Hello Everyone.
Mobile learning for Geography 2290 – Advanced Geomorphology – has taken a two part approach. Early in the year – Sept – , the second lab assignment for the course was a three week assignment involving two field trips, collection of stream flow data, lab analysis of two river deposits and final write up of the material. The idea for mobile learning was that information collected in the field would be shared amongst members of the class so that everyone could a) have the information, b) analyse and interpret it and c) present it in a clear concise manner. I should note that half the students went on one field trip and half on the other. I deliberately posted some of the material detailing lab techniques used to analyse the data on the class blog and only on the class blog as a way to get the students to log on and get use to this particular format. The results were not very encouraging. Only a few students – 3 out of 27 – actually logged on. Only two made a comment. It seems that those who did log on simply downloaded the information and brought it to class for themselves and the other students. Any questions pertaining to this lab assignment were simply raised in class in person. So, mobile learning was not a huge hit.