This just in from Morgan Barker, an instructional designer at Humboldt State:
Hello Staff & Faculty,
I would like to personally invite you to campus sessions centered around the topic of mobile learning. The eLearning department will be holding a monthly 2014-15 Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session. Come join us -grab a cup of coffee and a croissant, during the session.
Sessions will run like an open mike forum - the perfect venue to start an academic discussion, ask questions, share your mobile lessons or learn from the campus community.
Fall Session Dates/Times - BYOD Mobile Learning Sessions
Friday, September 19th
Theme - Facilitate Classroom Use - mobile lessons, all disciplines
SH 117 9-10am
Friday, October 17th
Facilitate Collaborative, Content Sharing Elements, all disciplines
SH 117 9-10am
Friday, November 14th
Facilitate Field Journals, all disciplines
SH 117 9-10am
More Information - What is Happening at HSU with Mobile Learning? During Spring 2014 the College of eLearning facilitated a semester-long Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on mLearning that created a fun and safe environment in which faculty collaboratively explored, applied and shared mobile technologies and pedagogies to enhance student learning. Take advantage of these resources:
- Collection of the mobile lessons (mLessons): Mobile Lessons in Higher Education
- List of explored mobile apps: Spring 14 FLC mLearning Apps
- Join us with our Twitter hashtag: #mobileflc
- All Tweets will populate to our TagBoard: https://tagboard.com/mobileFLC
Cannot make these sessions? We will continue the use of
#mobileflc and our tagboard mentioned above. This is a great way to see
the conversations and add relevant content.
More and more events like this will be happening here as they are in the rest of the country. I am really interested in how these tools can change how students learn. I was very skeptical at first because when the iPad first came out, I saw it only as another consumption device and I associated "mlearning" with proprietary platforms. It is a different world now - the web has gotten to be a much more creative place to be since the dawn of Web 2.0 and it is really worth looking all of the ingenious uses of networks and even the simplest of tools. These events are the follow-up events that grew out of the mLearning Faculty Learning Community that Kim Vincent-Layton and Morgan Barker led last year - I highly recommend this and if you are on campus, please stop by.
