8 posts tagged “bdesign(product)2008”
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Students and tutor reflect on the mobile trial soo far:
(Videos still processing on YouTube - in meanwhile use url links until VOX embed links become available!)
Question1. What are the benefits of Moblogging (Mobile Blogging)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5co1cdzfik
Question2. Why Blog?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d44q77cz7H4
Bachelor of Design students unwrapping their shiny new Nokia N95s - an upgrade from the N80s they have soo far used for the mobile trial at unitec! YAY!
UPnP (Universal Plug n Play) technology is nicely integrated into the Nokia NSeries smartphones. This provides a way to wirelessly stream media (Video, Images, and Audio) from your smartphone to UPnP enabled devices or software applications.
On the N80, UPnP provides a way of viewing video & images from the N80 directly on a Mac or PC laptop (When connected to a video projector this enables large group viewing/interaction). On the newer NSeries phones (N95, N82) a dedicated video/audio out connector is provided - but it's still cool to stream media wirelessly!
UPnP setup:
- On the N80/N95 Scan for WiFi access point & connect
- On the N80/N95 find the 'Home Network' application
- Configure the Home Network application for your WiFi connection and choose which media to share wirelessly
- Start a UPnP capable software application on your Mac or PC: on PC (Simple Center http://experience.nokia.se/VideoTV/howto/howto_2.aspx ) & Mac (Mediacloud) http://users.pandora.be/bruno.keymolen/hmediamac.html
- Now wirelessly browse & display your mobile media!
I've yet to get UPnP working on the P1i or the Nokia E90 :-(
I've been experimenting with the possibilities of mobile Vodcasting (Video casting) recently. The N-Series Nokia's make this a painless exercise (the multimedia capabilities of the NSeries phones is exceptional - it's just their lack of text entry options and poor battery life that let then down - you really need to carry a Bluetooth keyboard with you all the time for any length of text input):
- Place your smartphone in a deskstand. Turn on the camera on your smartphone, or start the 'camera' application.
- Choose 'use secondary camera (the 'front low resolution camera)
- Choose video mode and 'shoot' your vodcast. This will be saved as a 176x144 .3gp (H263 mpeg4) compressed video, suitable for mms or emailing. The built-in microphone does a reasonable job of recording the audio accompanying the video.
- Edit your video recording
- Upload your edited video to your online video host or Blog - using either email or Shozu.
Non NSeries cameraphones: The Sonyericsson P1i does not have a built-in video editor, nor does the front camera record stills or video - it's solely for video conferencing :-( . However the main camera records video at 320x240, 15fps. To edit and upload your video clips from the P1i:
- Create a free Jumpcut or Photobucket account.
- Find your email upload address, and email your video clips to Jumpcut or Photobucket from your P1i
- Logon to your Jumpcut/Photobucket account on a computer and edit your uploaded clips into a 'movie'.
- Embed the final 'movie' into your Vox blog etc...
Obviously Jumpcut and Photobucket can also be used with the Nokia NSeries phones as well - their online video editors are more fully featured than the built-in video editor on the phones, and Jumpcut or Photobucket also provide extra features such as embedding a video player in most blog hosts, and voting polls etc... Below is an example of a Vodcast created by recording clips on an N95 secondary camera & a P1i, then uploaded via email to a Jumpcut account and edited into a short 'movie' using the Jumpcut editor - pretty cool technology! (Pity about the video ;-) )
http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=1FD4F6F419D711DDAB75000423CEF5B0
Here's a quick example of using a Nokia N95 to capture and edit a video (including inserting still images, audio and titles) then upload it (Emailed to my account at xxxxxxxxx@mms.youtube.com) to YouTube all from the N95 - no 'computer' involved! Oops - in my excitement I forgot I added a section of copyrighted audio as an additional soundtrack!
It's interesting to see how YouTube's automatic copyright identification picked that up!
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83766&hl=en_US
"UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video n95 video example (MyN95Video.mp4). This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program. Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page."
Don't worry - I won't be making any money from this video :-D I'll upload an edited version with my own original music instead shortly!
Version2 - non copyright below now! In the N95 media gallery I chose my edited video, then chose 'change sound' and replaced the first audio track with one from my old band (When I used to be a rock star!). VOILA!
I've added an 'Interactive Concept Map' to give a visual representation of the workflow and interaction of the smartphone and mobile web2 services that we are aiming at in the mobile projects. Let me know if this helps with conceptualizing what we are doing! http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/mobileweb2concept2.htm
I've put together a visual 'concept map' of the mobile web2 trials and a table briefly outlining the web2 tools and their pedagogical alignment with a constructivist learning environment.
Any feedback welcome!
Right-click image and 'save as' to download higher resolution version (Low res embedded in blog post for space saving).
