N95 Video editing

Here's a quick example of using a Nokia N95 to capture and edit a video (including inserting still images, audio and titles) then upload it (Emailed to my account at xxxxxxxxx@mms.youtube.com) to YouTube all from the N95 - no 'computer' involved!


Oops - in my excitement I forgot I added a section of copyrighted audio as an additional soundtrack! It's interesting to see how YouTube's automatic copyright identification picked that up!
http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83766&hl=en_US

"UMG has claimed some or all audio content in your video n95 video example (MyN95Video.mp4). This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification program.

Your video is still live because UMG has authorized the use of this content on YouTube. As long as UMG has a claim on your video, they will receive public statistics about your video, such as number of views. Viewers may also see advertising on your video's page."



Don't worry - I won't be making any money from this video :-D


I'll upload an edited version with my own original music instead shortly!


Version2 - non copyright below now! In the N95 media gallery I chose my edited video, then chose 'change sound' and replaced the first audio track with one from my old band (When I used to be a rock star!). VOILA!

New generation of laptops is literally child's play

Here's an enthusiastic look at the ASUS Eee PC - a miniature affordable laptop that (I think) has huge potential in education

New generation of laptops is literally child's play: "Grateful"

(Via New Zealand Herald - Technology & Science.)

You have a PXT from 6421753814

Video entirely captured edited & processed for mms on N95

You've received either a PXT or video PXT. To view your PXT simply open the attached files, each item will be attached separately. For example, if you have received a PXT containing a picture and a text message you will have two files attached. If your message is a PXT in most cases any media player should be able to open it. If you've received a video PXT (this will have the ending ".3gp"), or if you have received a sound or image file ending in .amr, .wbmp, .iMelody, or .gif you will need to install a special media player to play it. In the case of .3gp, .amr or .gif files you can download QuickTime free of charge, which is compatible with both PC and Mac computers.      Visit PXT World to find out all about PXT and create awesome picture messages!

Interactive Concept Map

I've added an 'Interactive Concept Map' to give a visual representation of the workflow and interaction of the smartphone and mobile web2 services that we are aiming at in the mobile projects. Let me know if this helps with conceptualizing what we are doing!

http://ltxserver.unitec.ac.nz/~thom/mobileweb2concept2.htm

Mobile Web2 Concept Map

I've put together a visual 'concept map' of the mobile web2 trials and a table briefly outlining the web2 tools and their pedagogical alignment with a constructivist learning environment.

Any feedback welcome!

Right-click image and 'save as' to download higher resolution version (Low res embedded in blog post for space saving).

Pedagogical Design

The core activity of the project is the
creation and maintenance of a reflective Blog as part of a course group
project. Additionally a variety of mobile friendly web 2 tools are used in
conjunction with the smartphone. The trials investigate how the smartphone can
be used to enhance almost any aspect of the course. The project uses the
smartphone and Personal Computers for the following activities (see the
following table illustrating the alignment of these activities with the
projects underlying social constructivist pedagogy):

