Desde Micro-blogs a Moblos y Herramientas Web para

aprendizaje – usando herramientas para

aprendizaje Libre y Abierto

Teemu Leinonen

Research Group Leader Media Lab - TaiK Helsinki, Finland

Visiting Fellow SRI International Menlo Park, California

Let’s start with two trends:

Mobile Phones

Wikis

Mobile Phones

1. Mobile phones2. Multimedia phones

3. Handheld devices (iPods, calculators, etc.)

4. Multimedia phone-computers5. Internet tablets6. Ultralight laptops

Mobile phones (and other digital mobile

devices)

“Mobile phones” “Computers”

2007 Nokia: “mobile multimedia computers”

2007 Apple Computers Inc.dropped "Computer" from its

name and is now just Apple Inc.

Internet tabletsUltralight laptops Multimedia phone

computers

Handheld devices

Multimedia phones

Mobile phones100%

50%

75%

0%

25%

World population

More than 200 000 000

Mobile phone features:

• Talk and Text (SMS)

• Contacts• Clock / Alarm • Calculator • Torch / flashlight

• Mobile network

Multimedia phone features:

• Talk and Text

+• Music / Audio (MP3) / FM radio• Camera: photo + video• Java

• Mobile network - Bluetooth

Mobile Phones

Wikis

Wikis

How many of you have used Wikipedia this week?

How many of you have edit Wikipedia articles?

• Word largest encyclopedia • 10 000 000 + articles• 250 + languages• One of the world’s top 10 websites (ahead of BBC, CNN, Microsoft etc.)

• Created entirely by volunteers • 6 000 000 accounts • “Wikipedians” (en.wikipedia: 1500 administrators)

(Source: Wikimedia Foundation 2008)

Wikipedia is an example of many-to-many media

• Wiktionary - a dictionary in all the languages of the world

• Wikiquote – a collection of quotations from famous people, books and speeches

• Wikibooks - a collection of free study and textbooks

• Wikisource – multilingual collection of texts that could be distributed as free and open content

• Wikispecies - directory of the world species

• Wkinews - news service • Wkiversity – a site for learning materials and learning communities

• Wikimedia Commons - collection of free photographs, diagrams, maps, videos, animations, music, sounds, spoken texts, and other free media

Story from South Africa

MobilED Mobile Audio Wiki video

Mobile many-to-many media

Why people want to do media?

Why people contribute to the Wikipedia?

Because they can.

Many-to-many media tools and services

links, web-sites (wikis), point of views (blogs), micro content (micro

blogs), photos, audios and videos, learning environments

Sharing

http://del.icio.us/

http://www.citeulike.org/

Sharing links

Sharing links

http://www.wikispaces.com/

http://www.wikia.com/

Sharing web-sites (wiki)

Sharing web-sites (wiki)

http://www.wordpress.com/

http://www.blogger.com/

Sharing point of views (blogs)

(... and fast creation of a web site)

Sharing point of views (blogs)

http://www.twitter.com/

http://www.jaiku.com/

Sharing micro content (micro-blogs)

Sharing micro content (micro-blogs)

http://www.flickr.com/

http://commons.wikimedia.org/

Sharing photos

Sharing photos

http://qik.com/

http://blip.tv/

Sharing audios and videos

Sharing audios and videos

http://www.wikiversity.org

http://www.wikieducator.org

Sharing learning environments

Sharing learning environments

Tools for mobiles

http://www.widsets.com/

http://qik.com/

http://blip.tv/

http://www.jaiku.com/

Tools for mobiles

Gracias - Kiitos - Thank you

Teemu Leinonenteemu.leinonen@taik.fi