Device Testing

Okay, so today went very well, it was also very exciting! (need to get out more!)

Giles and I took 10 of the UMPC's from the lapsafe and took them to the main plumbing workshop. Our aim was to test the devices on the Wifi network with the students. Martyn McDonnell provided the 10 learners (Thanks Martyn) who powered up the devices and then logged on with their own individual Moulton Learner Accounts. They then fired up the internet explorer and accessed MOODLE. The whole test was very positive, the learners loved the devices and seemed really engaged, as did small crowd of staff that formed around the test.

Thanks to Giles and his team for getting us this far. Thanks also to Paul Mawson who drove the College camera capturing the process.

Post Script

Just been discussing with Giles and we should have brought the camcorder and voice recorder also as the students made some really encouraging comments. Will do so the next time!

Snow stops play!

Big shame but the College has obviously been hit, like everybody else, with this bad weather. The impact on the project is that the first podcast was postponed and the mobile device trial was also missed. Rescheduling today for next week.

Device & Network Testing

Very pleased to say we are now in a position to begin live testing the wireless network married to the UMPC's. We have a class of students ready to use the UMPC's on Friday morning (6/1/09- 09:00). They will be using the devices, logging on with their personal student account (thats their Moulton account - user name is the learner ID No)accross the new wireless network. This, if successful, will launch both the devices and the network for use with the project. Very pleased to have reached this point.

This session will also provide us with a very good picture of what the learners require in the way of device training.

Note to self - must add staff development list to agenda for forthcoming management group meeting in order to book John Whalleys.

Action Research Meeting

Whilst I am not a full part of the day but rather Phil is, the meeting with Carol is happening in the Ecton Office, I am still finding that being a 3rd party to the discussion is very useful and extremely enlightening.

Equipment

Preparing today for the first podcast recording we have taking place this coming Thursday morning. Got to say I am very excited at the prospect!

Also the RF ID animal tagging is looking like its going to be something quite special with regards to mobile learning. The equipment to tag the sheep is here and we will be using the eee pc's to help us to do this. My plan get the learners involved in tagging the sheep to use the new video equipment as a form of evidence capture. The lecturer concerned is coming to see me today to discuss how best to go about this.