Ran across this video via Andy Black’s blog. It was made by MOCOM 2020, a non-profit open think tank for mobile media and communication worldwide. It provides an interesting, provocative, and somewhat scary (a la Big Brother) look at what the future of mobile media might look like:
http://www.youtube.com/v/FScddkTMlTc&hl=en&fs=1
And, like Andy, this makes me really wonder what the future of mobile will bring for learning, and even more so for education…
Image Credit: http://www.mocom2020.com
Posted in Mobile Computing, Mobile phones, Mobile web, multimedia
Tagged 2020, future, mobile, mobile media, mocom 2020, vision
The latest issue of RCETJ is now online at www.rcetj.org (vol 4, no. 2). It’s a special issue on multimedia, media convergence and digital storytelling that was guest edited by Joe Murray, a professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication here at Kent State.
The issue contains ten articles on a wide variety of topics related to the issue’s theme and include such topics as the use of video as an aid to teach chemistry, iPods for language learning in higher education, media convergence in a college newsroom, using Second Life for research, teaching, and collaboration, eportfolios, a tool to track censorship and prior review of high school media, and digital storytelling as a gateway to computer science.
This issue is also the last one that was published under the editorship of Karen Swan. Yours truly will be taking over at this point in time. If you are interested in submitting a manuscript for publication (the Spring 2009 issue will be on blended learning), please visit the RCETJ website and take a look at the instructions for authors.
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Posted in Digital Storytelling, iPod, Mass media, multimedia, RCET, RCETJ, Research, Teaching and Learning, Technology, Visual Learning
Tagged censorship, chemistry, computer science, Digital Storytelling, eportfolio, iPod, journalims, media, media convergence, multimedia, prior review, RCET, RCETJ, Second Life, video
In the past couple of months I’ve been the guest editor for RCETJ’s special issue on learning while mobile. The issue went live this afternoon, and I’m very pleased with the way it came out.
Here is the lineup (articles are all freely accesible):
Bridging the Gap? Mobile Phones at the Interface Between Informal and Formal Learning
by John Cook, Norbert Pachler, and Claire Bradley
Affordances of PDAs: Undergraduate Student Perceptions
by Yanjie Song and Robert Fox
The Effect of Information Visualization and Structure on Mobile Learning
by Hyungsung Park
Using Place as Provocation: In Situ Collaborative Narrative Construction
by Deborah Tatar, Steve Harrison, Alli Crandell, and Matthew Shaefer
A Personalized Mobile Mathematics Tutoring System for Primary Education
by Xinyou Zhao and Toshio Okamoto
Thanks to all who contributed!!
To subscribe to the journal, please go here.
RCETJ publishes the original, refereed work of researchers and practitioners twice a year in multimedia electronic format. It is distributed free of charge over the World Wide Web to promote dialogue, research, and grounded practice.
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Posted in Cell Phones, Communication, Digital Storytelling, handheld, Handheld Computing, Learning while mobile, mlearning, Mobile Computing, Mobile learning, Mobile phones, Mobile web, multimedia, RCETJ, Research, Student Voices, Teaching and Learning, Technology
Tagged clairebradley, deborahtatar, hyungsungpark, johncook, norbertpachler, robertfox, toshiookamoto, xinyouzhao, yanjiesong
You’ll just have to find out the answer to that question yourself, so head on over to Skydeck for this week’s Carnival of the Mobilists!
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From mobilejones:
What’s amazing about this week’s offerings is that they themselves are a reflection of mobile’s push to data and multimedia in 2008. Handset companies, former handset companies, Internet companies, new entrants and social networking giants are all involved in mashups of services. And this CoM is a mashup of various media types to capture it all and bring to you….
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