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Presentation used during the afternoon session at WNC today

Ron — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:43:03 +0000

mlearning_intro_with_some_details_removed.pptx (290 KB)

This is the presentation and list of activities used during the session today but with some link and login details removed…

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ipadio: Ron’s phonecasts via iPadio – 11th phonecast

Ron — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:40:02 +0000

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ipadio: Castle College Thoughts

Ron — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:16:55 +0000

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Test of the WordPress Quizzin plugin

Ron — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:58:17 +0000

This is just a test of this ‘Quizzin’ plugin and how it displays and works on different devices. This post may well be deleted but for now it will be live while I’m testing.

I’m also keen to see if it inherits the wp touch theme and therfore looks good in itouch and iphone. We’ll see…

ipadio: Graciano Reflecting On First Presentations

Ron — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:44:06 +0000

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Using mobile technologies and my objectives for the event

Ron — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:02:25 +0000

I have two main objectives for the event:

1. To enable, facilitate and support everyone to contribute to a rich event report and resource everyone can use back in their organisations e.g. if you see and hear about the real impact of a particular technology, strategy, technique that you wish to implement or improve back in your own organisation how useful would it be to have access to everyone’s ideas and reflections regarding the same solution?

2. To demonstrate and disseminate the real impact the 3 years of MoLeNET has achieved and to use similar technologies and techniques throughout the day to evidence how simple and effective the use of m-learning can be.

Ron Mitchell

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Links to Connected Education site and resources

Ron — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:30:34 +0000

Home page: http://www.connectededucation.com

YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/connectededucation

Case Studies: http://www.connectededucation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=148&Itemid=42

St Hellens case study: http://www.connectededucation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164&Itemid=134

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PSP in Education video

Ron — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:26:22 +0000

Mainly has a schools focus but nice video clip summarising the place and use of PSP in education…

http://uk.playstation.com/psp/news/articles/detail/item121689/

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PSP user manual

Ron — Wed, 19 May 2010 10:06:26 +0000

here’s a link to the PSP user manual

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/psp/current/index.html

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Why use Posterous for this

Ron — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:49:14 +0000

Typing url’s on a psp is a bit of a pain and so it’s useful to have a quick way of sharing existing and new links with a group and even easier if you can do so by email!

So I’ve set-up this additional posterous site for when I’m delivering training to share links to view on the psp and/or to share links to psp related tools and resources to view on a PC.

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Group at West Thames College

Ron — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:45:21 +0000

Sent from my iPhone

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ipadio: Ron’s phonecasts via iPadio – 8th phonecast

Ron — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:44:21 +0000

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email to WP blog test

Ron — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:02:37 +0000

This is just a test

ipadio: Ron’s phonecasts via iPadio – 6th phonecast

Ron — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:59:06 +0000

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ipadio: Ipadio Demo Ealing Hammersmith And West London

Ron — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:56:54 +0000

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ipadio: Ipadio Demo To West Thames

Ron — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:48:41 +0000

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Fantastic keynote from Handheld Learning 09 – Zenna Atkins

Ron — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:06:27 +0000

This was a fantatisic and thought provoking keynote from Zenna Atkins Chair of Ofsted at Handheld Learning 2009.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0
Chair of Ofsted, Zenna Atkins, provides opening address at Handheld Learning 2009, London. www.handheldlearning.org www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com

Can we still use Gabcast for free?

Ron — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:34:12 +0000

There’s been some interesting discussion about this recently and after a test or two I’m still not sure!

Dave has blogged about this here: http://dsugden.posterous.com/gabcast and there’s been various discussions on Jaiku and by email. Dave’s post included details of the SipBroker number so I just tested that on a gabcast channel I set up previously and initially for a session I delivered to a PGCE group. I hadn’t used that for a while and so logged in and noticed my accounted details showing 5 minutes remaining. So I concluded that even if I connected for free via a SibBroker number that my remain minutes would reduce by the length of the recording. The reason I’m now not sure about all this is that so far the minutes haven’t reduced!

Here’s my test via the Birmingham SipBroker number:

Gabcast! PGCE #27

and here’s the full player for this PGCE channel:

I guess I’ll also have to check my next mobile bill to see if the SipBroker number actually cost anything!

THC & Newham Staff at MoLeNET development session

Ron — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:50:56 +0000

This was the first session looking at the MDA Compact 4 and how it might be put to good use.

