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Title:
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FROM DIGITAL TO MOBILE STORYTELLING: NEW USES OF MOBILE LEARNING |
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Author(s):
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Pablo Ortega Gil, Francisco Arcos García |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-99-7 |
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Editors:
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Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2010 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Digital storytelling, flashcard trainer, virtual keyboard, rubric. |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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292 |
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Last Page:
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296 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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After some years working with blended learning, the authors have begun experiencing with mobile learning and exploring its many possibilities. We have a Learning Management System (LMS) for each of the subjects we teach, all of them connected to English as a second language, and these LMS have been enriched with the Mobile Learning Engine plug-in. Thanks to MLE, some of the activities in our LMSs can be accessed from the students´ mobile devices. So far, we have started several projects. The nature of the first one is general: we integrate links between the explanations given in class and the activities in the LMS which are relevant for them. The second has been developed for a subject called English Phonology: we use the mobile device to send and receive phonological transcriptions, using two features called the Flashcard Trainer and the Virtual keyboard. Finally, and most importantly, we are exploiting a project on digital storytelling launched by us last year. The students are asked to create stories according to a closely-knit rubric, stories which are later sent to their peers´ mobile devices to be graded and to be used as the starting point for a classroom debate. Although the project is still far from being completed, results so far are promising. |
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