Speaker bio's

Learning Technologies Coordinator

UNITEC

tcochrane@unitec.ac.nz

Mobilising learning-a primer for using wireless palm devices to facilitate a collaborative learning environment

An overview of the potential for establishing the use of Palm PDAs as core ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) within tertiary education courses. The potential of Palm devices integrated with a campus wireless network can facilitate the use of elearning tools to enhance tutor-student and student-student communication, collaboration, reflection and critique. Student productivity will be enhanced by the provision of a ubiquitous computing environment. The presentation explores Palm applications for: Email, instant messaging, RSS (Really Simple Syndication, or Rich Site Summary), blogs, access to courseware and discussion boards, student web homepages, wikis etc.

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Thom Cochrane joined the Learning Technologies team at Unitec in early 2004. He completed a Master of Computing degree in 2004 with a thesis in developing and evaluating multimedia learning objects using QuickTime. In 2005 he is beginning a PhD specializing in educational technology and mlearning.