The document discusses several educational apps for learning including:
- LUPO Mini Microphone for recording lectures and bookmarking with text or diagrams. Recordings can be emailed or listened to in AudioNote.
- Skitch for annotating photos, screenshots, and asking questions that can be shared on social media. Annotations are saved in EverNote.
- Foursquare for exploring locations, recommending places, and leaving tips. Useful for exploring an area's history through photos overlaid on the screen.
- HootSuite for managing multiple social media accounts from one app. Useful for tracking conversations and measuring campaigns.
- YouCam Makeup for virtually trying on hairstyles by taking your own photo or
5. Cloud Easy
storage to use Fun
Clever
Gives a Creative
technical Time
fix saving
Relevant Interesting
6.
7. LUPO Mini Microphone for Apple
• Allows the user to record
iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad
meetings, classes etc.
• The recording can be
“bookmarked” either with text,
symbols or diagrams
• The recording can be emailed to
a user or listened to in
AudioNote (note they will need a
free audio app. on their device)
• The note can be transferred to
your computer through iTunes
and viewed as text or .pdf
9. Skitch
• Allows the user to annotate photos, sketches,
screenshots etc.
• Useful for taking photos and asking questions
• Questions (e.g. where am I?) can be emailed to a
tutor or sent via Twitter or Facebook.
• Save in EverNote for viewing later – the same
people have developed it
10.
11. • Check thousands of places
• Pick up or make recommendations
• Become the Mayor of a place
• Search for particular things in a
town or area
• Leave tips for other visitors
12. • Manage your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and
Foursquare accounts
"HootSuite is an essential tool for
managing social networks by
allowing teams to efficiently track
conversations and measure
campaign results."
- Pete Cashmore, CEO, Mashable
• Manage all
your social
media from
one app!
• Can be
used to
13. • Find you perfect hairstyle!
• Use a model or take your own photo and put
hair on it!
• Save your picture, print it
out and take to the
hairdresser!!
• An example of an app with
real vocational value!!
14. • Allows the user to use genuine MS
Office to create or edit documents
• Works with your DropBox account
• View and edit PowerPoint slides
• View virtually any type of file and send in true PP mode (not as a .pdf
via e.mail emulation)
• Automatically saves documents
• View and edit documents on any
device
15. • Reveals old photos near your current location
• Overlays them onto your screen
• You can add your photos using your iPhone
camera
• Explore the
history of an area
through your
iPhone using the
in built GPS
16. • A games based
learning app that
supports revision for
tests and exams
• Create quizzes
17. There is an active Google doc which you can upload your ideas or
simply view
http://bit.ly/N2wYw7
18. Given that apps and mobile learning are here to stay
(???), can you make a brief comment on your thoughts
about whether they have a future in teaching and
learning and even….how you might use them?
19. Excellence in Inclusivity
Chris Barber
07966 753901
c.p.barber@leeds.ac.uk
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/yh
Notas del editor
Welcome to the session, before we start is there anybody who has any particular requirements?
Some of you may have seen this but it is indicative of .app learning reaching some sort of maturity, we could add many more onto this now, given that the iTunes store now claims to have over 600,000 apps and Android has c.500,000 with Blackberry lagging behind at a mere 30,000. Interestingly there has been a 37% removal rate for Android apps and hardly any for Apple apps, no doubt because of their quality control system which I leave you to make a judgment on!
What I’ve done here is pick a few apps, they’re not necessarily the best , there may be alternatives but with such a large market to go at, I have had to choose some that I feel are noteworthy. Notice the reference to Cloud Storage which an increasing number of people are turning to for their storage– there are some issues with access at some learning providers which need to be addressed but overall the potential is huge. Other areas which are becoming increasingly “interesting” include Augmented Reality and Games Based Learning – more of which in a few moments. Game based learning is an area where good apps abound. I’ve included 3 in here which are perhaps slightly contentious. I would urge you to search for the subject based apps. The market is now developing a sort of maturity in which some of the simpler, boring apps are being replaced by more effective, interesting and inclusive apps
Just to draw your attention to a repository of websites and ideas that I’ve set up for the Conference – Scoop.it can be used to collect websites and resources and display them in a magazine-like manner. I believe that anybody (with the owner’s permission) can add to this site or indeed make their own very easily, just visit www.scoop.it
Ok, so what do we look for in an app? There are many advantages to using these, notably that they can be loaded onto a number of devices simultaneously and the learner will, in all likelihood, have a smartphone or similar device which they can lead the apps onto. The whole area of mobile learning, learning on the go, using learner owned devices, is perhaps the greatest educational change that we will see in the next few years – to misquote this is not the beginning of the end but the end of the beginning!
Of all the apps available, I’m just going to concentrate on these 7, for no particular reason and to give you an opportunity to look at these on the devices available and make some comment and observations on their usefulness for teaching and learning
Meetings Dyslexic learners Visual learners
Sending routes Asking questions from remote regions
Could be used by learners to find and area and make comments on it e.g. fieldtrips Learners can become the Mayor of a place for visiting
A newish app, useful for gathering and sending information to all or some of your social media
A brilliant little app for girls!!
Edit and produce any Office document, spreadsheet, PP etc and upload to your DropBox account
Shipley College are using iPads to support VI learners Linkage College are testing out the use of iPads to replace bespoke devices – Tap to Talk