Mobile Learning Teachback

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The past few weeks our ed tech class has been creating powerpoint presentations that teach a technology topic. The teachback that I created is about the future of mobile learning (also at Zoho). I honestly cannot say how much I learned about this topic because my knowledge before hand was extremely limited.My research just kept leading me to more and more about mobile technologies and their educational uses. You will probably find my presentation fairly elementary but I really had no idea that these are the possibilities that are out there right now and that they are realistic expectations.

In addition to learning about mobile learning I learned how to use a couple new websites for viewing powerpoint presentations. During my research I stumbled upon Zoho and found it extremely useful in preparing my powerpoint. During the day I get small bits of time that I can work on my research and even though I save all the sites to my del.icio.us account, once I finally made it home at night I would have to remember what I wanted to change or add to my powerpoint and then go to it again. Zoho is an online presentation creator (and much more!).I was able to work on and save my presentation anywhere and anytime. Just an FYI, you can invite people into a forum to chat while you present. Great resource!

The only problem that I had was when I uploaded most of the Powerpoint from my files to the website it changed the formatting a little- just enough to drive me crazy. So I had a choice to either redo the slides or go to SlideShare and upload for viewing. As you can see, I tried the easier of the two. I am glad that we had this project because I got experience the ease of both presentation sharing sites.

When you view my presentation you may wonder why I did not embed the video. Yes, it is easy to just follow the YouTube how to videos. My problem was that the video that I chose had a different URL code than most and I could not figure out how to tweak it and embed it.

As usual I should have been more organized when preparing. I need to figure out how to effectively use the internet resources available to me. I need to also find a way to show the variety of uses in a better way.

Overall I am extremely glad that I chose this topic to present because it has motivated me to try it out in the classroom. Lots of the mlearning sites offer help preparing grants and getting started implementing a mobile curriculum. From the research I found the mobile technologies improved on level learning only slightly. What was impressive is that it improved below level and at risk students significantly. With the diversity of our classrooms at an all time high mobile learning can help us individualize instruction and motivate the students to take control of their learning.