By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Stephen Downes[Edit][Delete]: mLearning Tools, Half an Hour [Edit][Delete] August 10, 2006
Leonard Low offers a nice theory and set of activities for mLearning in an EdNA forum, but like Geoff Stead I see the 'mobile' aspect as "flavouring" and not essential to the model. I haven't spend a lot of time on mLearning for just this reason, because I see it not so much as a new form of learning but rather as a transition to something more useful, something I describe as virtual hardware in this short article. But also, mLearning concerns me a bit because of the tendency of vendors to lock down mLearning offerings. In this mLearning portal, for example, clients can only go where they're allowed and all the content is otherwise hidden from view. Walled gardens (with sentries). Or this demo - there's no way out, only in. It's all closed prepackaged content. mLearning offers vendors what computing never did - complete control over the delivery platform. So even though people can moblog and SMS and otherwise escape the restrictions, I am still cautious. More: mLearning presentation by Geoff Stead and Lilian Soon in Flash. Via EdNA. [Tags: Online Learning, Portals, EdNA, Moblogging]. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Scott Leslie[Edit][Delete]: stu.dicio.us - What a Student-developed, Student-focused Learning/study Tool Looks Like, EdTechPost [Edit][Delete] August 10, 2006
Described on the stu.dicio.us blog: "[Stud.ilio.us is] part scheduler, todo manager, and 'web 2.0' notetaker, stu.dicio.us is also a social network. By using stu.dicio.us, you agree to make all of your notes public. The search function allows you to search for notes by school, professor, class, or the note itself." Pretty interesting concept, dead simple. What I like is how it becomes something really useful by focusing on a student need and essentially ignoring what teachers or administration would want. Scott Leslie writes, "So... a web-based, mobile-accessible site for students to store THEIR notes/information about THEIR studies, which simultaneously gives them access to other students' notes as well. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson[Edit][Delete]: Collaborative Learning Activities Using Social Software Tools, Athabasca University [Edit][Delete] July 14, 2006
As the page states, "The following activities were designed for use by self-paced (continuous enrolment) students working at a distance to add a social component to their learning. The activities are customized for the Me2U system (an instance of elgg.net) at Athabasca University, but should be applicable to a variety of social software tool sets and most specifically any ELGG powered system". More...

Testé dans une quinzaine de Missions Locales, «Diagoriente» a vocation à être déployé plus largement. Les Missions Locales intéressées peuvent être accompagnées à la prise en main de l’outil. Présentation pour partage d’information. Plus...