Mobile Learning Apps
Distance Learning [email protected]
(860) 343 – 5756 Founders 131/131A
Middlesex Community College http://mxcc.edu/ett
Mobile Learning Basics
• Basics in Mobile Devices
– Settings
– Web Browser
– Apps.
• Blackboard Mobile Learn
• Productivity Apps: EverNote, DocScan
Mobile Devices - Settings
• Access MxCC Wi-Fi
– Wi-Fi – On
– Choose MxCC-Public
– Enter your ID and password.
• Cellular – save power
– Turn off the apps that you do not need when using cellular data – International Travel – turn off Data Roaming
• Data Roaming - Off
• Settings> Airplane Mode –on
• Text Size: Settings>General>Text Size
Emails in Mobile Devices
• Email (iPhone/iPad)
– Add An Email Account
• Settings>Mail, Contacts,
Calendars>Add Account (Fetch New Data – Off)>Choose an application:
Exchange –College email, Yahoo, Gmail, or AOL> Name, Email, Password,
Description. Click on Next.> Save – leave all choices on –Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders, and Notes.
– College Email
• Type of email, Exchange
• Server, www.mail.commnet.edu
Emails in Mobile Devices
• Check Emails
– Click on the Mail icon. Click on the email name. You will see emails in Inbox.
• Read an email.
– Click on the Subject line of the email message.
• Reply, Forward, Print, Move
to a Folder.
• Delete
• Flag
Web Browsing in Mobile Devices
• Web Browser –
Safari in iPhone/iPad, Google Chrome in Android phone/tablet– Type a search term and click on a result link.
– Type URL
– Operational Icons:
Commonly Used Apps
• Weather
• Map
• News: NPR, NYtimes
• Camera, photos and videos
• Calendar
• Youtube
News Apps
• Flipboard – combination of news and social
media in a magazine layout
– Setup, choose the apps you would like to show in
Flipboard. Link with your Facebook.
• SkyGrid – news of your choice
Apps - Blackboard
• Go to App Store (iOS) or Play Store (Android)
• In an iOS device, search for “Blackboard”, click on “Free” and then “Install”. You will be prompted to create an Apple ID first time to download an app. Sign up with Apple.com with an
username and password. Once the sign up is completed, the app will be downloaded.
• Open the Blackboard app.
• Search for “Connecticut Community Colleges”.
Use this page to log on.
Apps - Blackboard
• Choose the course you would like to visit.
• Choose a link in the “Course Menu” to explore.
• The Blackboard Mobile is not fully compatible with
mobile devices. Some tools will not work appropriately
such as Grade Center.
• Faculty
– Use mobile devices to check messages, post announcements, etc.
– Difficult to post files, grading, building tests, etc.
• Students
Productivity Apps
• Apple Notes, note taking with pictures and files attached.
• Evernotes, all-in-one, taking notes, clipping web information, and storing documents (file, audio, video).
• CamScanner, scan, store, and share documents
• DocScan, scan, store, and share documents as well as annotate .pdf files. • Cloud Storage
– Dropbox, 2G, not quite secured
– iClouds, 5 G, more secured with encryption – Box.net, 10 G free, secured with encryption – Google Drive, 5 G
– Skydrive/OneDrive, 5 G • Voice Recording
– Voice Memo in iPhone
Presentation Apps
• Slideidea
– Link with Facebook/Google+ – Import .pdf or .ppt files. – Create presentations
– Interact with audience: Join, Create a Poll – Record and publish
• Prezi
– A presentation tool (non-linear)
– Link with your Facebook or Linkedin account – Create a presentation using a template
– Create Frames with text, images, photos, and videos – Import from a .PPT file and edit it in Prezi layout.
• BContext
– Voice over slides
– Import a .ppt file from Google Drive or Dropbox and record voice over the slide. – Free service – post your slide to Facebook/Tweeter/Linkedin.
– Create your slide file to .mp4 - paid
• Slideshark
– Present .ppt, pdf, html files.
Collaborative Work Apps
• WeMap:
– create a concept map
• Create a class and a session. • Search for the session and join.
• Participants contribute to the concept map.
• WeKWL:
– Create a class and a session
– learning a concept by answering the questions
• K, What do we think we know • W, What do we want to know • L, What are we learning