7 posts tagged “dipmus2008”
Vodafone NZ now have a news bulletin on their site re the release of the iPhone 3G on 11 July - not much info & no pricing yet - however the NZ Herald qoted the 8GB iPhone 3G to be $365NZ this morning - that's less than a third of the parallel import price of the original iPhone!
"Australia, Italy, New Zealand and Portugal will be the first Vodafone markets to offer customers iPhone 3G for purchase on July 11. iPhone 3G will be available via Vodafone on both prepay and contract price plans which will include great value data bundles."
3G iPhone announced today!
• Available NZ 11 July – Vodafone
• 8GB $200US ($300 NZ), 16GB $300US ~ $500NZ !
• App store coming – some free blogging apps announced (Typepad)
• Will there be a voice/data contract required as part of purchase???
New Features:
* UMTS/HSDPA
* GPS
* iPhone2 software
* MobileMe synchronization (an updated dotMac)
* iPhone/iPod applications & app store coming soon
Still Missing:
* Video recording
* only 2MP camera resolution still, & no flash lighting
* No secondary camera for video conferencing
* No handwriting recognition
* No Java
* No Flash
The iPhone has the best mobile web experience available, but the holes in its feature set still hamper it. It's biggest benefit is the intuitive User Interface - this is the major downfall of Symbian S60 & UIQ mobile OSes.
The steps involved in creating a PodCast Show using VOX and the iTunes Store are:
- Record your Podcast show episode and convert to either mp3 or mp4 (aac, m4a).
- Upload
your audio file (Podcast episode) to your Vox blog - either as a post
attachment or upload directly into your Vox 'Audio' folder in your Vox
Library.
- Create a 'Collection' in Vox and name it - e.g. 'My Podcast Show'.
- Add your Podcast Episode to your Podcast 'Collection' in Vox - note providing a description and tag words will make it easier for listeners to search for your Podcast show and categorize it!
- Find your Vox Podcast Collection RSS feed and copy it.
- It will be in the form: http://thomcochrane.vox.com/podcast-show/atom.xml
- i.e. http://yourvoxname.vox.com/yourvoxcollectionname/atom.xml
- Open iTunes, choose 'Advanced', 'Subscribe to Podcast' and paste your Podcast RSS feed - iTunes will then download and play your Podcast show episodes!
- Share your iTunes Podcast Playlist (and your RSS feed) with the rest of the class!
- To get your Podcast show on iTunes:
- Submit your Shows RSS feed to iTunes
- Launch iTunes.
- In the left navigation column, under iTunes Store, click on the Podcasts link to go to the Podcasts page.
- In the left column of the Podcasts page, in the Learn More box at the bottom, click on the Submit a Podcast link.
- Follow the instructions on the Submit a Podcast page.
- Note that you will need a valid iTunes account, and you will need to be logged into iTunes.
- You will receive a confirmation email from Apple.
Here's the 'medium' quality version (previous version was reduced for MMS) of the video entirely captured, edited & processed on the N95 - quite impressive for a phone! (NOTE: - Vox recompresses video uploads to Flash video - so quality won't be as good as the original mp4 version)
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 |
|
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. |
|
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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. |
|
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 |
|
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.
Pics from session2.
We covered:
1. Creating your Blackboard Homepage
2. Setting up GMail
3. Setting up your Vox blog/eportfolio
4. iPod Touch mail setup.
