1. Exploring Mobile Technologies and Apps on Campus
Sue Bauer, Rick Brunson, & Ryan Seilhamer | May 31, 2012

2. Poll Question Which Mobile Device Do You Own?
Text one of the following codes to 37607
iPhone
Android
Blackberry
Other
Results

3. Introduction Ryan Seilhamer Rick Brunson Sue Bauer
CDL serves as the central agent for online learning at UCF, providing distance learning strategies and policies, online course design and development support for instructors, and technical support for instructors and students.

4. Session Overview Curriculum App Adoption Mobility in Journalism
Mobile Implementation Framework
Audience Participation – Poll Everywhere
Tech Boot Camp, 3:30
What is your favorite app?

5. Poll Question What is your favorite app?
Text code and your answer to 37607
Example: Evernote
Results

6. Technology Adoption
Technology is first adopted to simplify daily tasks and work...
Sue Starts
Technology is first adopted to simplify daily tasks/work
Tools are created to make daily work easier – Hammer and Nail
Computers are created to make daily tasks easier – Scientific Research and Office Tasks
Education uses Online CMS/LMS
I have found resistant faculty begin using tool for Course administration ( , calendar, grade book)
TODAY’S FOCUS…
APPs in Education – will be adopted by faculty/students for a similar and in a similar manner
Adopted first to make online teaching easier
Today there are thousands of APPs available for iOS and android. I plan to highlight the “most popular” and those I have interacted with… some are brand/software specific and some are general tool apps that have several vendors available
Don’t limit yourself. Search the Web!

7. Three Categories for App Adoption
Faculty/Student Course Administration
Student Course Work
Professional Development (Work Force)
I’ve categorized three areas for the use and adoption of APPS in Online Teaching and Learning
Apps for Faculty/Student Course Administration
Apps for Student Course Work
Apps for Professional Development (Work Force)

8. 1. Faculty/Student Course Administration Apps
Apps that assist faculty/students in performing the logistics of teaching and learning
These Apps can cross over different disciplines and are used for:
Organization
Instruction
Accessibility
First to be adopted!
Apps that assist Faculty/Students in performing the logistics of their jobs teaching and learning.
These APPs can cross over different disciplines.
Organizational
Instructional
Accessibility

9. 1. Faculty/Student Course Administration Organizational Apps
Apps that can assist an instructor or student with class administration
Evernote
Dropbox
Google Drive
Teacher Pal (Attendance)
Calendar
Organizational Apps assist keeping an instructor or student organized with class administration
Evernote - take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders and access from different devices
Dropbox – file management and sharing
Google Drive- file management and sharing (Google Docs)
Teacher pal (attendance) - teachers to track the attendance, grades and behavior of students
Calendar – organize course due dates, sync with LMS/CMS

10. 1. Faculty/Student Course Administration Instructional Apps
Apps that can promote instructor-to-student interaction and engagement
eClicker
Best Prompter Pro
Google Translate
Graphing Calculator
Instructional Apps assist keeping an instructor engaged with students during instruction
eClicker- allows teachers to poll their class during a lesson. It provides teachers with the real-time feedback they need to be sure their messages are being received
best prompter pro - Professional teleprompter for iPad allows you to create and smoothly scroll scripts during a speech. It becomes your best friend while
practicing and delivering public speeches.
Google translate - Translate words and phrases between more than 60 languages using Google Translate for iOS. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations.
IEP Checklist - Individualized Education Program designed to support the educational needs of school aged students with disabilities.
graphing calculator - high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator

11. 1. Faculty/Student Course Administration Accessibility Apps
Assistive apps for all individuals (with or without disabilities)
Sign Language
Speech to Text
Seeing and Hearing Assistive apps
Apps for Learning Life Skills
Accessibility Apps Assistive Apps for all individuals—with or without disabilities
Sign Language
Sign 4 me – Sign Language in 3-D
Communication
Dragon Dictation - speak and instantly see your text or messages
Seeing and hearing
LookTel Money Reader - recognizes currency and speaks the denomination, enabling people with visual impairments or blindness to quickly and easily identify and count bills.
Life Skills
Video Scheduler – construct picture and video schedules
Behavior tracker – software to collect data and instantaneously graph results

12. 2. Student Course Work Apps
Apps that assist students’ learning and performing the logistics of their class requirements
Content Management
Reference
Curriculum Support
Games
Apps for Student Course Work
Apps that assist students in learning and performing the logistics of their class requirements
Content Management
Reference
Curriculum Support
Games

13. 2. Student Course Work Content Management System Apps
Basic Tools:
Announcements
Grades
Discussions/Journals/Video
Content
Blogs/Wikis
Push Notification
Content Management or Learning Management (CMS/LMS) System Apps
Blackboard Mobile Learn
Desire2Learn
Instructure's Canvas
Basic Tools for use:
Push Notification, Announcements, Grades, Discussions/Journals/Video, Content, and Blogs/Wikis

14. 2. Student Course Work Reference Apps
Dictionary.com
World Atlas
Encyclopedia Britannica
NASA
Wikipedia
Common Core Standards
Reference Materials to support content delivery:
dictionary.com – dictionary.com and thesaurus.com in an app!
world atlas – many apps available for specific disciplines
encyclopedia Britannica – encyclopedia in your palm
NASA – huge collection of NASA content
Wikipedia – app version of popular web site
common core standards- reference for students, parents, and teachers to easily read and understand the core standards for k-12.

