Blog/20110324 LTS Talk
New technology trends: Mobiles, tablets, Android, book readers & ePub in teaching and learning
Invitation to the LTS event on Thursday 24 March 2011
13.00-14.00 (with a buffet lunch available from 12.40): CARET, 16 Mill Lane
Your students may arrive at the University not just with computers to view back lecture notes or play audio-visual media, but a range of other portable devices, such as smart phones, media players, GPS-enabled cameras, tablets, and e-book readers. What do these new technologies mean for teaching and learning? In this talk, we'll demonstrate the capabilities of some of these devices, and show how some techniques to deploy content for learning. We will look at tools such as eXe to create learning objects, and Calibre to create ePub for ebook readers, how to use Android to deploy applications, as well as audio-visual materials for media players. We'll run the session as interactively as possible, with plenty of space for questions. If you have portable devices, bring them along for show and tell!
Some items/links for topics discussed in this talk:
- GPS (on cameras like TZ10 and mobile phones)
- Apple iPhoto to display GPS data
- https://www.google.co.uk/latitude
- Tablets
- Apple iPad
- Toshiba Folio
- Samsung Galaxy Tab
- Advent Vega
- Motorola Xoom
- SmartQ V7
- ...
- http://www.google.com/phone/
- eBook readers
- Kindle (2, 3, DX)
- Nook B&W, Color
- Kobo eReader
- ...
- Audio, video, screen capture
- Audio recorders (see e.g. http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/wiki/Tutorials#Audio_recording_a_lecture )
- Basic video cameras (e.g. Kodak Zi8, Zi10, with audio input)
- Screen recorders (such as Camtasia, Screen Flow)
- http://sms.cam.ac.uk
- http://camtools.cam.ac.uk
- Content creation
- OpenOffice with Writer2ePub plugin
- eXe http://exelearning.org/wiki
- Calibre http://calibre-ebook.com/
- Sigil http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ (Audience recommendation)
- Developing apps for android
- http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
- http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/
- Various options for developing apps on the phone
About the tablet work in Zambia: http://www.sciencemedianetwork.org/ANTSIT
Related event:
Mobile Technologies for Education Wednesday, March 30, 2011 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (GMT) The Humanitarian Centre & Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire http://www.humanitariancentre.org/events/
2011-03-24
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