for a highly diverse library that can benefit almost anyone who wishes to expand their knowledge or skills. Udemy encourages knowledgeable experts and teachers to share what they know so that others may benefit and expand their capabilities. Skillshare A community marketplace that enables users to learn anything from anyone. Teachers can host classes anywhere, literally; classes are happening everywhere from NYC to Boston to San Francisco right now. OpenStudy A Social learning network where students can ask questions, offer help, and connect with other students studying similar topics. Its mission is to make the world one large study group, regardless of students' locations or backgrounds. Sophia Social Teaching and Learning Network Grovo Great way to learn online through its various collection of short and informative videos. Aside from including topics such as Facebook, Google Docs and other popular sites, they also delve on other Internet topics like social media, Internet productivity and lots more. Memrise A language-learning website which combines mnemonic tricks with a game to help users learn quickly and efficiently. Its carefully paced learning structure and competitive points system, the app's developers believe, make their site more effective than other language-learning tools. cchiarelli's Channel YouTube Sample YouTube channel with focus on Computer Studies videos |
iTunes U Info
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Four Ways Mobile Technology is Improving Education
Computers, laptops, mobile phones and tablets have all been spoken about at one point or another as technologies with promising applications for education.
But mobile phones stand apart in an important way. In United States high schools, 98% of students have access to some kind of smartphone, according to a report by Blackboard and Project Tomorrow.
The United Nation’s International Communication Unit estimated that there were 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide at the end of 2010 — and that a full 90% of the world population now has access to a mobile network. In contrast, only about 2 billion people have Internet Access.
Students around the world are increasingly bringing their own mini-computers (or some connected device) to class. Whether this creates a distraction or a boon to learning is debatable, but these four uses of mobile phones in education — and countless others — could one day help prove the latter.
But mobile phones stand apart in an important way. In United States high schools, 98% of students have access to some kind of smartphone, according to a report by Blackboard and Project Tomorrow.
The United Nation’s International Communication Unit estimated that there were 5.3 billion mobile phone subscriptions worldwide at the end of 2010 — and that a full 90% of the world population now has access to a mobile network. In contrast, only about 2 billion people have Internet Access.
Students around the world are increasingly bringing their own mini-computers (or some connected device) to class. Whether this creates a distraction or a boon to learning is debatable, but these four uses of mobile phones in education — and countless others — could one day help prove the latter.
- Inquiry based learning (See ACU Connected video below)
- Flipping the classroom (Also See Salman Khan talk below)
- Re-inventing the textbook (Also see Matas TED talk below)
- Teaching hard to reach communities (See Bridgeit Tanzania video below)
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