15. 2. Student Course Work Curriculum Support Apps
Apps that enhance the delivery of course content and content application
Audio Note
eBooks
TED
Games
Apps that provide material to enhance the delivery of course content and content application.
Audio Note - a notepad and voice recorder
eBooks readers/apps – allows user to read eBooks
Pictello - talking photo albums and talking books
TED – presentations from the “world’s most fascinating people”
Games – games used to enhance learning.
Evernote
iTunesU
iBooks
Swank (Video)
Zapd
Edmoso
i Movie
CliffNotes
EZ Read
Stuck on Earth

16. 3. Professional Work Force Apps
Apps students will use once they graduate in their workplace
Discipline Specific
o Apps students will use once the graduate in their workplace
Discipline Specific
math ref - application that includes over 1,400 helpful formulas, figures, tips and examples of the equations, and concepts.

17. Poll Question
What news apps do you use to find out what's going on in the world?
Text code and your answer to 37607
Example: CNN
Results

18. Going Mobile: How Journalists Are Using Smart Phones to Break News in the Digital Age
What news apps do you use to find out what's going on in the world?
Rick Brunson, Journalism Instructor, UCF
Writing Coach, WFTV Channel 9
May 31, 2012 / SERC

19. Mobile by the numbers … 38% of Americans own smart phones.
47% of Americans say they access news each day on their cellphones.
33% have at least one news app on their phone.
1 in 4 Americans say they get most of their news from their mobile device.
30% get news via social media apps (Facebook and Twitter).
By 2014, there will be more Internet searches per day conducted on smart phones than on desktop computers.
By 2016, 88% of all local ad revenue will go to mobile.
50,000 people a day access OS.com through its mobile site and news app (that’s out of 150,000 visitors).
Sources: Poynter Institute for Media Studies; Pew Research Center For the People and the Press; Nielsen Research; Jerriann Sullivan, mobile manager, OrlandoSentinel.com

20. file stories in the field
Most popular news story on OS.com (28,000+ readers)
No. 1 linked basketball story on ESPN.com
Shared 4,880 times on Facebook

21. Record interviews
Use the audio recorder in the phone to interview sources for news stories.
Voice-to-text apps such as Evernote make transcribing interviews faster.

22. File feeds from field

23. Capture pictures and video
The iPhone boasts an 8 megapixel camera and can capture HD-quality (1080p) video.
Quality does not match high-end DSLRs and video cameras yet – but we’re moving in that direction.

24. Sometimes, mobile is the only option…
In poor countries with oppressive regimes and no free press, citizens with mobile phones are getting their stories out to the rest of the world.
Mobile phone video of the death of Neda Agha- Soltan in 2009 by an anonymous citizen won the George Polk Award for Journalism.

25. Coming spring 2013: JOU 4340
Online Journalism becomes Mobile News Production course.
Students will produce news stories, photos and video with mobile devices.
New $125,000 multimedia newsroom.
Collaborative course with Radio-TV capstone course, “Knightly News.’’

26. Poll Question
Do you have a mobile initiative or strategy on your campus?
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Yes No
Unsure
Results

27. Mobile Initiative Team
Center for Distributed Learning
Instructional Designers
Goals
Expose students and instructors to mobile learning tools
Implement new learning strategies
Expand the accessibility of campus information
Enable students to access needed information effectively and efficiently
Mobile Initiative at UCF
In order to accomplish these goals, we formed a mobile initiative team to help streamline the integration of mobile learning at our institution.
The mobile initiative team consists of four instructional designers from UCF’s Center for Distributed Learning (CDL).
"Expose students and instructors to mobile learning tools to implement new learning strategies, expand the accessibility of campus information, and enable students to access needed information effectively and efficiently.”

28. Mobile Learn UCFMobile Mobile Learn:
Blackboard product to access our course management system on a mobile device
UCFMobile:
Integrate mobile learn into our centralized marketing application

29. Mobile Implementation Framework
Scalable solution
Plan, Test, Pilot, Release
Evaluation during each phase
Student and instructor perspective
Impact on infrastructure
Technical support across the university
To help facilitate to implementation of Mobile Learn, the created a Mobile Implementation Framework
4 phases: Plan, Test, Pilot, and Release.
The first two phases of this framework are internal, while the last two are external involving instructors and students.
on a campus considering the student and instructor perspective, impact on infrastructure, and technical support across the university.
Evaluation occurs during each phase and is a key component to this framework.

