Participants


 * List of us who wish to share**

Who you are, how you would like to be involved. What skills you have to share and what needs you have to be met

[|EDUPOV website] [|Personal website] I'm actively involved in a number of projects that are pushing the mobile learning space for re-purposing of body wearable geo-enabled data veillance POV equipment in the education & training sectors. Of course this overlaps into any number of related industries and research areas however, with John's connection we are looking for opportunities to form a praxis of these ideas and the practical application of these technologies across an array of areas globally.I have a mobile phone and now I need to wear it.Looking for true rich media apps. and equipment to realize that need. media type="youtube" key="1X0X5HYxih0" height="385" width="480"
 * Alexander Hayes**

[|Website] I'm passionate about the need to nurture creativity and the capacity to think. The 3 R's are important but we are not going to climb up the OECD ladder and be globally competitive through simply having a country full of people who can read and write. Our point of difference will be the value we provide through the way we think and create. Mobile phones are part of life for youth today and I believe can be used as powerful tools for learning and creativity both inside and outside the classroom.
 * John Eyles**

[|@dvint1] [|Blog] I believe it is important to are our teachers with the right solutions for todays youths, and to help them take learning from a textbook in a class out into their everyday environment, and show them, for example, the depth of history they surrounds them everyday.
 * Scott Judson

I am currently developing location based social mobile apps (mainly iphone and android) and have a deep interest in augmented reality as well, and see this as a key tool in the future of learning. **

**Robert Douglas** [|Website & Blog] I am the Director fo ICT at Howick College, Auckland. Today's students view their mobile as their life. It has their music, contacts, images.and more. Often this or another mobile device (iTouch, Nintendo, PSP) is their access to the internet. Why then should educators prescribe what devices the stduents must use? Why do eductaors say you must use this desktop, or laptop, or netbook? My goal is to rebuild the school infrastructucture and staff mindset so as to allow students to use their device of chocie in their own learning; to make learning easier and more inclusive for all students.

UOW home page I'm really keen on helping beginning teachers consider the potential of mobile phones and other 21st century technologies. I'm still learning myself. I curently teach people to be secondary teachers, and spend the rest of time as an educational researcher. Last year I created a short project with a group of almost beginning teachers to see if Twitter could help them develop self-reflective practices. The presentation related to that at the WCELfest 2010, is now on Slideshare. I'm currently developing an mLearning day (July 7) for both the secondary graduates, interested University of Waikato staff, and any teachers interested. Nathan and Robert will be starring, along with other people already doing stuff with mobile technologies in schools and tertiary institutions and elsewhere. I intend to be able to fully advertise it in late April.
 * Noeline Wright**

Community Art Project Blog School Project Blog As an artist I have always used creativity, in what ever work I am doing, be it community based art projects, working in schools or on my own work. Through my work in schools and recently as a trustee at the local high school, the importance of creativity and innovation to schools is becoming more and more obvious. The ever increasing range of mobile devices is opening up a huge range of opportunities for everyone but in many schools, they are seen as a problem. For a low decile school such as ours, where many students do not have access either to the internet or other ICT equipment outside of school, but do have powerful mobile/smart phones, ipods etc. we need to find ways to utilise this.
 * Simon Gray**

At present I am gathering information about the use of mobile devices in education and looking to how we can implement their use at our school. Just got to get the staff on board.

http://thomcochrane.wikispaces.com/ @http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/ I've been exploring the potential for mobile web 2.0 to enhance tertiary education over the past four years. We've focused upon the unique affordances of smartphones and how these can be combined with web 2.0 tools to create student-centred social constructivist learning environments within and outside of the formal learning environment. Thus I have been interested in students creating content and sharing and enhancing their learning experiences rather than generating and distributing teacher-created content. The integration of mobile web 2.0 into several tertiary courses has impacted both lecturers and students, often transforming more traditional pedagogical approaches. In this approach the teacher/lecturer models and integrates the use of the mlearning tools as part of an intentional community of practice including the lecturers, a technology steward, and the students. This year I'm particularly interested in exploring augmented reality apps on smartphones and establishing inter-institutional collaborative mlearning projects.
 * Thomas Cochrane**

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If you missed the MaoriTV 411 show episode 7, 10:30pm Friday 23rd April, then here are the links to the episode and an online version of Unitec's section of the show. Link to view or download [] 411 website [] Episode 7 []

Wireless Mobile Device Learning
Using mobile devices as an educational tool is key according to Thom Cochrane, from Unitec in Auckland. Unitec now has 260 students using wireless mobile learning devices such as iPod Touch and smart phones and Web2.0 or ‘social software’ tools like blogs, wikis, podcasting and other interactive online tools to support and enhance student learning. We headed onto campus to find out how students are using this technology to be producers of their own learning…

Carmel College E learning coordinator and teacher in charge of IT. Passionate about education and technologies. Very excited about new mobile devices and their use in education. We made the decision to allow mobile phones in school at the start of 2009 and we are just beginning to experiment with how to use them in a classroom situation.
 * Rich Rowley**

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[|Howick College] Hi!, I am a teacher at Howick College - East Auckland, New Zealand. I recently won numberous international teaching awards for my work with Robert Douglas, and my students on learning, and mobile devices...better known as mLearning. Last month (March, 2010) the New Zealand Government awarded to myself, and Robert Douglas a mLearning contract to develop, and deliver best practices of mLearning across New Zealand.
 * Nathan Kerr**