Activity	Overview	Pedagogical outcomes
A reflective Blog	A blog post (including media) can be uploaded directly to VOX using the Vox client on Nokia smartphones, or Shozu (http://www.shozu.com), or emailed to VOX xxxxxx@moblog.vox.com	Developing critical and reflective thinking
An eportfolio	VOX (http://www.vox.com ) includes media sharing (video, audio, documents, images, links…) and linking (YouTube, Flickr etc…) as well as social networking.	Collaborative sharing of media and peer critique, also forms the basis for a career portfolio.
Email	GMail (http://gmail.com ) provides a free email account that can be used on almost any Internet capable device. A GMail account also opens free access to all other Google web services. The Google Java application optimises GMail for phones.	Communication and collaboration
RSS	RSS enables subscribing and tracking/sharing of online activity. It provides a link between all your web 2 media sites. Google reader (http://reader.google.com ) is a great web based RSS reader, while Newsgator (http://www.newsgator.com ) also provides RSS clients for synchronisation via PC, Mac or mobile.	Collaboration
Shared Calendars	Google Calendars (http://calendar.google.com ) can be shared between groups of people via invitation. Google Calendars use an open format that provides interoperability between many calendar systems – e.g. iCal on Mac OSX	Time scheduling and collaboration of activities
Image Blogging	Dedicated image sharing repositories such as Flickr and picasaweb offer more interactive features than Vox’s image repository, and are linkable to Vox and other Blogging systems. Direct mobile upload to Flickr can be achieved via either the Vox client, or email. Picasaweb mobile is supported via Shozu destination uploads.	Event, data and resource capturing and collaboration. Creativity.
Video Blogging	YouTube (http://www.youtube.com ) is currently the most popular video sharing site. The mobile version supports viewing of videos online in the mobiles web browser, or via a downloadable Java client for specific phones. Uploading mobile videos to YouTube is achieved via email attachments.	Event, data and resource capturing and collaboration. Creativity.
Shozu	Shozu is a service for linking all your online mobile Blog and Media sites together via either the Shozu client application, or an email sent to go@m.shozu.com	Shozu provides links between all the pedagogies described.
Podcasting	Uploading an audio file to Vox creates a podcast episode that others can subscribe to via an automatically created RSS feed.	Interviews, critiques, reflections, shared collaboration.
Instant Messaging and Skype	Fring (http://www.fring.com) is a free Instant Messaging and Skype client for most mobile phones. It allows messaging between the most popular IM systems. It works best over a WiFi connection, or good 3G connection.	Communication and collaboration
Shared Bookmarks	Delicious (http://del.icio.us ) is a social bookmarking site – allowing the creation and sharing of Internet bookmark libraries and searching via tags (descriptive keywords). Mobilicious (http://mobilicio.us ) a mobile optimised version.	Collaboration
LMS	Moodle is a mobile friendly Learning Management System, hosted on a production level Unitec server. Course notes, discussion forums, and various activities can be hosted on Moodle.	Scaffolding and support
Mobile Google	A gateway into the Google Mobile services (http://mobile.google.com ) via the phones web browser. iGoogle (http://www.google.com/ig/i ) is a customisable mobile Google Homepage.	Links to tools that support all of the mentioned pedagogies.
Mobile Codes	Mobile Codes (Datamatrix codes in this case) provide sharing of URLs, text and messages via scanning using the smartphones built-in camera. Codes can be created and downloaded from http://mobilecodes.nokia.com and scanned using either a compatible scanning application on the mobile phone.	Scaffolding, support, collaboration.
Web Browsing	The Built-in Web Browser is very good, but in some cases Opera Mini may work better, and Opera Mini has several tools built-in (RSS feeds, synchronisation with Opera on a PC etc…)	Research skills
Document Reading & Editing	Google Docs (http://docs.google.com ) is Microsoft Word, Excell and Powerpoint compatible. Documents can be uploaded and shared and edited by a group. They are viewable online in a web browser without MS Office. Docs can be created on mobile devices by emailing the document to a private Google Docs address. To edit uploaded documents you need a full PC web browser, or a full version of ‘QuickOffice’ on your smartphone – a mobile version of MS Office (~ $60).	Documentation, reflection, critique, description, and collaborative document publishing etc…

Table 1.
Table of trial activities aligned to social constructivist pedagogical
outcomes.

DipLandscape Design Mobile trial 2008

Today saw the start of the third mobile trial with Diploma Landscape Design students

• 2006 - Palm TX WiFi PDAs, SplashBlog


• 2007 - Nokia N80 smartphones, Wordpress & Vox


• 2008 - Sonyericsson P1i smartphones plus Bluetooth keyboards, Vox

In this initial session we covered:

• Introduction of the project


• Created GMail accounts


• Created Moodle accounts and Profiles (including photos)


• Created Vox eportfolio accounts


• Handed out the smartphones

As you can see, they are a 'more mature' bunch of students than previous years! The Web2 'Net Generation' is an attitude - not an age differentiator :-)

Overview of Mobile2

A nice slideshare on Mobile2:

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Sunrise @ Blind Billies - Middlmarcn

The one redeeming feature of Blind billies! & the showers!

Cycling the otago railtrail

Halfway through the otago halfway - a great relaxing 4 day ride with good food & quaint accomodation!

N80 Launch with BDesign (Product) students!

Yesterday we handed out the Nokia N80's and got students underway with WiFi accecss while we're waiting on Vodafone to sign students up on voice and data plans (C'mon Vosafone - get your act together!!!).

