Mobile Technology in TAFE

Mobile Technology in TAFE websites are all about m-learning, e-learning and mobile technology. I also have more information at Mobile Technology in TAFE wiki and Mobile Technology in TAFE blog. Please use my sites to learn more about how we use these technologies with students. Some of the older episodes do not start when you press play click on download instead!

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Audio: Putting mobile technology into main stream trades.

This is the audio only to the presentation by Andrew Nicholson (Project Officer: Trades and Rural) from Great Southern College of TAFE at WA E-learning Showcase, 2006. He talks about how trade lecturer's are using PDAs with trainees. Discusses how lecturers went to Nerd school to increase their skills.

Nov 12, 2006•15 min

Audio: Putting a bigger E into management

This is the audio from interview with Kathy Keay, Great Southern TAFE, where she talks about her College's Learnscope project on "Putting the bigger "e" in management". The idea of their project was to increase the knowledge and skills of their managers so that they had a better understanding of technology and e-learning. Thanks to Kathy Keay and Great Southern TAFE for permission to podcast their presentation.

Nov 12, 2006•4 min

Video: Delivering PD to staff on Web 2.0

This is a window media player video of Challenger TAFE's presentation on Web 2.0 at WA Learnscope E-learning Experience. The main focus is how the training was delivered and what the staff gained from the process. Unfotrunately some of the audio was recorded too low.

Oct 29, 2006•9 min

Video: Challenger TAFE PDA project 2007

This is a video that I created using Moviemaker for a presentation on my PDA project. It shows the reasons why I started using PDAs, the types of materials I use on PDAs with students, the students thoughts on using the PDAs and how other lecturers find using PDAs with students. For more information go to using PDAs with students.

Oct 11, 2006•6 min

Audio:Students thoughts on using PDAs

I trialled PDAs with aquaculture students in 2006. The PDAs were not used in every session, and were only used when I felt they were appropriate. The material on the PDAs relate to fish health (i.e. how to use microscopes, how to do fish dissection, anatomy of fish, how to diagnose fish diseases, common parasite diseases of fish and include videos that show what fish diseases look like using a microscope. This is an interview with my students, from two different classes, on how they found using ...

Sep 27, 2006•10 min

Audio: How PDAs can be used as a mobile reference source.

This is an interview with Rajiv Singh, maritime lecturer, at Challenger TAFE on how he uses PDAs to enhance his work. He talks about how he uses his PDA as a mobile reference source and the usefulness of PDAs for his maritime students. For more information go to technology and PDA software.

Sep 08, 2006•11 min

Technology and its use with students

This is an interview with Becky Saunders, who teaches Instructional Design to TAFE lecturers, on her thoughts of using emerging technology, including PDAs, with students. She makes excellent points about how we need to consider the needs/wants of our students when using any teaching strategy with students. If you look further down the page you will see this is also a repeat because of the chipmonking issues.

Sep 07, 2006•13 min

Video: Example of a video that was created for using on PDAs

This is an old episode that does not play properly in the embedded player however if you press download it will view okay I have much better examples of videos that we use on PDAs. However the unique thing about this video is iIt was originally in VHS video format and I used a video capture card (AVerMedia EZCapture) to obtain a digital image which was then edited using Microsoft MovieMaker. This information on how to create video podcasts explains how I created this movie. If you want my later ...

Aug 29, 2006•46 sec

Audio: Benefits/Challenges of using PDAs with groups of students

This is an interview with John Pozzi, a fishing lecturer, on how he found using PDAs with his class of 14 fishing students for knot tying. He explains: How their use benefited both him and the students; Suggestions on how we could optimise the benefit of using PDAs with students; I recommend you listen to his thoughts if you are planning to use PDAs in the classroom. For more information go to using PDAs with students.

Aug 28, 2006•5 min

Audio: TAFE Students thoughts on podcasting

This is the first podcast I created. The part I enjoyed the most was working around grabbing people to interview (not sure if they felt the same). I found the PDA recorded the interviews well and gave the recordings a nice out there feel. I did however learn do not place PDA to close to their face as it causes distortion. I interviewed 4 TAFE students using a PDA to learn about how they thought podcasting could be used to enhance their learning. It is 5 minutes and gives some interesting insight...

Aug 27, 2006•5 min

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