As some of you are aware I've been experimenting with different uses of QR codes in face to face teaching. A scenario that I've just tested is the following ... providing the presentation as a text file which the audience can download at the

At University of Bath we are about to roll our summer seminar series which are a number of 45 minute sessions. There are 5 sessions over 6 weeks. There is little new about that, however, for this event I have designed in a few new approaches that enh

This from iDA Singapore report on Mobile 2-D BarcodesThis report highlights that Japan and Korea have seen a development in the use of 2-D barcodes for a number of years 'aimed at simplifying the access of information and the creation of innovati

See my delicious tags for reference to article: http://del.icio.us/andyramsden/qrcodeI have to admit I felt a little cheated by this article as it was below my expectations. I found it quite difficult to understand what they were actually doing. That

See my delicious tags for reference to article: http://del.icio.us/andyramsden/qrcode This article introduces a very interesting application of QR codes through class assessment and feedback. They piloted the use of QR codes in a similar way to many

I've been experimenting with twitter for a few months trying to see any application for its use in Higher Education.I have to admit I'm warming to it nicely. For a certain group of my contacts and life style it is a very good way of keeping i

The use of rss aggregation to pull things together for an individual and personal view is becoming more common. However, this has resulted in potential confusion due to people having to subscribe to a number of RSS feeds. This can get a little unwiel

well it was one of those, wow moments - facebook works very well on my dell axim using the Opera Mobile web browser. It maybe a small step for mankind, but for me it wonderful ;-)

Google have recently released Picasa Mobile - for more info see http://www.google.com/mobile/photos/. So using a web browser such as Opera on a wi-fi'd PDA I can quickly look at my Picassa web albums (with comments), or search for others (photos

It is all very straightforward, just need a little time to explore :-)Open the software, then Tools >> Options >> scroll to Reading >> then browse for the required External Browser. 

I've just downloaded the pRSS reader for pocket pc (http://pda.jasnapaka.com/prssr/), and first impressions (well 40 minutes of experimenting) tends to suggest it is a winner, especially because it is free :-) The first observation is that I tend

It's been awhile since I got a chance to Blog ... but this is worth it :-)I've just purchased the Opera Web Browser for the Pocket PC, and all I can say is 25USD ... worth every penny (cent). The browser is great, it can handle some many more

The following link walks through the required settingshttp://www.iser.bris.ac.uk/cgi-bin/sdev/courselist.pl?sect=lt#LT1ATL  

For those at the University of Bristol - I've finally got around to setting up my wireless sync with the UoB's Calendar software - very easy, and incredibly useful - a big, big win in terms of liberation from the PC. Instructions are availabl

A very regular question for me, and strongly influenced by what you want to do (learning activity wise), and your resources. That said, if you are on a budget, and want one for less that £200.00, then the Acer N311 has recently won the group te

I recently had this question asked, where a person wanted to make available a presentation with a talking head (picture in picture) included. I thought, yes, use Camtasia 4, as I was very interested in seeing how it rendered on small screens - see pr

This is the first of a series of contributions which aims at unpicking the potential uses of using Camtasia 4 to record a presentation (or material for a presentation) and then publish these to others to view. Context A lecturer wishes to capt

A common method of evaluating the impact of a staff development session, is to use a survey and filter the results by key responses. This allows you to create subgroups, and assuming you've write appropriate questions then you can identify the impact

I’ve been using the turning point prs system in my 3 staff development workshops. In terms of attendees, this is about 6 people per session. Based on an action-research methodology, I’m reporting back on some observations after a recen

Great news, I've finally started to get some time and space to look at the upgraded Camtasia 4 - the first impression is it is going to make the creation of material for podcasting a lot easier. Such as, a check of a check box strips out the audio as

A couple of areas I've been working on with Turning Point PRS system is the use of conditional statements, session reports and writing questions on the fly. The use of conditional questions to influence the next slide is relatively straight forwar

A colleague and I used the turning point PRS system in a workshop. My first impressions are very positive - it worked and it energised the workshop. Traditionally, I would have collected the same information about the attendees, their requirements

Mark raised some interesting points in his comments to a previous contribution (http://www.mobile-learning.blog-city.com/iadis_mobile_learning_conf_report_1.htm), which I thought I’d unpick within this response. Firstly the issue of audiobay -

The quest for capturing lectures and making these available as a podcast continues. Infact I think that I’m nearly there!What I need is a system that is flexible enough for all our needs, not just powerpoint with audio, but for those lectures w

I've been continuing with the investigation of our eBeam interactive whiteboard. Currently, I've been investigating the use of virtual meetings between different locations. The first observation is that it doesn't offer an option for dialogue, so as