Hosting the RSC South West Specialist College Forum

Hosting the RSC South West Specialist College Forum tomorrow.

Where I will be delivering a presentation on our involvement in the MoleNET project and sharing our evaluations on the mobile devices we have bought so far.

It will be interesting and useful to hear other specialist colleges’ opinions on the capabilities of the devices and learning resources so far created.

Really Useful Research and Evaluation Event

I attended a really useful Research and Evaluation event on Friday. Loads of sharing good practice took place and I managed to get my hands on an Asus Eee Pc (If only for a brief time). I can now appreciate why it seems to be out of stock everywhere. It really is a snazzy little tool.

I’m planning that this will be the device that our IT students may be able to use. So far the IT tutors have rejected the iTouch, PSP and mobile phones as the screens are too small to display the video tutorials we are in the process of creating.

We have ordered 2 of the 4Gb Asus devices, one to remain on Linux the other to have Windows and Microsoft Office 2007 installed on it.

Evaluating the Sums software using a PSP

Met with Gill, our Literacy and Numeracy Co-ordinator who has agreed to trial and evaluate the Sums software (available from http://www.sums.co.uk/handheld_pda_maths.htm )using a PSP to determine the suitability of the software and the mobile device for our students.

Really useful training day at E-Guides Plus event.

Really useful training day at E-Guides Plus event.

Have finally been able to create some resources for the mobile phones, using My Learning Author, thanks to the expertise of Nigel Davies.

Nokia N95 to be used to support Access to the Community Training (ACT)

Met with Bruce from our Occupational Therapy team, who is interested in using the maps facility of the N95 to aid students on his Access to the Community Training (ACT) program.