Desde Micro-blogs a Moblos y
Herramientas Web para
aprendizaje
– usando herramientas para
aprendizaje Libre y Abierto

Teemu Leinonen
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Research Group Leader
Media Lab - TaiK
Helsinki, Finland
Visiting Fellow
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SRI International
Menlo Park, California

Let’s start with two trends:

Mobile Phones
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Wikis

Mobile Phones
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Mobile phones
(and other digital mobile devices)
1. Mobile phones
2. Multimedia phones
3. Handheld devices (iPods, calculators, etc.)
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4. Multimedia phone-computers
5. Internet tablets
6. Ultralight laptops

“Mobile phones” “Computers”
2007 Apple Computers Inc.
2007 Nokia: “mobile
dropped \"Computer\" from its
multimedia computers”
name a d is now just Apple Inc.
a e and s ow pple c.

0% Internet tablets
Ultralight laptops
Multimedia phone computers
25%
Handheld devices
50%
75%
Multimedia phones
Mobile phones
100%
World population

More than 200 000 000

Mobile phone features:
• Talk and Text (SMS)
Contacts
•
Clock / Alarm
•
Calculator
•
Torch / flashlight
•
• Mobile network

Multimedia phone features:
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• Talk and Text
+
• Music / Audio (MP3) / FM radio
• Camera: p oto + v deo
Ca e a: photo video
• Java
• Mobile network - Bluetooth

Mobile Phones
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Wikis

Wikis

How many of you h
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Wikipedia this week?

How many of you h
H f have edit
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Wikipedia articles?

• Word largest encyclopedia
• 10 000 000 + articles
• 250 + languages
• One of the world’s top 10 websites
(ahead of BBC, CNN Microsoft etc )
BBC CNN, etc.)
• Created entirely by volunteers
• 6 000 000 accounts
• “Wikipedians” (en.wikipedia: 1500
administrators)
(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2008)

Wikipedia is
Wiki di i an example of
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many to many
many-to-many media

• Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the
languages of the world
• Wikiquote – a collection of quotations
from famous people books and speeches
people,
• Wikibooks - a collection of free study and
textbooks
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• Wikisource – multilingual collection of
texts that could be distributed as free and
open content

• Wikispecies - directory of the world
species
• Wkinews - news service
• Wki
Wkiversity – a site f l
it it for learning materials
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and learning communities
• Wikimedia Commons - collection of free
photographs, diagrams, maps, videos,
animations, music, sounds, spoken texts,
and other free media

Story from South Africa

MobilED
M bilED
Mobile Audio Wiki video

Mobile many-to-many media

Why people want to do media?

Why
Wh people contribute t th
l t ib t to the
Wikipedia?

Because they
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can.

Many-to-many media t l and
M t di tools d
services

Sharing
links, web-sites (wikis), point of
views (blogs), micro content ( i
i (bl ) i t t (micro
blogs), photos, audios and videos,
learning environments

Sharing links
http://del.icio.us/
http://www.citeulike.org/
http://www citeulike org/

Sharing links

Sharing web-sites (wiki)
web sites
http://www.wikispaces.com/
http://www.wikia.com/
http://www wikia com/

Sharing web-sites (wiki)
web sites

Sharing point of views (blogs)
http://www.wordpress.com/
http://www.blogger.com/
http://www blogger com/
(
(... and fast creation of a web site)
)

Sharing point of views (blogs)

Sharing micro content (micro-blogs)
(micro blogs)
http://www.twitter.com/
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http://www.jaiku.com/
http://www jaiku com/

Sharing micro content (micro-blogs)
(micro blogs)

Sharing photos
http://www.flickr.com/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/
http://commons wikimedia org/

Sharing photos

Sharing audios and videos
http://qik.com/
http://blip.tv/
http://blip tv/

Sharing audios and videos

Sharing learning environments
http://www.wikiversity.org
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http://www.wikieducator.org
http://www wikieducator org

Sharing learning environments

Tools for mobiles
http://www.widsets.com/
http://www widsets com/
http://qik.com/
http://blip.tv/
http://www.jaiku.com/

Tools for mobiles

Gracias - Kiitos - Thank you
Teemu Leinonen
teemu.leinonen@taik.fi