[Moodle] Learning Management: managinglearning? managing students?

[Kevork Krozian]

Hi Paul,

 I think there is real merit in looking at the mobile potential.
If you wish we can move this to a mobile technology online community or 
similar.
Is that what you are looking at ?

Kind Regards

Kevork Krozian
kevork at edulists.com.au
www.edulists.com.au
Tel: 0419 356 034
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Shirren" <shirro at shirro.com>
To: "The Moodle Users' in Schools Mailing List" <moodle at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Moodle] Learning Management: managinglearning? managing 
students?


> On 9/11/09 12:52 PM, Laurie Savage wrote:
>> I like having a large screen with two or three
>> apps open simultaneously so I'm happy using Outlook and One Note for my
>> administration. For me, and I suspect others with failing eyesight,
>> usability trumps size every time.
>
> Fair enough. Accessibility is a very important consideration. You might
> like to explore ebook readers with variable font size and text-to-speech
> capability if those eyes get worse :-)
>
> If you are stuck in the office doing prep you obviously use a bigger
> screen. If you are teaching a practical lesson (tech, art or PE) there
> are advantages to a mobile device even if your eyes couldn't stand them
> for prolonged use.
>
> My wife can be in the middle of an Art class or out on the oval for PE
> and a student arrives late and she always has her ipod around her neck.
> Open bag, click, swipe, click...mark student as late, add a
> comment...click, back in bag. Too easy.
>
> Once you have used a mobile device this way being stuck on an old
> fellows computer is practical in the same way that storing recipes in
> BASIC on your eighties "kitchen microcomputer" loading and storing them
> from compact cassette tape was practical.
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