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Consumers dictate device usage, not IT
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- Raiphin
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In recent years, we have seen a significant role reversal of who dictates mobile and computing devices usage in the work place. The consumer
…more »In recent years, we have seen a significant role reversal of who dictates mobile and computing devices usage in the work place. The consumer now dictates which devices should be used and IT is now one step behind playing catch up. This is definitely the trend and IT will remain the follower as long a devices continue to change as frequent as they do and vendors meets the security standards (encryption, password protect, etc) companies want to enforce. Mobile devices will eventually replace laptops and desktops but that is still a long way off. Cloud computing is making this gap smaller and small ever year. The more an app is web friendly, or is able to be “thin”, the need for a laptop or desktop becomes less of a necessity.
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Mobile learning can transform what happens *in* the classroom.
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- Derek Bruff
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- Vanderbilt University
I hear a lot about the potential for mobile learning *outside* the classroom, from mobile content delivery to place-based computing. However,
…more »I hear a lot about the potential for mobile learning *outside* the classroom, from mobile content delivery to place-based computing. However, many of our students walk into our classrooms with more computing power in their pocket than the computers that sent astronauts to the Moon. Let’s leverage that!
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Mobile devices should not be seen as PC/laptop alternatives
Mobile devices should be adapted to those learning experiences for which they are appropriate and offer new and greater possibilities, and not
…more »Mobile devices should be adapted to those learning experiences for which they are appropriate and offer new and greater possibilities, and not adopted simply because they are popular among target learners. Where PCs/laptops offer greater learning opportunities ways must be found to make PCs/laptops available and accessible.
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Custom apps will open up new creative vistas for pedagogy
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- Earlham College
As pad type devices proliferate and become more capable and cheaper there will be greater incentive to create apps which are customized to specialized
…more »As pad type devices proliferate and become more capable and cheaper there will be greater incentive to create apps which are customized to specialized pedagogic outcomes. The scope for new creative ideas is greatly enhanced and we can look forward to a torrent of exciting custom built apps sharply focussed on learning outcomes.
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Get rid of the walls around your enterprise data
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- Ryan Vis
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- University of Michigan
Enterprise data is one of the most valuable assets an institution has. Making this information available to the entire institution and beyond
…more »Enterprise data is one of the most valuable assets an institution has. Making this information available to the entire institution and beyond only increases its value. Providing secure and public data services is a foundational step to building a mobile and innovative institution. Planning for providing these services extends to project planning and RFPs and should be part of the IT culture.
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Mobile Learning & Constructing Knowledge
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- G. Andrew Page
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- Alaska Pacific University
When you look at the BIGGER picture you see a group of early adopters using mobile technology as a device to learn FROM. PC’s were once used
…more »When you look at the BIGGER picture you see a group of early adopters using mobile technology as a device to learn FROM. PC’s were once used primarily as tutors. What ways can mobile technologies be used to CONSTRUCT knowledge and promote “deep” learning and not simply “just in time” information. How many learners actually construct their understanding?
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An Institutions Mobile Strategy Starts w/ Mobile Web
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- Dave Olsen
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- West Virginia University
As institutions start dipping their toes in the water of mobile and solutions are evaluated most institutions should start with mobile web. It
…more »As institutions start dipping their toes in the water of mobile and solutions are evaluated most institutions should start with mobile web. It leverages existing expertise while allowing delivery to most every device users are using. Native (iOS, Android, WebOS, Windows Phone 7) are too time (& money?) consuming to pursue out of the gate.
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Mobile computing will disenfranchise some users.
The digital divide will see a resurgence in the context of mobile computing, especially at associate’s colleges.
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Growth of cloud-based mobile will help narrow the digital divide
The growth of cloud-based mobile tools will help narrow the digital divide.
(The digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective
…more »The growth of cloud-based mobile tools will help narrow the digital divide.
(The digital divide refers to the gap between people with effective access to digital and information technology and those with very limited or no access at all.)
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Youth Culture & Mobile Technology Trends
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- Roxann Riskin
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- www.fairfield.edu/library
How does our youth culture in high ed drive the choice & engagement of all mobile technologies on and off campus? Can high ed benefit from “watching”
…more »How does our youth culture in high ed drive the choice & engagement of all mobile technologies on and off campus? Can high ed benefit from “watching” how student use their choice devices? My library- tech students assistants are participating in specific researched apps that have been on the “market” for about a year or 2; we are garnering data using the mobile devices. Devices serve us as conduits toward a paperless lib tech support service environment that allows for archiving data which was never possible before.
