5 posts tagged “unitec”
Today saw the start of the third mobile trial with Diploma Landscape Design students
- 2006 - Palm TX WiFi PDAs, SplashBlog
- 2007 - Nokia N80 smartphones, Wordpress & Vox
- 2008 - Sonyericsson P1i smartphones plus Bluetooth keyboards, Vox

- Introduction of the project
- Created GMail accounts
- Created Moodle accounts and Profiles (including photos)
- Created Vox eportfolio accounts
- Handed out the smartphones



Today we started an iPod Touch mobile trial with Diploma of Contemporary Music students! Great fun - everyone got their iPod Touch configured and setup on the WiFi network.
Participants: 12 students – students volunteer to participate using provided iPod Touch. Course Tutors Technology Steward (Thom Cochrane – CTLI) The main focus of this project is on the support and enhancement of face to face teaching and learning by using mobile wireless devices (iPod Touch) as a means to leverage the potential of current and emerging collaborative and reflective e-learning tools (e.g. blogs, wikis, RSS, instant messaging, podcasting, social book marking, etc…). These are often called “social software” tools. The iPod’s wireless connectivity and data gathering abilities (e.g. photoblogging, video recording, voice recording, and text input) allow for bridging the on and off campus learning contexts – facilitating “real world learning”. The learning outcomes for students are
- Developing critical reflective skills
- Facilitating group communication
- Developing an online eportfolio
- Developing a potentially world-wide peer support and critique network
- Learning how to maximise technology to enhance the learning environment across multiple contexts
- A reflective Blog (Vox.com)
- An eportfolio (Vox.com)
- Email (GMail)
- RSS (Newsgator.com)
- Shared Calendars (Google Calenders)
- Image Blogging (Flickr)
- Video Blogging (YouTube)
- Podcasting
- Instant Messaging and Skype
- Shared bookmarks (Delicious)
- Accessing the Course Management System (Blackboard)
- Document reading (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF using QuickOffice and Google Docs)
Here’s a great example of a student’s own initiative in using web2 to document their learning at Unitec (Boat Building course):
Blog:
http://kiaoratearoa.blogspot.com/
Photoblogging using ‘Comic Life’ for annotations:
YouTube videos of process:
The Podcast three-day workshop series is generating fun & engagement from the participants. Have a listen to some of the participants ‘Podcast Shows’ from the links below - they will be updated each week, next week we are creating ‘enhanced podcasts’!!!
- http://vincedownunder.podomatic.com/
- http://vinceshepherd.podomatic.com/
- http://unilooney.podomatic.com/
- http://gkeam.podomatic.com/
NOTE: you can ’subscribe’ to podcasts shows using iTunes!

