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- 1. How to makeappropriate learning materials for various m-devices Terese Bird Learning Technologist and SCORE Research Fellow Beyond Distance Research Alliance MobiLearnAsia Conference Singapore 26 Oct 2012 www.le.ac.uk
- 2. What will wetalk about? • Pedagogical concerns: mobile strengths, comparing the formats • Downloadable • Text • Sound • Video • Interactive
- 4. What are youhoping to learn today? Photo by shaunwong on Flickr
- 5. Oh the pedagogyof it all! • Mobile strengths: – In class: • BYOD group or pairs work – look up,discuss,respond • One-to-one – everything but some create work • Lab work – electronic lab notebook • More immediate than ICT suite – Out of class: • Field work - capture • Homework – flipped lecture • Research – capture & process
- 6. What format forcontent? • It’s usually faster to read than to listen or watch • A picture paints a thousand words • Photos can mislead • More is communicated by voice than just the words • Video: some things must be shown • Interactivity encourages exploration
- 7. What format forcontent? Medium Positives Negatives Text •Speed •Flat •Pre-existing material •Does not communicate emotion Image •Much communicated in •Can be misleading a single simple package without context Sound •More communicated by •Not seen as flashy as voice than just words video? •Convenient for multitasking •Smaller file than video Video •Most info •Bulky and padded communicated •Demands attention •Great for demonstrating skills
- 8. Tbird Top Tips– Overall view • When I designed for Apple devices, things worked nicely on Android as well • Dropbox is from heaven • iTunes can be fiddly • For downloadable items, consider a Creative Commons license
- 9. Text – ebooks! •iBooks Author – simple easy, produces .ibook format • Free with latest Mac OS • Print to PDF – it’s beautiful • If you don’t wish to stop there… • Can take it into Adobe Acrobat Distiller and save as Word
- 11. Take advantage ofiBooks Author
- 12. Take advantage ofiBooks Author • Free with latest Mac OS • Saves as pdf and text
- 13. Now make anepub • Copy and paste the text into Pages. • Add photos. • Add video if you’re sure the devices can handle it – iOS: iBooks – Android: Kobo, Ibis Reader • Let it flow! • Tips: Only inline. No floating objects.
- 14. Calibre • Take aWord doc • Save as html • Import into Calibre • Save as epub or mobi • Pdf to epub doesn’t really work • Also try epubbud.com
- 15. Picture books! • Justuse simple pdf!!! • Brilliant results! • I tried everything else • Maps, drawings
- 16. Handy guide toebooks File format What device positives negatives pdf Everything Runs on Does not flow, everything does not take advantage of the device’s power epub Everything but Flows, takes Kindle advantage of the devices’s power Open source, somewhat futureproof mobi Kindle Kindle is big Kindle only .ibooks Apple iBooks only Beautiful & easy Apple iBooks only iPad is market leader
- 17. Share your stories! Shallwe try it?
- 18. Sound • Why sound? – Copyright is easier – recorded lectures – File size is smaller – Listeners can do something else at the same time – No bad hair days – staff like it! – Voice communicates more than the printed word – Excellent, easy way to close distance
- 19. How? • Audacity • Garageband •WindowSound Recorder • But please save as mp3 (wma and wav are dead) • And apps!!!...
- 20. Audioboo • Like YouTubefor sound • Record in browser • Attract comments in browser • Or simply upload • RSS out, iTunes out it’s like magic • Can send these to Apple if you like • 5-minute sound limit
- 21. Soundcloud • A bitmore socially aware • The app lets you record so good for students to record their own stuff and post up • Very intuitive • Longer sound limit
- 22. Sound threaded discussions •WimbaVoiceboard • Voice Thread • Voxopop
- 23. Examples of use •Audio feedback – increased marks & retention http://www.le.ac.uk/duckling • Voice discussions • Audioboo – Field use – listen to teacher’s description of a flower, student audio-records her own comments and findings • Student can record, using Audioboo for iPhone (don’t use iPad app yet)
- 25. Sound on iTunesU • Easy to get going • Oxford example
- 26. Share your stories! Shallwe try it?
- 27. Video • How manyof you have made a YouTube video?
- 28. YouTube facts • 10minute limit • Great to embed into LMS • Comments are a mixed blessing • Good statistics • Use branding • Not too easy to download the video • Good way to convert files to mp4
- 29. Vimeo • Longer videothan YouTube • Much less junk • Pretty much just as easy to do • Downloadable
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- 31. Recorded lectures • Recordthe face or just the slides? • Streaming or download? • Automatic enterprise, or one-by-one? • Huge server space required, very expensive • Screen capture software: QuickTime, Camtasia, iShowU
- 34. Editing movies –keep it simple • iMovie – free with Mac – saves as .mov, .mp4 • Windows MovieMaker – but doesn’t save as mp4 • Only go to Final Cut Express if you have to! – Bleeped out sounds – Fuzzed out faces – A cut-out logo floating over the image
- 35. Share your stories! Shallwe try it?
- 36. Easy interactive • CleverPowerpoint, save as pdf • Prezi
- 37. Get some helpsheets! •http://tinyurl.com/mobi-learn-mat
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