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Proliferation of e-textbooks will drive mobile device adoption
The proliferation of the electronic textbook will drive the widespread adoption of highly mobile devices.
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Open Source Frameworks Provide Realistic Path for Mobile Dev
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- Dave Olsen
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- http://dmolsen.com
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- West Virginia University
Their is a proliferation of open source frameworks that provide simple mobile services like a campus map, calendar, directory, and emergency
…more »Their is a proliferation of open source frameworks that provide simple mobile services like a campus map, calendar, directory, and emergency information. While more work than hiring a vendor they help provide an institution the necessary experience to help evaluate where their mobile strategy should go while being able to leverage other institutions work. Open source frameworks include:
Kurogo – http://modolabs.com/framework.php
Molly – http://mollyproject.org/
UCLA mobile web framework – http://mwf.ucla.edu/welcome
Mobile Web OSP – http://mobilewebosp.pbworks.com/
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HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript are an Excellent Starting Point
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- Doug Mills
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- http://butane.chem.illinois.edu/dmills/mweducause2011/
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- Dept. of Chemistry, University of Illinois
We’ve been exploring HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript as the foundational technologies enabling both Desktop/Laptop- and Mobile/Tablet-based online
…more »We’ve been exploring HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript as the foundational technologies enabling both Desktop/Laptop- and Mobile/Tablet-based online learning. It’s not perfect, but we’ve been pleased with the results so far and the way things are developing. Here are some examples of the work we’re doing and resources I’ve found helpful (site created to support a Poster Session on this at Midwest Educause)
http://butane.chem.illinois.edu/dmills/mweducause2011/
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Mobile Education will forever change informal learning environs.
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst
Blending mobile learning with informal learning environments has the potential to increase access to education for students of all ages. Schools
…more »Blending mobile learning with informal learning environments has the potential to increase access to education for students of all ages. Schools can no longer be responsible for addressing all of the academic and educational needs of students. Mobile learning can increase the power and effectiveness of informal learning environments such as after-school programs for youth and community programs for adults.
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QR codes should link to mobile friendly web pages.
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Agree: Yes
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Organizing and presenting are more important than implementing
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- Chris Warren
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- http://ficial.wordpress.com/
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- Williams College
There are many viable options for implementing any given mobile service – ranging from native apps coded from scratch to web apps delivered by
…more »There are many viable options for implementing any given mobile service – ranging from native apps coded from scratch to web apps delivered by a 3rd party. The biggest challenge schools will face is not how to create them, but how to organize and present them in ways that will be useful to their intended audiences once an institution has dozens of even hundreds mobile services available.
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Transliteracy
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- Kathleen Johnson
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- http://www.transliteracy.com
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- Seattle Academy
Mastering mobile applications can be considered one more step on the road to acquiring transliteracy. Transliteracy is the ability to read,
…more »Mastering mobile applications can be considered one more step on the road to acquiring transliteracy. Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media.
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Mobile Computing and Open Education are limited by accessibility
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- Larry Lugo
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- www.fruticultura.net
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- Aggregated Professor/Universidad del Zulia
“I’m invincible: I use a smartphone, laptop and iPad, and frequently all of them simultaneously”, somebody said at Tweeter. While in Latin America,
…more »“I’m invincible: I use a smartphone, laptop and iPad, and frequently all of them simultaneously”, somebody said at Tweeter. While in Latin America, most of people use a cheap mobile phone. Is Mobile computing for everybody or just for a few privileged? Does it help to bridge or widen the technology gap and strengthen a worldwide Open Education system?
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Students view some technology as social, not educational
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- University of Utah
Students seem to view some technologies as part of their social life, not part of their educational experience. They don’t necessarily want
…more »Students seem to view some technologies as part of their social life, not part of their educational experience. They don’t necessarily want professors or homework to intrude in their social spaces. For instance, Facebook has recently implemented a way to segregate personal friends from work-related “friends”. Students may reject educational mobile apps that intrude on private space.
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Security exposures will hurt mobile progress.
The security exposures in mobile devices will soon lead to a general backlash against mobile computing.
