{"id":7093,"date":"2011-11-15T17:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2011-11-15T17:55:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T01:55:34","slug":"are-you-doing-m-learning-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/15\/are-you-doing-m-learning-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you doing m-learning now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – What, when, where and how are you doing m-learning now?<\/em><\/p>\n

I use my smart phone mostly for communication: voice calls and email.\u00a0 Occasionally, I will get info from the web, check Google maps, or use one of the apps like the qrcode scanner.\u00a0 I have plenty of minutes and 6GB of data transfer.\u00a0 I do have an iPad so I am using that actively now as my pen and paper replacement.\u00a0 I use my iPad: at every meeting (Evernote is my best friend), at professional development sessions, for creating documents, messaging, social networking, tweeting, communicating, and so on.\u00a0 My smart phone is often used in tandem with my iPad as a wireless access point.<\/p>\n

If I did not have an iPad, I probably would be using my smartphone (android) much more for m-learning and other tasks.<\/p>\n

I do not know if this is m-learning exactly, but if I am shopping for a non-clothing\/non-food item that is perhaps over $50, I will use my smart phone quite heavily to look up reviews while I am in the store.\u00a0 For example, I recently purchased a new wireless router\/switch for my home.\u00a0 It seems every few months, there are new router makes and models on the shelves… there is no possible way to keep up with the features and improvements.\u00a0 So, I narrowed down my choices to three units, searched Google for “wireless router review” and I read the cnet and pcmag reviews (pros and cons are most helpful) for the three units I was considering.\u00a0 It took approximately 10 minutes (maybe not even that long…) to compare the features and prices and make a decision that I was happy with (BTW-bought a Netgear N600 which has worked flawlessly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 1 – What, when, where and how are you doing m-learning now? I use my smart phone mostly for communication: voice calls and email.\u00a0 Occasionally, I will get info from the web, check Google maps, or use one of the apps like the qrcode scanner.\u00a0 I have plenty of minutes and 6GB of data […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1509,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-11-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}