Shared Mobile learning, I’ve been reading a lot more of this since I came back lots of interesting stuff on the web, it fits in nicely with tagging/folksonomy Examples Flickr.com and http://del.icio.us/

Interestingly tagging seems to follow the long tail (also called Zipf power law!!!) that was mentioned at the conference.

del.icio.us is a web site where users store and tag links, you can view links by user and tags.

Eg all my del.icio.us links

My del.icio.us links tagged with education

and everybodies del.icio.us links tagged with education

Flickr does the same stuff with photos:

My Photos

My photos tagged with finland

Everybodies tagged with Finland

An article about folksononmy in guardian online 24 March and an earlier one

Neither of these services are child safe, but you could have quite an interesting site that would be.

For example:A site where classes/schools/pupils could upload photos and comments and tag them.

Groups form round tags/keywords invite classes to join in pictorial discussion eg on PSD keywords like ‘responsibility’ or ‘pride’ or’care’ or Art words ‘red’

Children/classes upload photos and scanns connected to tags with comments, classes can compare responses.

I attended this conference in Finland last week! With 3 other Glasgow Masterclass teachers and Tom Kane of prescience our video conferencing guru. I was presenting about our video conferencing efforts with De Rank. Talked a bit about blogs too.

I saw a host of other presentations and took a few notes, I intended to write them up, but have not had the time, too many links to follow. So I’ve just pasted my notes below, not very coherent but the links are there.

It was a fantastic trip I took a pile of photos some here.

EuropeanSchools Project in Finland

COMP@CT- Start

ECOLEHOME
Thursday

Learning goes Mobile Riitta Vanska NOKIA

screensize

media agnostic

not top down=informal??

project based learning = informal contribute

sharing

info nugget=for the macdonnalds generation don’t really like this term

Collaborative Mobile learning demo

Jurgen Scheilb & Teemu Leinonen, Media Lab University of Art and Desigh Helsinki Interesting

Learning Environments for Progressive Inquiry Research Group

SHARING

learning tool (Director!!)

Saw demo next day, results were not so pretty,tool looks very basic mind map sort of thing.

FLICKr type interface in flash might be more interesting.

Mind you everyone at the conference is doing ‘Mobile learning’ taking photos of presenter’s slides rather than taking notes. Marilyn says info-snaps

Friday

Spring Day in Europe 17th march missed it!

eTwinning

SchoolJournalsOnline

ECOLEHOME

learner constructed learning objects

process not answers

Bottom Up

ECOLE Best Club

Saturday

We are limited by network and software for internet projects

FLOSSEPosse

Lots of competition for providing project web space Folk looking for sales

Dr. Sheila O. Gersh

Teachingwith the Internet

Culture Quest

this looks interesting as there does not seem to be the same emphasis on relying/organising with partners, could go it alone.

SKYPE

The blog moved to a new server and we had a problem or two posting until we fixed some file permissions. But I seem t ohave the archive for this blog mixed up….

I’ve spent a couple of hours deleting comment spam from the weblogs. So I’ve now installed pivot blacklist

for me one of the really great things about weblogs is getting feedback and the idea of starting conversations. I really hope I can keep this stuff off the logs and keep comments on.