http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/09/serious-toys/ Ideas linking Libraries, Computing, E-learning, and anything else that springs to mind. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:48:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/09/serious-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Keren Mills Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:45:26 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=34#comment-44 How about getting people to bring their mobile phones along? There are lots of applications for m-libraries and I find that our staff are sometimes surprised to discover that their phones can be used for quick reference as they didn't know they could access the internet. For a mobile information literacy exercise see Mobile Safari: http://digilab.open.ac.uk/testarea/mobileSafari/ For examples of useful mobile sites see http://delicious.com/OU_MTech/mobile+mobi How about getting people to bring their mobile phones along? There are lots of applications for m-libraries and I find that our staff are sometimes surprised to discover that their phones can be used for quick reference as they didn’t know they could access the internet.
For a mobile information literacy exercise see Mobile Safari: http://digilab.open.ac.uk/testarea/mobileSafari/
For examples of useful mobile sites see http://delicious.com/OU_MTech/mobile+mobi

]]> http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/09/serious-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Nitin Parmar Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:10:46 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=34#comment-43 I'm not sure if you've got access to an Audience Response System (ARS), but it has Library-related applications, particularly if librarians are running training sessions for more students. The e-Learning team at the University of Bath are currently working up a project website which might be of interest, http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/ I’m not sure if you’ve got access to an Audience Response System (ARS), but it has Library-related applications, particularly if librarians are running training sessions for more students.
The e-Learning team at the University of Bath are currently working up a project website which might be of interest, http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/ARS/

]]> http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/09/serious-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Joy Palmer Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:14:35 +0000 http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/?p=34#comment-42 might be a bit obvious, but I'd include an iPOD or mp3 player too. might be a bit obvious, but I’d include an iPOD or mp3 player too.

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