Amanda Hardman presentation to eLCC conference, April 14, 2016

1. Multimodal Mobile Learning
in the English Classroom
Amanda Hardman
www.cyrilandersontraining.com

2. mLearning
“mLearning is the use of mobile technology to aid in the learning,
reference or exploration of information useful to an individual at that
moment or in a specific use context.” (John Feser, Float Learning)

3. Affordances of mLearning
• Timing
• Information access
• Context
• Assessment
• User-generated content

17. Learning Objects
• Video lecture content:
• Succinctly explain issues for composition
• Alternative to talking head or screencast
• Intuitive, “low skill”
• Engaging “lead-in” series for literature topics
• Framing to set expectations
• Identify objectives for the module
• Entry point to discussion

18. Why Learning Objects?
• Beneficial for online and F2F teaching
• Reusable in new contexts
• Combine in new ways
• Integrate with web tools for new purposes

19. Pinterest

22. Potential Challenges
• Access to mobile technology
• Using institutional devices
• Managing class time

23. Definite Benefits
• Creative explorations
• Boosts student confidence when used with scaffolding
• Increased student engagement
• Students apply understanding of multimodal composition and think
through deliberate decisions such as structure, pacing, image/text
relationship, etc.

24. Other Uses
• Student-led projects
• Presentation supplements
• Creating a cache of shared course-related material
• “Go Viral” or other social media projects (Pinterest, Facebook)
• Required or extra-credit projects

25. What’s in your mLearning toolbox?
• Adobe Voice
• Storehouse
• Evernote
• Explain Everything
• ThingLink
• Remind
• Grading apps
• And . . . ?

27. Questions

28. www.whistlerwag.com

29. Slides available at:
http://bit.ly/1RuBgLV
Contact: Amanda.Hardman@rrcc.edu