Handheld Learning - learning with mobile and ubiquitous technologies

Hi Iona

Welcome to the forum,  it's great to have you here sharing your experiences as a learner and I'm sure you can teach us a few things!

Can you tell us a bit more about how you are using your N800's in your everyday work?

Can you use them whenever you like or do you have particular activities?

Thanks!

Graham


 

Hi Iona

So it sounds like you have developed an "acceptable use policy" for how you use your devices in class.

Do you find any benefit for using them at home?

Graham

Hi Iona
Very interesting to hear how you are using the N800 both in and out of school.
Do your teachers every give you learning resources to put on your N800 so you can use them when there is not a wireless internet connection?

Michael

Hi Iona and everyone

Iona is doing a great job at explaining what we are doing. The aim of the project is to try and integrate the Learning Platform- in our case Uniservity- with the Handheld Devices- Nokia N800 Internet Tablets.

Once I've planned it- tomorrow we are going to use the N800's to research Tudor Medicine and build up a picture of a Tudor Medicine Chest. So we'll use the tablets to do the research, and then the children can choose whether they use the N800's or pen and paper to produce the outcome. The outcome can then be added to Uniservity.

If you want to see what we are doing, you'll need to get hold of the forthcoming Becta DVD on Learning Platforms- our Tudor Day is the first video ont he DVD. It features a fair amount of work using the N800's.

OK, better get to work.

Philip Griffin

I'm posting this for another member of my class whose parents want her to stay anonymous.

High Tech Class!
 

My class  has the best way of teaching - with mini Internet tablets! My class of 30 children has a N800 each all funded by our school and local council. These devices are expensive and therefore we are very careful with them. We are allowed to take them home everyday to finish homework that we have been set or to show our parents the work we have done in school that day.
                                   
Or teacher is really good at making our lessons interesting by giving us certain web sites to look at or giving us time to jot down notes whilst he is talking. Also the good thing about the N800s is that work can be saved and later on uploaded onto Uniservity (our school web site.) Our school received a letter asking if we wanted to bring 8 people from our class to go to London Olympia via Uniservity.     
     
Of course my teacher agreed and he chose 8 people to go with him to London. We all had a great day and the rest of the class back at school weren't left out because they used the n800s to communicate by the Uniservity instant messaging tool. Also, every month or so have camera crews and people in from other companies to see how we use the N800s and Uniservity. We all have great use out of our N800s and they are definitely worth having!!   

C.

It is great to hear how you are using your devices; some of the children form my School will be posting on here soon (I hope!); I think they will be a similar age to you.  It would be great if the two Schools could share experiences.