Category: Resources

  • Designing for Mobile – Maybe it should be all about objectives

    Going Mobile (2010) by Yiibu View more presentations from Bryan Rieger. This is a slideshow on mobile “stuff”, but I think the same could be said about any type of design these days for teaching and learning. Specifically, if you look at the last few slides – 90-93, we have to design for: diversity interruptions…

  • Online eBook on mLearning

    Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong) have put together an eBook, New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education(2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9) that I think many people looking into mLearning might find useful with chapters that examine mobile device use across a range…

  • First Edition of the Journal of Cyber Ethics is ready

    First issue publication of the International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education (IJCEE) is on the progress. Here is the list of papers to be published in the inaugural issue by January 2011; Finding a Core Curriculum in Technology Education via ICT by Matthew Adwerds of Utah University Computer Ethics and Neoplatonic Virtue: A Reconsideration…

  • How Millennial are you?

    It seems that this quiz might also represent “how much of a parent with a young child are you”, but regardless, when I have actual Millennials scoring lower than me, I think it is time to reconsider what the term means. It seems to me that Millennial here would be “how socially active are you…

  • Cells in the Classroom

    Nora Young and Marie Bjerede have an interesting conversation (14min approx) on Spark. It starts with the “fears” that students may use the phone to distract themselves in the classroom. Now, this is a K-12 discussion, but I’ve heard the same thing in higher ed. To that I have a couple things to say. First,…