30. Phase 1: Plan Identify stakeholders (internal and external)
Project goals
Identify desired outcomes and goals with stakeholders
Available resources
Technology/mobile devices, funding, personnel
Project timeline
Desired outcomes for each phase
Length of time needed for each phase
Evaluation: informal interviews stakeholders
Plan
Stakeholders
Internal: Administration, CMS admins, computer services
External: students and faculty
Project Goals
Meet with stakeholders
select the mobile technology/application to be implemented
identify the desired outcomes and goals.
Available Resources
Evaluated existing resources available such as
technology/mobile devices
funding
personnel
internal/external funding sources available to acquire them.
Project Timeline
After identifying the overall project goals,
desired outcomes for each phase of this framework.
length of time needed for each phase
establish a project timeline.
Considerations:
some phases would take longer to complete than others depending on the goals and outcomes for each phase.
We learned the importance of concurrently planning for the next phase.
Evaluation
We collected feedback from informal interviews with the internal stakeholders throughout this phase.

31. Phase 2: Test Creating a testing plan Identify Testing Group
Identify critical tools and how they will be used
Easy, yet sufficient
Identify Testing Group
Technical and Educational Level
Roles
Sensitive information
Test the Application (Evaluation)
Identify timeframe and be flexible
Prepare for the pilot
Testing Plan:
Purpose
identifies the most critical tools in the application to be used with the testing group
determines how these tools will be tested.
collect valuable information about the mobile application
Building a plan
An easy, yet sufficient, testing plan focused on
the critical tools and activities
without confusing the user or focusing on less commonly used tools or activities.
Some users might not be familiar with the device or mobile OS.
Identify a testing group:
Attributes to consider include
technology and educational level
role (student/instructor) and
personal bias towards the technology/application.
Specific applications may require personalized roles or access to sensitive information
may dictate who can participate in the testing.
Testing the Application
Need to identified the time frame for the testing to occur.
Be flexible with your testing schedule
Testing Results
The results of the testing phase identified
the technical issues
usability issues of the application
before the pilot release.
Preparing for the Pilot
Prep for the pilot phase occurred during this phase.
Developed a communication plan to determine
how to communicate with pilot participants
identified a main point of contact from our mobile initiative team.

32. Phase 3: Pilot Small scale deployment Test support structure
Real world usage of the app
Develop and test training materials for instructors and students
Test support structure
Train support staff
Determine support call volume
Further optimize the application
Survey (Evaluation)
Collect feedback from instructors and students
PILOT
Roll out the new mobile technology on a smaller scale
ensure the technical support structure was in place
develop training materials for instructors and students
train support staff
anticipate possible issues
Our pilot provided several benefits
ability to collect feedback from instructors and students regarding the application
optimize the application for our universities’ needs
monitor the application for server load to determine how it fits into our current infrastructure
test support materials
report call volume.
At the end of the pilot
invited all student and instructor participants to
complete a voluntary survey
to provide feedback regarding the application.

33. Phase 4: Release Notify stakeholders Marketing plan Support plan
Announcement CMS/ERP
High traffic sites, Social networks, Newsletters
Support plan
Installation, Login, Technical issues
Evaluation
Percentage of users after a time period
Number of support request
Marketing Plan
outlined a campus-wide communication strategy amongst the internal stakeholders and various departments on campus involved in this project.
We leveraged existing tools within our enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and CMS to market the application
including a portal pagelet within our ERP promoting Mobile Learn
institutional messaging feature inside our CMS to notify students of the new application once they logged into their course the first time.
Blackboard also provided us with the Mobile Learn Adoption Kit to help explain and promote the application through ready-made materials such as
fliers, guides, and FAQs.
Identified channels available through our university’s marketing department that could be used to promote Mobile Learn
exposure on high traffic websites
print campaigns
social networking sites.
featured in campus newsletters
promoted on official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Support Plan
identified how the application will be supported campus-wide and
how the user will find support information.
UCF Service Desk: app login issues
CDL support: issues once inside the app
Device manufacture: installation issues
Additional support into our existing Teaching and Learning Online websites.
To provide role specific information for instructors and students on these sites,
for example how to use the application to complete a course versus how to teach a course using the application.
Mobile Learn resources in the standard online course template provided to instructors.
Evaluation
We evaluated the release phase by identifying the percentage of total users that accessed the application.
Our goal was to have 10 percent usage in the first semester with the number increasing thereafter.
We also analyzed the number of support requests related to the application from CDL and the service desk.

34. Questions?

35. Where to reach us… Ryan Seilhamer
Sue Bauer
Rick Brunson
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36. THANK YOU