MobBlogs

This post from Roger's Vox blog today: (Bachelor Product Design Tutor)
PS - it was a fun session - a bunch of enthusiastic students and two enthusiastic Tutors as well!

MobBlogs: "MobBlogs







Blogging Session

A huge thanks to Thom Cochran from the Unitec CTLI (Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation) who came into studio this morning and ran a session on blogging and mobile blogging.
The staff along with Thom are researching into the effectiveness of mobile blogging and how it might contribute to or enhance teaching and learning. The Bachelor of Product Design is based upon the 'classic' studio teaching model and through our research project we aim to disrupt this model and seek a new model(s) for the programme. Thom is running another research project with the Landscape Architecture Department and both these projects will be contributing to his PhD studies.



Today we gave out Nokia N80's to a 8 selected students. The N80's come with folding bluetooth keyboards to make copy writing that much easier.
All students in the 3rd year are required to blog as part of their final year projects but these 8 will be taking part in the mobile blogging research project. Each client has been encouraged to take part in the blogging process and to interact with the students whenever possible.

DesignProjects3 11/03/08 8:59 PM DesignProjects3 mobile blogging ctli"

(Via DesignProjects3.)

iPod Touch Trial begins!

Today we started an iPod Touch mobile trial with Diploma of Contemporary Music students! Great fun - everyone got their iPod Touch configured and setup on the WiFi network.










Participants:

12 students – students volunteer to participate using provided iPod Touch.

Course Tutors

Technology Steward (Thom Cochrane – CTLI)

The main focus of this project is on the support and enhancement of face to face teaching and learning by using mobile wireless devices (iPod Touch) as a means to leverage the potential of current and emerging collaborative and reflective e-learning tools (e.g. blogs, wikis, RSS, instant messaging, podcasting, social book marking, etc…). These are often called “social software” tools. The iPod’s wireless connectivity and data gathering abilities (e.g. photoblogging, video recording, voice recording, and text input) allow for bridging the on and off campus learning contexts – facilitating “real world learning”.

The learning outcomes for students are

• Developing critical reflective skills


• Facilitating group communication


• Developing an online eportfolio


• Developing a potentially world-wide peer support and critique network


• Learning how to maximise technology to enhance the learning environment across multiple contexts

Students and teaching staff will be provided with an iPod Touch (16GB) for the duration of the trial (2008). Internet connectivity will also be available via Unitec WiFi network while on campus. This provides faster, free web access while on campus.

The project will be guided and supported by weekly “technology sessions” facilitated by Thom Cochrane (CTLI).

The core activity of the project is the creation and maintenance of a reflective Blog as part of a course group project. However the iPod can be used to enhance almost any aspect of the course:

The project will use the iPod Touch and PCs (Macs) for the following activities:

• A reflective Blog (Vox.com)


• An eportfolio (Vox.com)


• Email (GMail)


• RSS (Newsgator.com)


• Shared Calendars (Google Calenders)


• Image Blogging (Flickr)


• Video Blogging (YouTube)


• Podcasting


• Instant Messaging and Skype


• Shared bookmarks (Delicious)


• Accessing the Course Management System (Blackboard)


• Document reading (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, PDF using QuickOffice and Google Docs)

iPhone/iPod Touch Web Apps

A brief list of some favourite iPhone/iPod Touch Web Apps (While waiting on the flood of new iPhone apps as a result of the upcoming iPhone SDK release ;-)

• * Flickr Poto Sharing m.flickr.com/h


• * YouTube m.youtube.com/


• * Wordpress Blog m.wordpress.com/


• * Vox Blog www.vox.com/


• * Google Reader www.google.com/reader/m/view/


• * Google Calendar www.google.com/calendar/render


• * Google Docs docs.google.com/


• * GMail mail.google.com/


• * Pownce m.pownce.com/


• * Picasaweb photo sharing picasaweb.google.com/home


• * Google Maps maps.google.com/


• * MobileWebDocs www.mobilewebdocs.com/


• * iPocket Bible www.ipocketbible.com/go/login.asp


• * Netvibes Homepage iphone.netvibes.com/


• * SnapMyLife www.snapmylife.com/


• * Skype for iPhone s4iphone.com/index_iphone.jsp


• * AIM Instant Messaging x.aim.com/ty/#_startPage


• * JWire - find free WiFi hotspots iphone.jiwire.com/


• * Stopwatch www.kudit.com/desktop/kudit.php?shortname=stopwatch&success=false


• * Bloglines RSS Reader www.bloglines.com/mobile


• * Zoho MS Office mini.zoho.com/iZoho.jsp


• * Mundu Instant Messaging iphone.mundu.com/


• * Newsgator RSS Reader m.newsgator.com/iphone.aspx


• * iGoogle Homepage www.google.com/ig/i


• * Mobile Delicious Social Bookmarking mobilicio.us/

Product design student presentation

Moodle Case Study

An interesting case study of students perception on the use of Moodle and its web2 tools integration: from Educause

