Mobile Learning Winter Festival 2011

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Daisy Mwanza-Simwami & Rhodri Thomas
13 January 2011

Hello everybody,

The Open University's (OU) Institute of Educational Technology (IET) is holding it's first ever 'Mobile Learning Winter Festival' for OU staff on 18th and 19th January 2011. You are all most welcome to attend or/and to discuss the various activities taking place using this online discussion space.

See below for the two day festival programme of mobile learning activities.

Mobile Learning Winter Festival Date: 18^th – 19^th January 2011 Time: 10am – 3pm Venue: Jennie Lee Building Ground Floor
Programme for both Day 1 & Day 2 Drop in anytime – please register on arrival! Doors open at 10am Refreshments available 11 am Welcome address by Prof Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, IET
Theme 1: Mobile technologies in teaching & learning
Key information for module teams	Champion
Mobile VLE	Stuart Nixon & Anthony Forth
OU Library’s mobile services	Keren Mills & Hassan Sheikh
E-books on mobile devices	Liz Mallett & Pete Mitton
M-Assessment (IOA project) and Mobile Language Learning on L120	Valerie Demouy
Residential school experiences (L204)	Anna Comas Quinn, Raquel Mardomingo and Chris Valentine
Podcasting + Learning and Teaching Solutions	Pete Mitton & Rafael Hidalgo
iTunesU	Catherine Chambers & LTS Corporate team
Mobile pedagogies
iSpot / Crowdsourcing	Jon Rosewell
Using mobile devices to support inquiry learning	Canan Blake
Mobile knowledge sharing (tumblr)	Daisy Mwanza-Simwami
Work-based mobile learning	Canan Blake
Geo-caching for learning	Gill Clough
English in Action (EIA) project	Clare Woodward
Mobile Language Learning (OU Chinese iPhone app for L197)	Qian Khan & KMi Mobile Innovations Group
Use of SMS (nursing and healthcare education)	Sheila Counihan
Accessibility
Accessibility for the iPad	Chetz Colwell
Mobile OTIH (Out There In Here) project	Tim Coughlan & Trevor Collins
Looking to the future
Mobile & Location-aware technologies (Oxford mobile experience)	Andrew Brasher
Theme 2: Mobile learning for fun
Key information for module teams	Champion
Mobile Games and Maps	James Aczel
Drumkit app	Daisy Mwanza-Simwami & Mariano Rico
E-Health / Calorie Counter apps – iTracker, RunKeeper, etc	Daisy Mwanza-Simwami & Mariano Rico
Knowledge management / visualisation apps - Mind mapping, Mappiness, Doodle Buddy, Simple Mind	Mariano Rico & Daisy Mwanza-Simwami
Image morphing apps - OU Devolve me app	Mariano Rico
Fun reading - Wattpad	Mariano Rico
QR codes (treasure trail)	Keren Mills
Survey / Quiz on mobile devices	Canan Blake
Theme 3: Mobile Learning Communities and Resources
Key information for module teams	Champion
MTech SIG of the eLearning Community at the OU	Keren Mills
OU 'mobisite' – the Open University’s website for mobile learning	Rhodri Thomas
Cloudworks community and resources	Grainne Conole
IET’s 10 Mobile Experiences	Andrew Brasher
IamLearn – the International Association for Mobile Learning	Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
MOTILL project resources – mobile lifelong learning (database and case studies)	Agnes Kukulska-Hulme

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TWITTER - Share your thoughts and impressions here and on Twitter. If you use Twitter, the hashtag for the Festival is #mlwf

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
18:04 on 14 January 2011 (Edited 18:05 on 14 January 2011)

IPAD USERS - You can download many OpenLearn interactive ebooks for free from ItunesU. Look in the Ebooks section on The Open University page on iTunesU.

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
18:53 on 14 January 2011

Here area a few slides intended to prompt Open University staff to think about how to facilitate and exploit mobile learning within OU courses. If you need inspiration have a look at the examples put together by your OU colleagues for the Mobile Learning Winter Festival 2011. Note that some of the links within the slides are accessible to Open University staff only.

Andrew Brasher
15:33 on 17 January 2011 (Edited 15:37 on 17 January 2011)

'MOBILE EXPERIENCES' - You can try out 10 different ways of using your mobile phone to support learning. These brief and illuminating 'experiences' have been created by IET and are available to all OU staff via the EPD website - or you can find them in the Guidance section of the Mobile Connections website: http://www8.open.ac.uk/about/teaching-and-learning/mobile/

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme
14:35 on 18 January 2011

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