{"id":7107,"date":"2011-11-15T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T05:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2011-11-15T21:22:28","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T05:22:28","slug":"day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/15\/day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">At present I am not engaged in any form of mlearning, but from participating this week\u2019s activities I have come to the realisation that Mobile learning is a great way to supplement teaching and learning and it poises to provide opportunities to do much more to enrich the learning experience as it is convenient to both teachers and learners, it is portable, compatible , engaging and fun.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>While we have so many positives, the potential limitations of mlearning devices lingers considering that they are machines.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Some of these include,<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">The small screens of mobile devices which may cause a strain on the eyes<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Battery life\/charge of these gadgets<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Many time hardware platform are not compatible which <span>\u00a0<\/span>makes it difficult to develop content for all.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">It can be difficult to manipulate large and moving graphics<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Devices can become out of date quickly since technology is advancing so rapidly<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Poor bandwidth may result into limited access.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Mlearning extends the teaching and learning spaces beyond the walls of the <span>\u00a0<\/span>traditional classroom but these are some points to consider before we delve into this new learning trend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: normal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'\">Keisha<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At present I am not engaged in any form of mlearning, but from participating this week\u2019s activities I have come to the realisation that Mobile learning is a great way to supplement teaching and learning and it poises to provide opportunities to do much more to enrich the learning experience as it is convenient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","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\/7307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}