Pedagogical Design
The core activity of the project is the creation and maintenance of a reflective Blog as part of a course group project. Additionally a variety of mobile friendly web 2 tools are used in conjunction with the smartphone. The trials investigate how the smartphone can be used to enhance almost any aspect of the course. The project uses the smartphone and Personal Computers for the following activities (see the following table illustrating the alignment of these activities with the projects underlying social constructivist pedagogy):
|
Activity |
Overview |
Pedagogical outcomes |
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A reflective Blog |
A blog post (including media) can be uploaded directly to VOX using the Vox client on Nokia smartphones, or Shozu (http://www.shozu.com), or emailed to VOX xxxxxx@moblog.vox.com
|
Developing critical and reflective thinking |
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An eportfolio |
VOX (http://www.vox.com ) includes media sharing (video, audio, documents, images, links…) and linking (YouTube, Flickr etc…) as well as social networking. |
Collaborative sharing of media and peer critique, also forms the basis for a career portfolio. |
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GMail (http://gmail.com ) provides a free email account that can be used on almost any Internet capable device. A GMail account also opens free access to all other Google web services. The Google Java application optimises GMail for phones. |
Communication and collaboration |
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RSS |
RSS enables subscribing and tracking/sharing of online activity. It provides a link between all your web 2 media sites. Google reader (http://reader.google.com ) is a great web based RSS reader, while Newsgator (http://www.newsgator.com ) also provides RSS clients for synchronisation via PC, Mac or mobile. |
Collaboration |
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Shared Calendars |
Google Calendars (http://calendar.google.com ) can be shared between groups of people via invitation. Google Calendars use an open format that provides interoperability between many calendar systems – e.g. iCal on Mac OSX |
Time scheduling and collaboration of activities |
|
Image Blogging |
Dedicated image sharing repositories such as Flickr and picasaweb offer more interactive features than Vox’s image repository, and are linkable to Vox and other Blogging systems. Direct mobile upload to Flickr can be achieved via either the Vox client, or email. Picasaweb mobile is supported via Shozu destination uploads. |
Event, data and resource capturing and collaboration. Creativity. |
|
Video Blogging |
YouTube (http://www.youtube.com ) is currently the most popular video sharing site. The mobile version supports viewing of videos online in the mobiles web browser, or via a downloadable Java client for specific phones. Uploading mobile videos to YouTube is achieved via email attachments. |
Event, data and resource capturing and collaboration. Creativity. |
|
Shozu |
Shozu is a service for linking all your online mobile Blog and Media sites together via either the Shozu client application, or an email sent to go@m.shozu.com
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Shozu provides links between all the pedagogies described. |
|
Podcasting |
Uploading an audio file to Vox creates a podcast episode that others can subscribe to via an automatically created RSS feed. |
Interviews, critiques, reflections, shared collaboration. |
|
Instant Messaging and Skype |
Fring (http://www.fring.com) is a free Instant Messaging and Skype client for most mobile phones. It allows messaging between the most popular IM systems. It works best over a WiFi connection, or good 3G connection. |
Communication and collaboration |
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Shared Bookmarks |
Delicious (http://del.icio.us ) is a social bookmarking site – allowing the creation and sharing of Internet bookmark libraries and searching via tags (descriptive keywords). Mobilicious (http://mobilicio.us ) a mobile optimised version. |
Collaboration |
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LMS |
Moodle is a mobile friendly Learning Management System, hosted on a production level Unitec server. Course notes, discussion forums, and various activities can be hosted on Moodle. |
Scaffolding and support |
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Mobile Google |
A gateway into the Google Mobile services (http://mobile.google.com ) via the phones web browser. iGoogle (http://www.google.com/ig/i ) is a customisable mobile Google Homepage. |
Links to tools that support all of the mentioned pedagogies. |
|
Mobile Codes |
Mobile Codes (Datamatrix codes in this case) provide sharing of URLs, text and messages via scanning using the smartphones built-in camera. Codes can be created and downloaded from http://mobilecodes.nokia.com and scanned using either a compatible scanning application on the mobile phone. |
Scaffolding, support, collaboration. |
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Web Browsing |
The Built-in Web Browser is very good, but in some cases Opera Mini may work better, and Opera Mini has several tools built-in (RSS feeds, synchronisation with Opera on a PC etc…) |
Research skills |
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Document Reading & Editing |
Google Docs (http://docs.google.com ) is Microsoft Word, Excell and Powerpoint compatible. Documents can be uploaded and shared and edited by a group. They are viewable online in a web browser without MS Office. Docs can be created on mobile devices by emailing the document to a private Google Docs address. To edit uploaded documents you need a full PC web browser, or a full version of ‘QuickOffice’ on your smartphone – a mobile version of MS Office (~ $60). |
Documentation, reflection, critique, description, and collaborative document publishing etc… |
Table 1. Table of trial activities aligned to social constructivist pedagogical outcomes.
