MOBILE LEARNING

LEARNING OUT AND ABOUT

FARZANA LATIF

ABOUT THIS SESSION

• Compass

(direction)

• GPS

(know where we

are)

• Gyroscope -

Altitude

ABOUT THIS SESSION

• Create Mobile Walk for Students –

treasure hunt

• Enable Students to Collate and Share

Data at a location

Why?

PUBLIC HEALTH WALK

• Health students need to understand an area that they work

in

• Walking around an area can identify health issues

PUBLIC HEALTH

WALK

HEALTH WALK

See http://blogs.city.ac.uk/care for more information

OTHER EXAMPLES –

SCIENTIFIC DATA

OTHER EXAMPLES – HISTORIC

WALKS (MUSEUM OF LONDON)

Museum of London – Accessing Historic Pictures

OTHER EXAMPLES –

NEW STARTERS

OTHER EXAMPLES –

ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeology Walk in Sheffield – getting from Mappin Street to Heeley City Farm

• 1st year UG students

• Students encouraged to take pictures, audio recording (helps the connect with the surroundings) offering a more varied and richer experience

• different types of activities, read out poem on building, more likely to remember the experience.

• Encourage Group work

• Look and Think and observe all things archaeology

• Explore Sheffield

• Students Creating Walks

• Offers opportunities over writing on a piece of paper, connect more with the surroundings

“You can’t replicate everything in a book/lecture you

have to experience things in the field.”

GIVE IT A GO

- Find the diamond building

- Complete the questions

ACTIVITY

- How could this be used?

- What is the value?

- https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/1DH0lgZ

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- https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/FfINUnul

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QUESTIONS?

Any Questions

CREATING DATA

• Taking Pictures

• Making Comment

• Annotate Maps

EXAMPLE

EPICOLLECT

• Create forms for learners to complete

• Collate different types of date

• Audio

• Images

• Text Entry

• View / chart with Maps

GIVE IT A GO

• Open Epicollect

• Fill out the Form

The camera can

sometimes

disappear, but it

is still there!!

DATA OUTPUT

http://epicollectserver.appspot.com/project.html?n

ame=wednesday

http://epicollectserver.appspot.com/project.html?n

ame=colin1

DATA OUTPUT

How will be useful in your context?

GIVE IT A GO - ARIS

http://arisgames.org

CONSIDERATIONS

• Connectivity

• Image Recognition

• Equality

• What if students don’t have a device?

• GPS Accuracy

• Indoor, outdoor, big building

• NB, iPad wifi only model does not have GPS built in

• Safety

• Any Others?

OTHER TOOLS

• Creating a walk for students

• Junaio

• Layar

• ARIS

• Students collating Data

• Epicollect

• FieldtripGB – allows you to download maps

• ARCGIS – you can overlay maps, e.g. a old map or

transport links, annotate maps, measure distances

between points

• Flickr - images

THANK YOU

• Any Questions?

• Contact Me: Farzana.Latif@sheffield.ac.uk

• Contact Team: TEL@shef.ac.uk