This one hour workshop was delivered as part of a series of lunchtime mobile sessions at the University of Sheffield. The session explored different apps that could be used to support fieldwork activities, these ools included Junaio, ARIS and Polleverywhere.

1. MOBILE LEARNING
LEARNING OUT AND ABOUT
FARZANA LATIF

2. ABOUT THIS SESSION
• Compass
(direction)
• GPS
(know where we
are)
• Gyroscope -
Altitude

4. ABOUT THIS SESSION
• Create Mobile Walk for Students –
treasure hunt
• Enable Students to Collate and Share
Data at a location
Why?

5. PUBLIC HEALTH WALK
• Health students need to understand an area that they work
in
• Walking around an area can identify health issues

6. PUBLIC HEALTH
WALK

7. HEALTH WALK
See http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care for more information

8. OTHER EXAMPLES –
SCIENTIFIC DATA

9. OTHER EXAMPLES – HISTORIC
WALKS (MUSEUM OF LONDON)
Museum of London – Accessing Historic Pictures

10. OTHER EXAMPLES –
NEW STARTERS

11. OTHER EXAMPLES –
ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology Walk in Sheffield – getting
from Mappin Street to Heeley City Farm
• 1st year UG students
• Students encouraged to take pictures,
audio recording (helps the connect with
the surroundings) offering a more
varied and richer experience
• different types of activities, read
out poem on building, more likely
to remember the experience.
• Encourage Group work
• Look and Think and observe all
things archaeology
• Explore Sheffield
• Students Creating Walks
• Offers opportunities over writing on
a piece of paper, connect more with
the surroundings
“You can’t replicate everything in a book/lecture you
have to experience things in the field.”

12. GIVE IT A GO
- Find the diamond building
- Complete the questions

13. ACTIVITY
- How could this be used?
- What is the value?
- https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/1DH0lgZ
mX7a3Iir
- https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/FfINUnul
mvCE9K7

14. QUESTIONS?
Any Questions

15. CREATING DATA
• Taking Pictures
• Making Comment
• Annotate Maps

16. EXAMPLE
EPICOLLECT
• Create forms for learners to complete
• Collate different types of date
• Audio
• Images
• Text Entry
• View / chart with Maps

17. GIVE IT A GO
• Open Epicollect
• Fill out the Form
The camera can
sometimes
disappear, but it
is still there!!

18. DATA OUTPUT
http://epicollectserver.appspot.com/project.html?n
ame=wednesday
http://epicollectserver.appspot.com/project.html?n
ame=colin1

19. DATA OUTPUT
How will be useful in your context?

20. GIVE IT A GO - ARIS
http://arisgames.org

21. CONSIDERATIONS
• Connectivity
• Image Recognition
• Equality
• What if students don’t have a device?
• GPS Accuracy
• Indoor, outdoor, big building
• NB, iPad wifi only model does not have GPS built in
• Safety
• Any Others?

22. OTHER TOOLS
• Creating a walk for students
• Junaio
• Layar
• ARIS
• Students collating Data
• Epicollect
• FieldtripGB – allows you to download maps
• ARCGIS – you can overlay maps, e.g. a old map or
transport links, annotate maps, measure distances
between points
• Flickr - images

23. THANK YOU
• Any Questions?
• Contact Me: Farzana.Latif@sheffield.ac.uk
• Contact Team: TEL@shef.ac.uk