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About mobileDot
Starting on August 18th, 2008 and concluding at the end of the Fall 2008 semester, I will be on a sabbatical from the Maricopa Community College District working to research opportunities for mobile network connected devices to be used for student learning.
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Sabbatical Abstract
It is estimated that over 90% of community college students posses at least one mobile device. Since many of these devices contain computer and wireless network support, it seems very likely that these devices can assist faculty and students in teaching and learning by providing additional options. This purpose of this sabbatical is to do proof of concept tests on existing client / server system designs migrated to a mobile framework. In addition, an investigation will be done to determine where this technology has been successful in Higher Ed. and finally, the trends for mobile technology as it would pertain to a typical community college student.
Sabbatical Proposal Sabbatical 30 Day Report
Final Sabbatical Report (new)
mobileDot Deliverables
Projects:
Apps:
MLEX
MLEX TXT Convert
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(1) Thin Client (Generation One) - One page fits all - Using one html file on multiple devices.
(2) Thin (and easy) Client (Generation Two) - A standard approach with shorter user learning curve.
(3) Thin Client Tool - MLX1 - Taking what has been learned in the first two phases of thin client research and putting it into action.
(4) MLEX beta 1.0 The MLEX beta release of the mobile page tool that lets the web designer create one page that is viewable from a PC or a mobile device. No distortion, No shrinkage... Sample Pages
(5) MLEX beta 1.1 Updates with conversion tools for documents to be imported into MLEX (coming soon)
(6) MLEX Sample Pages Sample of pages put together by MLEX for the classroom. This page is viewable on a mobile device.
(7) Faculty Mobile Site See how I am using MLEX in my Spring 2009 classes!
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Apps:
pocketCourse
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(1) Thick Client pocketCourse(.net) Course delivery from a PDA. pocketCourse is a content management application written so that an entire course (lectures and assignments) could be contained within a PDA not connected to a network (i.e. Internet)
(2) Thick Client pocketCourse beta(.net) Redesign and implementation of pocketCourses' with an assessment and note taking feature added. New program has a new user interface which is more graphical and less text based. This project uses MLEX Beta 1.0 to build html content web pages used for syllabus, lectures, assignments and assessments.
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Apps:
BT Kiosk / Client
BT Clicker
| (1) Bluetooth Server Kiosk with BT Clicker Client. This program allows a Microsoft mobile device to communicate with a BT Server and exchange information. The central application used for testing was a clicker application where the student used a BlueTooth connected client to communicate with an Instructor supervised server to collect class contenet suveys.
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Apps: None
| (1) SMS (Simple Message Service) Server - Similar to the BlueTooth Server except this project would use SMS (Simple Message Systeem) text messaging to communicate to an Instructor led Server.
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Gary Marrer
Glendale Community College
gary.marrer@gcmail.maricopa.edu
gmarrer@gmail.com (preferred)
G. Marrer CV
This site - How it was authored...
This site has been created using Google Sites. I have tried to use as much of what Google has to offer in web page development. For educators, free resources with this feature level are hard to come by. If you have any questions about the Google tools I used for this site, please let me know via an email.
This site is a Google Site
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My unSmart Verizon Motorola cell phone displaying a page I created with MLEX. Click on image to show larger picture.
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Demo: One Web Page - Works for both PC or Mobile Device
mlx Tool creates one html web page that will work for any device Last Updates 11/15/2008
View Page on PC View Page on Cell Phone EmulatorStudents can view same web page from same html file on both PC or mobile device (with Internet)
Site Resources
Recent Announcements
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Final Sabbatical Report posted
My final Sabbatical Report for my mobile learning sabbatical has been posted on the home page.
Posted Feb 10, 2009 7:04 AM by Gary Marrer
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Mobile Faculty Web Site
As classes have now started, I will be filling in my faculty mobile page http://web.gccaz.edu/~gmarrer/mobile
Posted Jan 25, 2009 7:18 PM by Gary Marrer
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MLEX Examples
Check out this link for MLEX examples I have created.
Posted Jan 4, 2009 7:00 PM by Gary Marrer
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Ning Network Opened for MobileDOT
After looking over Ning, I have decided it may be a more appropriate place for building discussion on mobile learning.
Posted Dec 29, 2008 11:17 AM by Gary Marrer
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New Section on Home Page
I have added a new section my web page called mobile examples. Some of the links were suggested to my as a by-product of my LinkedIn Discussion post
Posted Dec 15, 2008 4:40 PM by Gary Marrer
Important Articles and Links
mobileDot Blog mobileDot.blogspot.com
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