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June 08, 2006
Collaboration on the Move: Location-Based Learning & Web 2.0 Apps
I gave a presentation yesterday at a British Learning Association event titled 'Collaborative Learning' in which I highlighted trends in consumer mobile devices, location-based learning games, and Web 2.0 social tools which should be increasingly used for collaborative learning: podcasting, wikis, blogs, mashup examples and user generated video via You Tube. We polled the audience and found that only a few people were bloggers, most had heard of RSS and Podcasting but few had tried/used it, and most people had accessed a Wiki (mostly Wikipedia).
I recorded most of my talk using my iPod. It doesn't sound great as I wasn't using a good microphone that followed me around on stage, but will work as a quick follow up reference to those of you interested.
Download 10 meg .mp3 by clicking here.
Here are links to the examples I discussed (please send me an email to request the slides).
Docker's Dilemma Game for Docklands Museum produced by Celine Llewellyn-Jones, available to play soon, example of collaborative location-based earning between pairs playing with one device.
Blast Theory 'I Like Frank', example of players collaborating between online and in street to play the game.
Urban Tapestries example of annotating space with mobile phones to collectively add meaning and understanding to places. A good example of people benefitting beyond the active contributors by subscribing to virtual 'post it' notes via RSS.
I showed the RSS subscription capability of Google Personalized home page I use to see updates to blogs, news sites and video podcasts I'm interested in one place without having to access each separately and didn't mention the myriad of other tools such as FireAnt, and the Firefox Browser which do the same thing.
I talked about Mashups, connecting two web based applications to add value, and showcased a Google Maps focussed mashup site where you can find hundreds of examples.
I concluded with playing the Ask A Ninja 'What is Podcasting' video as an example of really engaging viral video and suggested it would be great to see more like it instead of traditional corporate training videos.
I then described You Tube, a site with millions of participants where anyone can upload videos for free where I found that somebody had animated the Ask a Ninja Podcasting explanation. Have a look here. Notice you can easily email it to friends. That's where the 'viral' comes in!
I concluded with plugging my 'How to Podcast Workshop' coming up tomorrow (of course), and showed the link to the video archive from our Seriously Mobile Event: Mobile Knowledge Workers: Providing Solutions for Performance.
Several people invited me to deliver a similar talk in their organisations and I'm really looking forward to it!
Comments are welcome!
Posted by Ron Edwards at June 8, 2006 08:15 AM
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