Module 3: Applications and Educational Uses

In this module, we applied evidence-based practices of mobile learning for research, communications, collaboration, and productivity. I researched and compared mobile applications that integrate resources for various curriculum and target audiences.

Readings for this module included:

• 7 Things You Should Know About Mobile Apps for Learning
• Evaluation Rubric for iPod/iPad Apps
• An Investigation Into Mobile Applications and the Viability of Mobile Learning
• Create an Instant SMS Chatroom on Your Phone
• GroupMe, Fast Society Create Private Mobile Social Networks
• Google Goggles - Use Pictures to Search the Web
• YouTube Video: Google Mobile App for iPhone - Now With Google Goggles

Activities:

We were assigned to identify and download a classroom management app fro the iTunes store. Here is a list of the apps chosen by the students in the course:

• Explain Everything (this is the app that I chose) - Link to my first demo
  
• LanSchool Teacher's Assistant
• Stick Pick
• Teacher's Assistant
• Attendance App
• Evernote
• iBehavior
• iQuiz
• Socrative Teacher - Teacher/Student Clickers
• You Can Handle Them All

We were also assigned to select, from the iTunes store, an educational application that could be used in our own educational environments.

Here's the list of apps chosen by the students in the course:

• Preschool: FingerCountLt and Rhyming Lite
• NASA
• The Elements: A Visual Exploration
• Outliner App for iPad
• EasyBib Citation App
• Evernote
• Topographic Map
• Application for World Languages
• StoryKit
• Edmodo
• The Weather Channel App

Using Voice Activated and Video Call Apps

• We watched the video "Google Mobile App for iPhone with Voice Search"
• We also watched "Introducing Voice Actions for Android"
• Mobile Tips: Voice Activation for Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter with Vlingo
  
• No Facetime? No Problem with Tango And Skype Video Calling Apps
• Skype for iPhone with Video Chat