Using ‘Paint’ to create simple quizes for a phone

Lilian Soon of xlearn is superb when it comes to using mobile phones with learners, and one technique that she has developed is creating a series of small image files, which you then distribute to the learners phones, and if they flick through them in sequence they have a learning object. Lilian has created a [...]

Voice to text for free using SpinVox

There are various options for software that will convert speech to text, the best known being Dragon produced by Nuance, and I am often asked if there are any free alternatives, which up until now I have not been able to suggest.
For the last few weeks  I have been using ping.fm as a conduit that [...]

‘Mobile phones are strictly prohibited’

Something that really annoys me, is signs like this:-
“The use of mobile phones in the reception area is strictly prohibited”, why do they need to put the word ’strictly’ into the sign? – What is the difference between something being ‘prohibited’ and something being ’strictly prohibited’ – and why was I allowed to take this [...]

Learners ‘recording’ lectures with their mobile phones!

Last week at a MoLeNET event, James Clay pulled of an impressive stunt, where he used his mobile phone to record and broadcast live to the Internet a question posted to the panel of experts, showing both how easy it would be for a learner to do the same thing, and then how many issues [...]

We need more power scotty!

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Originally uploaded by Dave Foord

Mobile learning is sweeping across education. At the same time a large number of schools and colleges are being rebuilt and have been designed to serve the next 50 years, but a lot of these rebuilds are not thinking about how people are going to charge their personal mobile devices – [...]