Mobile Technologies in Education (mobile learning)

There is no mobile technology in our workplace, therefore, we would like to introduce you some interesting mobile learning practices.


The following examples show us teachers try to adopt latest, attractive and interactive mobile technologies in classroom so that students are motivated to learn. Students usually are very interested in using mobile technologies since they are allowed to move freely in the classroom and more easy to "play" with their classmates. Also, It helps them understanding the concept through mobile technologies rather than memorization.


(Youtube videos below are embedded from Youtube, rights belong to contributors/uploaders in Youtube.) 


 Students and professors use their iPhones in the classroom at Abilene Christian University

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Using Mobile Devices to Bring Rich Media Content to Underserved Classrooms

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Video Tutorial Using Jing

It is our video tutorial about the collaborative tool, Google Docs.

Direct Link: http://vimeo.com/31713109, http://www.screencast.com/t/jP3zU35nX



We all agree that Google Docs really helps people to collaborate each other in groups since the group members can edit the same document simultaneously. And members also can share resources by uploading files to the Docs. With the permission settings (in Docs, it is called sharing setting), teachers can easily share online resources with different classes or students. Students can also allow their groupmates to access their documents to give comments or replies. It shows there is interaction between people.

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Mashing IT Up Activity

In the activity, we can make use of Google Map, Google Translate, J2E and Youtube to create a webpage to describe an island called Wong Yi Chau.

Through the activity, we can make our own interactive map easily without any professional skills. We can also share our experiences with the world coz we have Google Translate to do the interpretation. This is a nice trial for us to understand and relate recent technologies of Web/Cloud Computing. Harvesting digital resources on the Internet can be useful for interaction.

Fig 1. Using J2E to make webpages

Fig 2. Final product

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