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Dr. Chris [email protected]
www.aidtech.wlv.ac.uk
www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/projectBluetooth
®projectBluetooth:projectBluetooth:Supporting the Supporting the
Mobile GenerationMobile Generation
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IntroductionIntroduction
• What is Bluetooth• …In Context• …Blueshoot• …In Practice• …Issues• …The next generation
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What is Bluetooth?What is Bluetooth?• License free radio communication
standard– Hardware and Software specifications
• Designed for short range Ad Hoc networking
• Allows for a wide variety of inter-device communications
• It’s free to use and basic hardware costs are minimal
• Safe to use! – ISM band
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• Mobile– Opportunistic learning: Students have access
to learning materials whenever, wherever• Richer transmission technology than SMS
– Not just full colour. Sound, video, interactive, slides, programs…
• Cheap transmission technology– projectBluetooth can be implemented for a
tenner and costs nothing to run (except for electricity!)
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projectBluetooth - BlueshootprojectBluetooth - Blueshoot• Bluetooth ‘hub’
– Module leaders have control
– Constantly searches for registered student devices
• Transmits– Learning objects– Pastoral
information– Anything really!!!
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• Can transmit to any detected device…• …or to pre-selected groups
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• Allows live creation of messages for immediate transmission…
• … but can also upload previous messages or RLOs
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• LINK project• CELT and Graduate School funded• Mobile Architectures module – Covers
mobile radio technologies– Distribution of student-reversioned materials– Idea is to provoke students to reflect and
research
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• LINK Project cont’d– Distribution and development of revision
questions and material by student groups– Intention is to encourage collaborative
learning– Transmission of exam revision questions…– … and answers after a while– Allows revision-on-the-go
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• HEA-ICS project : Blue-ICS– Pastoral information transmitted to students– Lecture cancellations, room changes, exam
timetables
• CELT Podcasting– Transmission of audio podcasts to newly
enrolled students who need an IT account to enrol on course modules
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• Conference version– Trialled at e-Learning Africa– Led to interest in it’s use for other EDUCA
conferences. Berlin, Moscow…
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IssuesIssues
• Speed of transmission• Size of transmission
– Not just slow…– Can students save it on their devices
• Size of device screens– Small and varied
• Capabilities of devices– Can they handle PDFs? JPEGS? Text files?
• Coverage
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projectBluetooth – V2projectBluetooth – V2• New mobile phones have started to come
with Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR– 3 times as fast as 1.2– Uses half the power of 1.2– Video!!!
• Coverage– Multiple Blueshoot hubs using Efika
• AWM On the buses – with Prof. Andy Sloane– Birmingham Science City puts
projectBluetooth in public. Local adverts.
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