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Ongoing Prezi – tools for teaching and learning

Campbell — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:19:01 +0000

I thought I’d embed a Prezi file Ive been developing to curate websites and web tools which I think are helpful in learning and teaching. Its not complete, in that its not a presentation, but feel free to copy what Ive got and add or modify it.

Link to Prezi file – here – http://prezi.com/blnofkc6u0tu/maf-workshop-web-tools-for-teaching-and-learning/

MAF Workshop – Web tools for Teaching and Learning on Prezi

Setup Telstra ZTE MF626 USB Modem on Macbook Pro OS X Lion

Campbell — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:45:12 +0000

Spent some time today trying to set up my daughters Telstra ZTE USB MF626 modem on her new Macbook Pro 13 laptop. NOt exactly easy and Im not sure Ive got the best fix, but its the only way I could get it to work.

I plugged it in and installed the software which appears on the disk image mounted after the USB modem is inserted. Telstra Turbo Connection Manager version M02
After restarting and plugging in the modem the software started up but couldnt detect the modem and the connect button remained greyed out.
In System Preferences > Network Settings, the modem wasnt even listed.
A search online indicated that for OS X Lion I needed to install the latest software from Telstra which included new drivers from ZTE (maybe 64bit??).
So I downloaded the new software from a link here – http://www.zte.com.au/telstra/faqs.htm
Then I used AppZapper to remove the previously installed software from Telstra which I installed at step 1.
Then I installed the new software and restarted.
After restarting I inserted the modem, the new software started up and the Macbook mounted the disk image which is installed on the USB modem by default, which I ignored. But the new software failed also to detect the modem I had plugged in.
I ejected the disk image which is installed on the USB modem, then within about 5 seconds the new software detected the modem and I was able to connect.

I cant work out whats happening or causing this but the workaround seems to be ejecting that disk image before the USB modem is detected by the software.

Works now!

eBook Gesture Developments

Campbell — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:09:59 +0000

Check out this video of some eBook gestures developed by the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence…..

Coffee – all you need to know!

Campbell — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:26:54 +0000

mLearning – it’s bigger than mobile…

Campbell — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:06:47 +0000

I read an interesting blog post this morning which shifted my thinking totally on mobile learning. Ive always thought of mobile-learning or m-Learning as learning involving the mobile phone. Until now, when its like the lights were just turned on!

Donald Clark wrote about m-learning being learning that we do while on the move. I love that definition.

For me at the moment Im doing a lot of learning while moving – podcasts and sermons are usually what I listen to while riding or running or travelling. They’re on an iPod though not on my mobile phone. My teenage kids learn what many of their friends are up to via mobile versions of The Facebook on their mobile phones – for them iPods are just for music! Whenever I travel I see people using Kindles, iPods, phones (not making phone calls), books, documents….. all sorts of media. Some of these folks are using that tool to enable them to learn something.

Im glad my mlearning definition was challenged – I think it’ll help me think broader than simply a mobile phone when it comes to developing learning experiences for people on the move.

For people living in isolated areas in some of the remotest locations in the world their learning is not much different to those in cities commuting or learning while we are on the move.

They have to contend with power issues, accessing learning material, require a mobile connection to the internet, have limits on data storage, and the learning material needs to be in a format they can access and interact with on a mobile device.

What’s mLearning for you? Is it learning access and interactions with a mobile phone? Something different?