Another First and once again gobsmacked - by the OU interface and the performance of the iPhone
Tuesday, 6 Sept 2011, 21:02
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Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 7 Sept 2011, 11:16
My first smartphone is an iPhone.
As I am writing about mobile learning for an EMA I needed one didn't I ? In any case it's my birthday in three weeks time. Without the kit to test it for yourself you remain a second hand learner.
I am gobsmacked at how dinky it all is after the iPad.
Some Apps work even better in miniature, for example the spaced learning aide-memoir site Spaced-Ed saw me signing up for further micro-courses.
I am into Linkedin, Wordpress and Twitter too; each of these offers a simplified variation of its larger sibling.
This tiny keyboard defies its ability to type at all defies logic, I feel as if I am trying to play a harp wearing gardening gloves.
In relation to where else I can take all that this device offers my immediate thought was confined to a coffin, or under the bed if you'd prefer or perhaps on a bunk in a small yacht.
Unlike the iPad I am could take this for a run or under-dressed spring skiing.
Getting all my Kindle books here with the reader could allow me to cycle the South Downs while listening to a book, not that the Kindle is so hard to have in a jacket pocket.
Much more to discover; my 45 words per minute typing down to 60 characters a minute may render my stream of consciousness less steam and more substance.
On Verra
P.S. I need them for nothing else but had to resort to reading glasses; I dare say there will be yet smaller devices such as a voice-activated iBadge?
P.P.S. No spellchecker and it irritates me that its is automatically miscorrected to it's.
P.P.S. 12 hours later I find myself at a desk with a large screen editing this (spacing mostly), the iPad on my knees like a figure from a book I have reviewed her ... but the figure is an image in Picasa Web. I started on the iPhone (using it as an iTouch at the moment, wifi only) running through 8 items: colleague blog update, Linkedin Group updates, shared doc on Social Media 'Must do' list with links, and while the kettle boiled a few stabs at basic French from an App which I'll ditch as it is too basic and the next step requires payment).
ON REFLECTION
Not only managing the distractions, but the ease at which the Apps can extract payment through the likes of iTunes.
iTunes U is another matter -free learning, on the go wherever you go (and even when you need to go).
Another First and once again gobsmacked - by the OU interface and the performance of the iPhone
My first smartphone is an iPhone.
As I am writing about mobile learning for an EMA I needed one didn't I ? In any case it's my birthday in three weeks time. Without the kit to test it for yourself you remain a second hand learner.
I am gobsmacked at how dinky it all is after the iPad.
Some Apps work even better in miniature, for example the spaced learning aide-memoir site Spaced-Ed saw me signing up for further micro-courses.
I am into Linkedin, Wordpress and Twitter too; each of these offers a simplified variation of its larger sibling.
This tiny keyboard defies its ability to type at all defies logic, I feel as if I am trying to play a harp wearing gardening gloves.
In relation to where else I can take all that this device offers my immediate thought was confined to a coffin, or under the bed if you'd prefer or perhaps on a bunk in a small yacht.
Unlike the iPad I am could take this for a run or under-dressed spring skiing.
Getting all my Kindle books here with the reader could allow me to cycle the South Downs while listening to a book, not that the Kindle is so hard to have in a jacket pocket.
Much more to discover; my 45 words per minute typing down to 60 characters a minute may render my stream of consciousness less steam and more substance.
On Verra
P.S. I need them for nothing else but had to resort to reading glasses; I dare say there will be yet smaller devices such as a voice-activated iBadge?
P.P.S. No spellchecker and it irritates me that its is automatically miscorrected to it's.
P.P.S. 12 hours later I find myself at a desk with a large screen editing this (spacing mostly), the iPad on my knees like a figure from a book I have reviewed her ... but the figure is an image in Picasa Web. I started on the iPhone (using it as an iTouch at the moment, wifi only) running through 8 items: colleague blog update, Linkedin Group updates, shared doc on Social Media 'Must do' list with links, and while the kettle boiled a few stabs at basic French from an App which I'll ditch as it is too basic and the next step requires payment).
ON REFLECTION
Not only managing the distractions, but the ease at which the Apps can extract payment through the likes of iTunes.
iTunes U is another matter -free learning, on the go wherever you go (and even when you need to go).