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In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore how to make teaching and learning mobile. You’ll experience a number of technologies to create mobile teaching and learning opportunities for you and your students. From using cellphones, smartphones, iPod Touches, iPhones, and iPads, we’ll look at ways to make learning engaging with tools your students may already have. BYOM—You are encouraged to bring your mobile devices with you.
Capturing Student Responses/Artifacts with Posterous & Cellphones
Only a single cellphone number can be entered into Posterous (i.e., the teacher's number). To post by text messaging (SMS), you have to put POST in ALL CAPS before the message and then send it to the 41411 Posterous number. Your cellphone number must be registered with Posterous. See Poster Help here.
Posting with MMS as an Approved Email address
Multimedia text messages (MMS) messages cannot be posted with the 41411 number to Posterous. Instead, email addresses must be used. For a list of the Email addresses for the various cellphone carriers see this list (Email addresses for Cellphone Carriers). Because this is an email address, the email address must be added as contributors/approved email addresses into Posterous to post.
For example, if your cellphone number is 281-555-5555 and AT&T is your cellphone carrier, then you set up 2815555555@mms.att.com as an approved email address, which would allow this number to send MMS to Posterous with an email address.
Posting with MMS & "Anyone Can Post"
With the "Settings" set to "Anyone can post", you can then post an MMS into Posterous with post@yourposterousname.posterous.com (e.g., post@viralnotebook.posterous.com). These are moderated and must be approved to publish.
Bypassing Posterous' Limit to Only One Text Number
With some testing, I was able to connect Google Voice up to Posterous. The process for posting is this:
Google Voice is forwarded to
Gmail is forwarded to
Posterous
This, however, is not the order in which it should be set up. Instead, follow this order.
Gmail is first. I created a Gmail account specifically for Posterous.
In Posterous, use your gmail address as the primary address for log in.
In Posterous, I set the Settings to "Anyone can Post".
In Posterous, check to see if the post was received. You only want the confirmation code right now.
Enter the confirmation code into Gmail. This should set up the forwarding to Posterous.
Now, you can set up Google Voice by picking your number and doing the phone call verification.
In the Google Voice Settings, under "Voicemail & Text," choose to forward text messages to my email (which should be your gmail address).
That should do it. You can try sending a text or an email. The emails should be posted directly into Posterous. Texts will have to be approved inside Posterous. Note, gmail does not support MMS.
Deploying Mobile Learning with MOBL21
Used two ways
For students with mobile devices, they download the MOBL21 app, then login with their email address and content code. The app will download the appropriate content for the student.
For teachers, they create the mobile learning content online at the MOBL21 site. They then push the content to the students.
Which devices are currently supported?
Check this link for the most up-to-date information. Currently, iPhone, iPod Touch, and desktop with Adobe AIR are supported. Android and Blackberry are coming very soon. An iPad version will follow with a different and unique experience.
What to know about creating content in MOBL21
MOBL21 is a lot like a mobile course management system (CMS).
The content is organized hierarchically. Categories are made up of Stacks. Stacks are made up of content. Content can be study guides, flashcards, or quizzes. I like to think of categories as chapters; Stacks are then lessons; and content is the pieces of a lesson.
Pushing content to students
Categories are pushed, or published, to students through Groups. Groups are made up of users, or students. For differentiated instruction, then put users into different groups (e.g., ability groups) and push different content to each group.
Limits on publishing
Audio/video are limited to 20 MB maximum. All images must be uploaded. No streaming media is allowed. No embedding of media can be done, such as with YouTube videos. The choices for media files are gif, jpg, jpeg, png, m4v, mp4, mov, aac, aiff, mp3
With content, there can only 1 study guide per Stack.
Thinking pedagogically
Begin with learning in mind. Be selective on what goes mobile. Determine which lessons would benefit from mobile/more access.
Begin with the learner in mind. Which learners would benefit from increased access to content (e.g., practice, additional content)?
Remember your mobile toolbox. This doesn’t have to be the only mobile tool you employ. Consider others we’ve touched on, as well as combining with other social media.
Capturing Student Responses/Artifacts with Posterous & Cellphones
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