IEEE Memphis Computer Society in collaboration with The University Memphis and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital presents a one-day conference the explores the application of mobile technologies (tablet PCs, internet-capable phones, etc.) for educational application at all levels.
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Event Details: A one-day conference the explores the application of mobile technologies (tablet PCs, internet-capable phones, etc.) for educational application at all levels.
Organized by the Advanced Learning Center at the University of Memphis in collaboration with the IEEE Memphis Computer Society and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Speakers include:
Dr. James Kelley, Apple Regional Educational CIO
Dr. Robbie Melton, Tennessee Board of Regents, Associate Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs
Dr. Michael Grant, University of Memphis, Faculty, College of Education
Conference Content at a Glance:
Educational Track (applied)
Developers’ Track
Live Demonstrations and Hands-on Opportunities
Panel Discussions
Professional Networking Opportunities
Registration:
Attendance is free for all, but lunch will be provided for the first 120 registrants.
• Registration & Coffee
Time: 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Main Lobby
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• Welcome and Greetings
Time: 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Room 115
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• Morning Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker- Dr. James Kelley, Apple
Time: 8:45 AM - 9:15 AM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Room 115
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• Panel Discussion: What is "Mobile"?
Time: 9:30 AM - 10:10 AM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Room 115
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• Morning Break
Time: 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM (Central Time)
Location: Free Time
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• Track A: Teaching & Learning
BYOD — Bring your own device! Strategies for making teaching & learning mobile One of the significant promises of mobile learning is ability for faculty members and students to use their own mobile computing devices. In this hands-on session, we’ll take a look at strategies for teaching and learning that are appropriate for a variety of mobile computing devices and platforms. Specifically, we’ll explore QR codes, capturing student responses and artifacts easily inside Posterous, using polling for formative assessment, and phonecasting/phlogging for representing knowledge. BYOD — Bring your own device!
Presenter: Michael Grant
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:10 AM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track B: Technical & Developers
Interaction Design in Mobile Web Sites
Interaction Designing for Mobile Web Sites Instantaneous, multi-device communications and touch interactions unfolding on an ever-growing array of devices and screen sizes are shifting expectations and necessitating new approaches to creating compelling, relevant, simple mobile web experiences. In this lively session, the Lokion team will outline innovative ways to focus mobile web interactions on what's most appropriate for your audiences. We will share our experience with mobile audience field research, our invention to support mobile device usability testing and our approach to designing delightfully frictionless mobile web interfaces that responsively adapt to each device context.
Presenters:
Shiloh Barnat and Matt Ladner (www.lokion.com)
Time: 10:20 AM - 11:10 AM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track A: Teaching & Learning
Mobile Learning - There IS an app for that!
Is mobile learning for me? For my students? Do only online students benefit from mobile learning? Do you have to design your own apps in order to use a mobile device? These and other questions will be explored as we investigate how mobile learning can be implemented into your teaching, regardless of delivery. Specific uses of mobile devices in face-to-face, hybrid or completely online courses will be discussed, including ways these devices can create opportunities for learning and interaction for your students.
Presenter: Joanne Gikas
Time: 11:20 AM - 12:10 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track B: Technical & Developers
Creating an Alternate Reality- Augmented Reality Advances into Mobile Technology In a relatively short time, mobile technology has completely changed the way we interact with each other and our world. Augmented reality is going to take that a step further and change the way we literally SEE the world in front of us. This talk will describe the software and design strategies needed to create augment reality applications for mobile devices.
Presenter: Madeline Ward
Time: 11:20 AM - 12:10 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Lunch Keynote Speaker and Demonstrations
Presenter: Dr. Robbie Melton
Time: 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Room 115
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• Track A: Teaching & Learning
Presentation: There’s NO App for That?
iPod, iPad and Android-based “apps” designed to assist students with disabilities have experienced an explosion in growth over the past year. Still, many special educators envision apps they would like to see but wonder how they can make these apps a reality? Questions regarding costs, knowhow, and on-going app support often stifle development of some fantastic ideas. In these times of diminishing school budgets at both the K-12 and post-secondary levels, this session outlines how one such idea for an “app” became a reality with NO initial funding through a creative collaboration formed at Bowling Green State University. The session will cover how the process took place, from initial idea to product trials. Finally, thoughts will be provided as to how such efforts can obtain continuing support when grants and other sources of funds continue to diminish.
Presenter: Robert L. Williamson
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track B: Technical & Developers
iOS application Development
Most applications, whether for enterprise or the general public, rely heavily on 3rd party and/or services, for example, Facebook, Twitter, SimpleGeo or internal web services/applications. The aggregation of these datasources on an mobile device is NOT efficient. The primary goal of the app should be to provide the best user experience. I will show you how to architect a middlware layer and iOS application framework, using dynamic tools, in order to standardize a payload response to the iOS application.
Presenter: Cory D. Wiles (www.corywiles.com)
Time: 1:30 PM - 2:40 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track A: Teaching & Learning
Presentation: Mobilization of the Natural Sciences
Session will highlight the impact of mobile devices (iPad/iPod/LiveScribe/Mobile Elmo/) and apps for the natural sciences of Biology Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Science, as well as demonstrations for mobile labs.
Presenters: Dr. Jeff Horner and Dr. Kimberly Bolton
Time: 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Track B: Technical & Developers
Mobile website and app development for Cure4Kids.org Taking a regular website and converting it to a mobile optimized website or app presents a lot of new challenges in terms of usability and design. We will present the process and the lessons learned for porting an existing website with flash-enabled content to a mobile app and a mobile optimized HTML5 website. You will learn technical details of how to use REST APIs and iOS APIs as a method to synchronize and access a remote database. Session management and authentication will also be presented, along with highlights and key points of design decisions that impact usability in the mobile environment. (APIs Covered: iOS 4+, HTML5)
Presenters: Jay Knight and Aman Patel (www.cure4kids.org)
Time: 2:50 PM - 3:40 PM (Central Time)
Location: TBA
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• Informal Networking and Follow-up Discussions
Time: 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM (Central Time)
Location: Panhellenic Main Lobby
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