Reflection
of weeks 9
This week was call
mobile learning (m-learning). I'll put
many pictures with some comments to express the events as following:
Reflection
of session m-learning in Omnia :
Date:
3 jun 2012:
In
fact the session of the evaluation and assessment not much useful than
m-learning. So that I will talk about Omnia in Espoo which is the very good idea
and interesting visit. I would like to thanks all people specialist Mrs Mervi
Jansson to arrange and invite us in Omnia. Mervi and the staff welcome us to take
cup of coffee, also after good session they invited us to take good dinner. During the session I was feeling strange most of
this applications new, how they are training this application now a days. They answer
to me we were starting before two years ago in Omnia and the technician man of training
said some of the application will started to training before two months ago. I
wish to find like this vocational training centers in my country and offer
training in different fields to help and what they needs for jobs or find jobs.
They gave everyone an Ipad, then they explained how to use these programs
practically. Giving learners a chance to conduct programs using the devices not
by lecturing helps them to learn easily. I started using these program immediately
after the interesting visit. The main point of that visit was taught us how to
use Ipads, mobile phones in our classes ( Mobile Learning in a Nutshell ) which
will assist me as a teacher to be connected with my students everywhere and not
only inside the classroom. They provided plenty of apps such as dropbox, idea
flight, I movie, popplet, posterous, puppetpals, Qrafter, sound cloud,
stripdesigner etc.. In general the visit was very fantastic and I enjoyed it
very much. So, It is not enough one day.
Katri and Marja ended the week by revising
all theories gave us at the beginning of the course. They divided us in groups
where we discussed and summarised each theory. Then chose randomly one member from each group explained the
theory to the class. This way I think good for us to understood all theories well. Finally, Katri
and Marja did great job.
I'm a true fan, when it comes to mobile devices. I have used them for years in my teaching, but it is only during the past couple of years that also students have started using them (in our school the school doesn't pay the iPads, it's everybody's own business). While waiting for the time when your school buys devices for students, there is much you can do by yourself. Dropbox is a must, it's great to be able to reach your documents everywhere, but its real strength is in sharing and co-editing materials with colleagues.
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- irmeli