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Post with image attached from htc touch diamond

Ron — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:57:00 +0000

Process here is to select a picture select send by email and then add relevant text to email and of course send to posterous

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1st day with the htc diamond

Ron — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:22:34 +0000

This is a test with this t-mobile device and hopefully will include some attachments. Had some problems setting up the mail account but seems fine now

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Info for those with Teacher access to the molenet moodle:

Ron — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:58:59 +0000

Hi all

Temi recently had some problems hiding items on the molenet moodle and I’ve been investigating the cause/solution which is proving a bit tricky. It seems if we try to hide, move or edit an item via the little editing icons alongside each item we get a blank screen rather than the editing options or the item being moved. I’ve tracked this down to part of the query string causing the problem e.g. at the end of the url you will see &sr=xy where xy equals a number representing the current topic number. If you remove that end part of the string e.g. &sesskey=aLrm8dUXJG&sr=10 the bit in red here and hit return the edit will work.

However this is obviously not right and I shall investigate further and report back asap.

From some tests I’ve just done the other solution is to enable Ajax on the site and then for you to update your profile to enable this too. This does allow much more efficient organisation of content and blocks but in previous versions of moodle was a little buggy. From my current tests it does seem the best option at the moment until I can get to the bottom of the problem with the normal method of editing so here’s where to go in your profile to switch this on:

Once you’ve selected [Yes: use advanced web features] click the button to Update Profile. Now when you turn editing on in a course you’ll see little crosses with arrow heads alongside items which you can click and drag to move the item. (see below) You can also click and drag on blocks and topics to move them around so it’s much more efficient to organise things.

Please let me know if this causes you any problems or indeed if you know anything about the cause/solution to the &sr= problem.

UPDATE: How wrong was I about all this! After researching I discovered the cause of the problem was that the site had actually been hacked like many others across the world. It was a long process to get it all sorted and anyone thinking they may have the same issue should read all the info on moodle.org http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=111710

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Another posterous test

Ron — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 22:42:29 +0000

So this time the test is sending a message and photo from an iPod touch which would obviously work from an iPhone too. In this case I selected a photo, press and hold to see options, select send by email, then add the relevant text above and below the image.

So the picture in this case isn’t relevant it’s just the view of a bay in Mallorca I took on holiday a couple of years ago.

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blogging via email to Posterous.com

Ron — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:40:38 +0000

I’m just carrying out a few tests with posterous to see if it will work as a solution for some of the molenet2 activities at THC.

As a test I’m sending this via email and will copy and paste a screenshot from the site below:

The screenshot should appear above followed by this text. In addition the post should appear on my wordpress based blog automatically.

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BlogDesk

Ron — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:07:33 +0000

This is just a test post using

This is a free Windows based RPC tool for WordPress and other blogs. So far it looks like a really useful and fast way of posting including uploading images complete with alt tags and links etc

Using WordPress with an iPod Touch (or iPhone)

Ron — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:41:14 +0000

WordPress App

The plugins and apps for using WordPress with the iPod Touch (and iPhone) seem really great. The first thing I tried was the free WordPress app which seems to work really well including the option to include and upload photos.

iPod Touch screen showing WordPress App

The screenshot below shows the write screen.
There are limited options but anything more complicated would probably be best done on a larger screen device.:

iPod Touch WordPress App showing write screen

WordPress Theme
Having installed the WP iPod Touch plugin I have to say it seems to work brilliantly. The 1st screenshot below shows the standard blog postings with links to search and also a link to the menu.

WordPress iPod Theme showing postings

This is the menu view showing the icons I chose in the plugin configuration. There’s also a link in the footer to switch to view the site via the normal theme and back again. Although my normal theme seems ok on the Touch this optimised theme does work much better. Thumbs up to the developers for a great job!

WordPress iPod Theme showing menu

Taking screenshots on iPhone and iPod Touch

Ron — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:18:16 +0000

I was looking for a way to capture screenshots on my iPod touch and started searching online for a solution. I was assuming that I needed to download an application of some sort but then I found a video tutorial on technorati showing how easy it is using the latest iPod Touch software. Basically it’s get to the screen you want to capture, hold in the menu button then quickly press the on/off button and that’s it! The screen goes white momentarily and the image gets stored in a saved images directory in the main images directory. The clips below shows this in action.

There’s some example screen shots in my posting about the iPod Touch WP theme and App.

My first post on my new site/blog

Ron — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:37:41 +0000

Lake Louise Canada

so this is just a test post, a test of the categories I’ve just added and a test of uploading an image via my iPod Touch.

The image was a quick pic I took a couple of years ago of Lake Louise on a tour of the Canadia Rockies.