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Sharing University of Mi Mobile Computing Site
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- Mary Gohsman
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- http://mobileapps.its.umich.edu/
- Affiliation/Institution:
- University of Michigan
The UM ITS mobile application team has launched the Michigan app and a new U-M website for mobile computing. Michigan – a free iPhone app provides
…more »The UM ITS mobile application team has launched the Michigan app and a new U-M website for mobile computing. Michigan – a free iPhone app provides news, Magic Bus information, an interactive campus map, dining hall menus, the U-M directory, iTunesU and more. The U-M Mobile Center is a new site where the campus community can access resources to build apps and collaborate with each other. The U-M Mobile Center will also have Michigan-related apps available for download.
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Oregon State University Libraries’ Mobile site
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- Laurie Bridges
- Website URL:
- http://m.library.oregonstate.edu/
- Affiliation/Institution:
- Oregon State University
We began development of our mobile site in December of 2008. Our site now includes a searchable catalog, historic walking tour of campus, and
…more »We began development of our mobile site in December of 2008. Our site now includes a searchable catalog, historic walking tour of campus, and a “Book Genie”.
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The Evolution of Mobile Computing for Learning
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- Chris Dede
- Website URL:
- http://isites.harvard.edu/chris_dede
- Affiliation/Institution:
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
A research paper based on the Wireless EdTech 2010 conference is available at http://wirelessedtech.com/. This outlines both the opportunities
…more »A research paper based on the Wireless EdTech 2010 conference is available at http://wirelessedtech.com/. This outlines both the opportunities and the challenges in the evolution of mobile computing for learning. Happy to receive feedback on the report.
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Mobile App for posting and reading course syllabi
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- Anne-Marie Armstrong
- Website URL:
- http://5ddigitalcomm.wordpress.com/
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- Colorado Technical University
This app should be templated like some of the ones on buzzcut.com so that all instructors would be able to upload their content. It would keep
…more »This app should be templated like some of the ones on buzzcut.com so that all instructors would be able to upload their content. It would keep students organized and up-to-date with just-in-time information.
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WVU Mobile Web & iWVU
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- Dave Olsen
- Website URL:
- http://dmolsen.com
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- West Virginia University
At West Virginia University we used the original MIT mobile framework to build our mobile website (http://m.wvu.edu/). which we launched in August
…more »At West Virginia University we used the original MIT mobile framework to build our mobile website (http://m.wvu.edu/). which we launched in August 2009. Since then we’ve seen over 200% year-to-year growth in use of the site and expect even bigger numbers when the spring semester ends. We support simple central services like a campus map, calendar, directory, & emergency information. The core of the site has been open sourced as Mobile Web OSP (<a href="http://mobilewebosp.pbworks.com/).
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<a href="http://mobilewebosp.pbworks.com/).
At the same time a student developed an iPhone app called iWVU. We have since worked with the student to make sure that the content of the app meets our needs/requirements and it is entering it’s fourth version.
<a href="http://mobilewebosp.pbworks.com/).
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ultraRUNNING Online – The LAST Article You’ll Ever Need to Read About What to Eat During an Ultramarathon
The LAST Article You’ll Ever Need to Read About What to Eat During an Ultramarathon
by Sunny Blende, MS, Sports Nutritionist
If you have been reading any newsstand magazines for the past few decades, you have probably watched with amusement the trail of articles on the “Last Diet You Will Ever Need”. These began with a total war on FATS and a brand new aisle in our grocery stores of fat-free products, including the infamous Snack-Well Fat Free cookies which satisfied no one in the satiety OR nutrient departments. That was followed by a mine field of articles on CARBOHYDRATES versus PROTEINS, which led to the further debunking of ANY carbohydrates, and in more recent times, ANY sugars (added or otherwise), except for the possible exception of “natural, unrefined cane juice” aka “sugar” with a better-marketingname. Sugar-in-the-Raw, as the slogan goes … which leads to “cavities-in-the-raw”, “diabetesin- the-raw” and “obesity-in-the-raw – the natural way” (my quotes). It would seem, if this progression continues, that PROTEIN will be the next enemy-of-the-state and we will soon have a real dilemma, or maybe a solution in disguise. Since only the macronutrients of fats, carbohydrates and protein contain calories, if we eliminate all three, we would at least begin to solve the obesity problem in the United States, albeit through slow starvation.
What does all this have to do with ultrarunning and more specifically, you, the ultrarunner? Well, have you ever wondered why each of our sports nutrition products claims to be the “best” and the “last thing you will need for your PR”, and that each of these products is backed by “scientific studies”? How can all these scientific studies prove something very different for each product? The bottom line falls into two categories.
