joining things up with sms

Joining things up with SMS

University of Wolverhampton , 24th March 2009

Geraldine Jonese-Learning Officer

University of Bath

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• Consider the student view

• Share our experiences of using SMS for learning and administration

• Discuss future plans and possibilities

aims

how do students already use SMS communication?

Social interactions typically move across a variety of media - face to face meetings, voice calls, SMS and IM chat.

SMS links to other opportunities for interaction.

What they think about text communication. always on - in your pocket – simple - personal character limit – difficult to organise - cost

what do students think about using SMS for learning?

• Surveyed 600 UG students 2007• Response rate ~ 50%• Male (44%) Female (56%)• 98% 17-25yrs

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results - 1

How useful do you think it would be to use your mobile phone for learning through…

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80

Keeping in touch w ith Tutor

Asking questions of Tutor

Receiving deadline Reminders

Receiving Questions from Tutor

Personal Organisation

Co-ordinating Groupw ork

Asking questions of Students

Providing Mutual Support

Finding out Information

Recording Information

Activity

% Students who think mobiles would be 'very useful' for activity

How often would you like to receive SMS for study purposes?

How often would you like to send SMS for study purposes? (per week)

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Not at All

Once or Tw ice a Week

Once or Tw ice a Day

Four or Five times a Day

More Frequently

Percentage of Students

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

None

Up to 5

Up to 10

Up to 20

Up to 50

More than 50

Percentage of Students

results - 2

part 2 – how are we using SMS for learning?

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over to you …

How is the person next to you using SMS in Teaching, Learning and Administration? Or how do they think they might use it?

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your experiences

• Using a simple framework discuss how you can join up admin or learning conversations with SMS

• Capture your ideas

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clustering your thoughts

EduTxt (SMS) only EduTxt (SMS) with other tools

e-Admin

e-Learning

Q1 how are you using / planning to use SMS in T, L & Admin

framework for analysis

Sign up for news alerts using QR codes

Capturing free text in word clouds

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Hook into discussion boards

EduTxt (SMS) only EduTxt (SMS) with other tools

e-Admin

e-Learning

face to face teaching

Texts to students

Texts from students

Texts to students

Once a Week

Post session activities

Presession activities

SMS joining up face to face and VLE learning

what we said……

Hi Sam. Pls complte yr reflection&action plans 4 time mangmnt (act 7.2, 7.3) Plse post yr top 5 tips for TM to the top tips list. Gabriele.

Hi Tom, pls lk at & comment on the reading improvement video – Moodle (Act 4.1) Pls txt in wht u hve learned from the video b4 session. Gabriele

what they said…..

ED At uni i need 2 self motivate myself 2 gain broader learnin + self thought. I wil use tutors + readin + discussion 2 help me achieve this in the best way. (response to an article)

ED metacognition is an awareness of process of learning.consists of developin plan of action,maintainin monitorin of plan and evaluatin plan (self reflection) (in response to a request for a definition)

word clouds - aggregating responses

for more information please see…

Supporting and Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with m-learning tools: an exploration and analysis of the potential of Mobile Phones and SMS

(Jones, Edwards & Reid 2008)

http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/past/nlc2008/abstracts/PDFs/Jones_162-170.pdf

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summary….

Question in Lecture or via SMS

EduTxt

Collect & printexcel report

TagCrowd orWordle

Remove columns, filter out usingstoplist

Discuss outcomes

Student response via SMS

Let’s try

How do you share web resources? E-mail, shared document, wiki, blog, bookmark software …

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Outcomes

• Straight forward to use, if a little time consuming

• Use on important questions, high cost compared to other face to face approaches

e-admin – sign up news alerts

• why SMS?• why QR Codes?

the workflow

Flyer,Website,Poster

QR Code

SMS

Text: go-news to …

EduTxt

Sort into group using keyword. AutoResponse with unsubscribe

rule: stop-news

Monthly SMS includes link to webreport using go.bath.ac.uk

part 3 – future plans

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joining up SMS(Edutxt) and twitter

• why SMS?• why twitter?• why QR Codes?

E-admin: efficient news and information distribution

E-learning: perpetuating and summarising learning conversations

SMS (EduTxT)

eatBath Twitter

e-learning Web Site

Person A Person B Person C

Moodle Courses

Person D

SMS update

RSS updatesSMS push viasubscription

Follow eatbath

e-admin

for more information

URL

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/qrcode

about QR codes about SMS projects

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/sms/

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thank you & questions

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Geraldine Jones

g.m.jones@bath.ac.uk

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Feedback for me … what did you like, what should I stop doing, and how might I improve this session?

Tag responses: EDUTXT