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Mobile Technology (The Manolo Project (Project Goals (the Manolo …

- - - - has
        eight faculties (schools or colleges)
        and enrolls more than 16,000 students
        in approximately 90 study programs
        (about 40 bachelor’s and more than
        50 master’s programs).
    - - The ICT department
        supports academics to develop
        technological solutions to educational
        problems. The VU campus will have full
        wireless access for students and staff by
        March 2005.
    - - The research institutes
        and university work together closely
        in five areas of expertise: agrotechnology
        and food, animal, environmental, plant,
        and social sciences.
- - - - XDA
        
        a first-generation Pocket PC
        phone edition that connects to the O2 (a
        European mobile communication service
        provider) GPRS network, and to reflect on
        the functionalities and the user-friendliness
        of fully online devices in the context of their
        studies and/or fieldwork.
        
        four
        stages in students’ reactions to the XDA’s
        possibilities
        
        Stage 1: Students typically expressed excitement
        about the product itself. Some
        initial reactions included, “It works ...” or
        “You get used to it quickly” or “The quality
        of the screen is pretty good.”
        
        Stage 2: Initially, students tried familiar applications
        on the XDA: the Internet, MSN,
        and Hotmail.
        
        Stage 3: As students gained familiarity,
        they experimented with its new applications.
        Reactions included, “You can really
        read a book, wow!” and “This one also
        has a dictionary” and “Cool, [we can]
        watch a movie while on the train.”
        
        Stage 4: Finally, students began to reflect
        on its value and utility. Comments
        included, “For what can I really use it?”
        and “What is the value for the money?”
        and “Not a very speedy connection.”
        
        Advantages
        
        Check e-mail everywhere, easy to use and read,
        could replace SMS
        
        Use Internet wherever you are, MSN always online
        
        E-books, useful for making notes, highlighting
        passages
        
        Easy to use
        
        All-in-one agenda, mail, Internet, contacts
        
        Screen size
        
        Good-quality screen
        
        Disadvantages
        
        Connections are slow, typing is slow, keyboard
        necessary, limited storage
        
        Left-to-right scrolling, Web sites too big to see
        effectively on small screen
        
        Pocket Word, Pocket Excel are very limited editions
        
        Costs are too high
        
        Risk of theft, rain, mud, breakability, and so on
        
        Screen size
        
        No integrated camera, GPS
- - - - A printed version of the documents is
        just as easy or even easier to use. Making
        notes on the PDAs was nearly impossible
        because formulas are not recognized and
        the keyboard is too small.
      - The .pdf formatted documents were only
        readable with a lot of scrolling.
      - Using the cradle is difficult, so students
        couldn’t put extra materials on their PDAs
      - Pictures in the .doc versions of the documents
        were not visible.
      - The PDAs had all sorts of technical problems
        that complicated their use.
      - The internal memory was limited and sometimes
        caused the PDAs to be too slow.
- - - - Increase the fit between education type and
        goal, and the digital environment used to
        support it, with a view of offering a portfolio
        of e-, w-, and m-learning courses;
      - formalize this knowledge into educational,
        technological, and organizational
        blueprints and best practices
      - use the digital media, and especially w- and
        m-learning, to facilitate communication and
        community building in digital learning.
  - - - Biodiversity and Ecological Fieldwork
      - Introduction to Geo-Information Science,
      - Field Course: Vegetation Science and Systems
        Ecology,
      - Environmental Science
      - Academic Master Cluster Environmental
        Sciences II.
  - - - three main components
        
        mapping component
        includes the data installed on the PDA and
        ArcPad’s customized mapping functionality for
        collecting point information.
        
        entry form helps the user determine crop
        type and add more information. An application
        made with ArcPad Studio ensures that once
        a point is added by tapping the map on the
        screen, the entry form pops up to assist form
        identification and specification
        
        a storage and
        exchange component
        
        two methods for
        data storage
        
        data collected is locally
        stored and can be transferred to a central GIS
        at the end of the fieldwork.
        
        uses remote data storage.
        The application lets users send the information
        collected about each crop point to a
        remote database through a wireless Internet
        connection (via GPRS).