Tweet A quick question for staff with iPads. Do you want to record student presentations, group work etc., to provide formative feedback? If the answer is yes, the following describes a simple way of achieving this with the technology in you pocket (ish). The Elevate Team have tested the following in a couple of different [...]
Posts for the ‘Mobile Learning’ Category
During the 2010/2011 academic year, the service will aim to:
- Evaluate the effective use of mobile technologies to enhance learning and teaching at the University Campus Suffolk
- Foster the emergence of a community of practice around the use of classroom technologies
- Capture and disseminate good practice in the use of mobile technologies at the University Campus Suffolk
- Support and develop a QR Code Generator Service hosted by the University Campus Suffolk
To see more information about the service, click on the service catalogue for our QR Code Generator Service. This answers the following broad questions;
- An overview of what the service is about
- What is included within the service, and what should they expect
- Who to contact about issues
- The degree to which the services supported… and what happens when things go wrong!
Gathering evidence in the Lab and uploading it into LearnUCS using Mobile LearnUCS
AndyR 
October 16th, 2012 Tweet We (the Elevate team) are starting to author a number of FAQs around using Mobile LearnUCS (this is the mobile app supplied by Blackboard). The following FAQ / Guide is tackling a request we have had from Staff who are using iPads in the Lab. A request is they occasionally collect evidence from lab [...]
Taking lecture notes with your tablet using Mobile LearnUCS
AndyR September 25th, 2012 Tweet We (the Elevate team) are starting to author a number of FAQs around using Mobile LearnUCS (this is the mobile app supplied by Blackboard). To start the process we’ve been looking at a potential workflow for a student wishing to take lecture notes (or annotating the powerpoint slides). The following outlines the use on [...]
Mobile LearnUCS is available
AndyR September 19th, 2012 Tweet As you may have seen after logging into LearnUCS, the mobile version is now available from various app stores. The software is developed by Blackboard, and not UCS. Therefore, we don’t have any control over the features and functionality. However, we’d suggest the mobile version is getting better over time, and hope to see [...]
Release of #UCSConnect in the App Store #aurasma
AaronB March 2nd, 2012 Tweet UCS Connect, the visual browsing application reskinned from the Aurasma Lite app has now been approved and is a avilable for download from the app store. Shown below is the app in the app store via an iPhone, UCS Connect is also available via the Android Market Place for users with Android devices. The [...]
Posted in App Reviews, Mobile Learning, Projects & Pilots, Your Stories 
Tags: Augmented Reality, Aurasma, UCS Connect 
No Comments »Interactive Poster Prototype #UCSConnect #aurasma
AaronB February 22nd, 2012 Tweet The Elevate Team have been working with Sam Chenery-Morris, a lecturer within the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Sam is presenting a poster at the RCN Education Forum Conference titled “Evaluating Midwifery Practice “. The Elevate picked up on this poster during a chat with Sam as part of the “Learning Technologist for a [...]
Posted in Classroom Tech, Mobile Learning, Projects & Pilots Tags: Augmented Reality, Aurasma, UCS Connect 1 Comment »Visual Browsing, Interactive Posters and Publicity Material #aurasma
AaronB January 24th, 2012 Tweet It has been an interesting few weeks regarding visual browsing and augmented reality at UCS. The Elevate Team have been experimenting with the Aurasma app, as shown in previous posts. We have been looking at using the visual browsing tool to create interactive posters, bring them to life. We have now got a [...]
Interactive poster experiment – why does the price of a coffee change?
AndyR December 20th, 2011 Tweet We have been interested in exploring the idea of developing Interactive Posters, where we would use both QR Codes and Augmented Reality to enable the reader to connect to additional multimedia based learning material. A scenario might be where a student submits a poster as part of an assignment, this includes quick scan links [...]
Visual Browsing & Augmented Reality – An update
AaronB December 2nd, 2011 Tweet I just wanted to give a quick update on the app that we used for the quick demo shown in this post “Visual Browsing and Augmented Reality“, we have a number of teams at UCS interested in this technology. One of the teams is the Marketing department who are looking to “spice up” the [...]
Remote Docs
Andrew Revitt November 18th, 2011 Tweet Up to recently, I have been relying on dropbox or emailing files to myself as means of getting files from my UCS account onto my iPad. This has often required advance planning to ensure I have the documents I need at a particular time. A couple of days ago I thought I would try the RemoteDocs facility [...]