First, the human body is very adaptable. It is possible to run a 100-mile race on any food including ice cream (let those support crews carry the dry ice), raw eggs (bring the chickens along to the aid stations), any kind of food in any form of processing, and yes – even alcohol. If we include the Ancient Olympics as well as the modern ones, there have been many more athletes who used alcohol to enhance athletic performance than those that have abstained. Ancient Greek athletes drank wine or brandy before competition and in somewhat more modern times, the marathon runners (Paris, 1900 and London, 1908) drank cognac to enhance their performance. Race Directors, make a note to call your local winery for sponsorship. In all seriousness, if the human body needs calories for perceived survival, as in flight-or-fight (running), we have many systems that can convert whatever we have on board to energy. Some forms of calories may work, or rather convert to energy, more easily than others but then again, the human body has adapted for thousands of years, day in and day out, in a struggle for continuous survival and a mere 100 miles has not been the ultimate challenge.
Second, scientific studies can be designed, by chance or by design, to prove almost anything. For instance in a 10K race, carbohydrates – or nothing – may be all you need to fuel your muscles. But in ultra-distance events, your needs may change during a race and your individual needs may differ from that of your fellow runners. You may be out on the course for 24 hours, or more, or much more, and while carbs may be fine at first, protein may be better later on. If you become discouraged or depressed, a good snack of fat may be just the satiating tidbit you need to make it to the finish line. Depending on how a study is designed, or when the results are gathered, or how objective or subjective the researcher is in collecting the data, the results can be very skewed. And your individual interpretation of what you drank or ate and how that affected you may not always be the most scientific analysis. Take the following example.
You head out on a new trail on a colder-than-usual day after a two-day lay off. You went out the night before with friends to that new fish restaurant and you are feeling guilty that you ate the whole meal. You have been trying to cut down on calories lately because you haven’t run as consistently as you wished – even though you have been cramming in the miles where you can. You started a bit late, after having a bowl of oatmeal with your significant “we-never-eat-breakfast- together-anymore-because-you-are-always- out-running” other. About 40 minutes into the run, you try the new Product X that your buddy gave you; he said it really changed his running. Ten more minutes on the trail and you feel great. Wow…you see what your friend means about Product X and you plan to go out and buy a case later today.
ANALYSIS No. 1
Product X is the ultimate sports nutrition food and it definitely made a difference in your run. Besides, there are scientific studies that prove it.ANALYSIS No. 2
Some of us might have looked back a bit further and thought…I wonder if the oatmeal might have been part of the great run I had, too. Those who may have been injured in the past might also have wondered about the new, softer trail. Those who have bonked due to the heat or dehydration may have wondered about the effect of the cooler-than-normal temperatures. A few of us may have considered the dinner we had the night before and wondered if the fish helped…or just the additional calories. A very few of us might have surmised that we needed the additional break and rest. In other words, we are usually not very scientific in our observations. And we didn’t even touch on the placebo effect.SO, DO WE NEED CARBOHYDRATES, FATS OR PROTEIN TO FUEL OUR ULTRA?
All three of the macronutrients can be used for energy production during an ultra. Some of the better choices are influenced by intensity and duration of the exercise. If you go slowly enough, for long enough, you can use anything. Put it in another context, if you run out of the muscles’ preferred fuel, you can use anything to keep going – you just may have to slow down (decrease intensity), or, if you don’t slow down, you may bonk and stop all together (modify duration). There are many factors that influence these processes; training also modifies an individual’s adaptations to these factors therefore assuring that, (1) what works this year, may not work next year, and (2) I will continue to have a job as a nutrition columnist trying to sort it all out for you. To further complicate matters, the majority of studies result in respondents being plotted along a “bell curve”, where most of the subjects had a similar reaction, but a few under- performed and a few more over-performed. If you wind up in one of these categories, the study really doesn’t apply to you, at least not for performance enhancement.If you read Christopher McDougall’s book Born to Run, you may have read my definition of an ultramarathon, “An eating and drinking contest, with a little exercise and scenery thrown in.” I think we probably were born to run but I know we were born to eat. So, my “expert opinion” is that it would be a good idea to try many different foods and sports nutrition products in training, to see what works for you and what makes you feel fueled-on-the-trail. I would advise you to read my articles, read other scientific articles, try different combinations during your long runs and tune-up races and read labels.
Remember how adaptable the human body is and remember the bell curve: the scientifically perfect product for someone else, may – or may not – be the best for you. And we STILL haven’t touched on the placebo effect.
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