M-learning Guru Marcus Ragus paid us a visit in here at the Chamber on the 5 July!
Armed with all his gadgets and new flash technology, he showed a varity of ways these tools could be used in a training environment:

- it could record attendance
- could help with admin processes, such as recording when an assessment was received, who it was written by and which assessment task it is.

The options are endless!!!

We looked at PDA's, GPS's, and RFID tags, Marcus has sound knowledge in this area and will prove to bea vaulable resource for our project.

On Tursday 5th July we were lucky enough to have m-learning guru Marcus Ragus show us various m-learning resources and some of the technology we may be able to trial for our Learnscope Project. Marcus showed us a GPS program on his PDA and we were able to locate the position of satellites above the Chamber here in Darwin.

Other areas of interest that we were able to discuss with Marcus included the use of RFID tags (smart tags), ultra mobile PCs and barcoding. We are currently writing a report for our managers on the feasability of using these m-learning resources in our RTO environment.

M Learning

I attended a coarse yesterday that was about mobile learning. Danielle, Rea, Collette and myself attended this workshop.

Being my first coarse since becoming part of the team in the Chamber, I didn't have a clue what the guy was talking about! However, I lost interest in the discussion when he began talking about PowerPoint Presentations and Photoshop.

The afternoon session with Marcus was much more interesting though because I had more idea about what we were talking about.

I enjoyed the coarse overall. :)