"Moodle, an open source course management software, is not only a tool for communication and reflection but also a virtual learning object. Explore how students in an information-literacy course respond to, comprehend, and use a variety of web 2.0 technologies in a single online environment."

Read the PDF report HERE.

Students use of IT

An interesting survey summary from Educause ECAR, outlining 10 key findings of the 2007 ECAR study of Students and Information Technology usage.
"What information technologies are used by undergraduates? How does IT contribute to their academic experiences and learning? What has changed since 2005? ECAR presents 10 key findings from the fourth annual survey of undergraduates, with responses from 27,846 students at 103 higher education institutions."

1. One size does not fit all


2. Social Uses of IT- Important and Personal


3. CMS Usage is Up


4. IT is All About Convenience


5. IT as a Utility


6. Students’ Assess Their IT Skills


7. Curriculum Matters


8. IT in Instruction –Striking the Balance


9. Mobility –A Steady Increase


10. Learning –It’s All about Instructors

ECAR conclude with two key action focii:

1. Action Focus: IT Services
   
   • • Move toward 24 x 7 availability
     –Networks
     –Email
     –CMS and other services
     
   • • Strengthen the Help Desk
   
   
   • • Continue wireless initiatives
   
   
   • • Watch usage trends for handheld devices


2. Action Focus: IT in Courses
   
   • • Know your students’ IT profile
     –What technology do they own?
     –What are their IT skills?
     
   • • Assess use of IT in courses
     –Is there a balance between IT and instructor
     interaction?
     –How can you leverage the curriculum?
     –Are faculty trained in the IT they need?
     –Do students have the skills they need?

Read more below:

Caruso, J. B., & Salaway, G. (2007). Highlights of the 2007 ecar study of students and information technology. ECAR Symposium 2007 Retrieved 21 January, 2008, from http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/Highlightsofthe2007ECARSt/45912

YouTube Mobile Updated

The YouTube mobile website version (http://m.youtube.com)has been updated with more features and a better interface, so now it supports almost any mobile phone with a data connection (Best viewed over a WiFi network!). There is also a YouTube Java appplication (currently for a small number of 3G phones - includes the Nokia N95) that can be downloaded from http://m.youtube.com/app. The Java app gives a similar experience to YouTube on the iPod touch or iPhone. Videos can now be uploaded directly from compatible mobiles to your YouTube account, or emailed to a special MMS number associated with your YouTube account.

Read more here:
http://www.youtube.com/mobile

iPod Touch Blog test2

There appears to be no option for adding attachments to emails on the
iPod touch - however when choosing a photo from the iPods library
there is now an "email photo" option!

Blog test.

Blog test.
I've updated my iPod touch with the Mail & Notes apps from todays
MacWorld announced 1.1.3 software update! These two apps should
significantly increase the usefulness of the Touch as a moblogging
device. I think this was the most interesting announcement of MW2008.
The Macbook AIR is nice but still too large & expensive to be a
contender for mobile education. The Apple TV has some nice updates.
Disapointingly no word on third party iPhone apps or 3G iPhone. I guess
we'll be waiting till Feb for those.

Sent from my iPod

Newsgator RSS reader clients now FREE!

Newsgators Mac & Windows and mobile device RSS readers are now all FREE!

I've been using the free version of NetNewsWire for years (lite) - but now the full version is free! I've also been using Newsgator Go (Java application) on my cellphone for RSS synchronization - this is now free as well. Newsgator is a great RSS solution that works anyway you want to (Desktop client, web interface, mobile - all synchronizing seemlessly). They must be facing tough competition from the likes of Bloglines and Google Reader to dump their client fees!

Isn't competition great!