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 Facilitating Student Generate Content - from Thom Cochran Unitec []

Table 1 Affordances of smartphones mapped to social constructivist activities.
Livestream [|Ustream] || Real-time Event, data and resource capturing and collaboration. || @http://tinyurl.com/2j5sz3 || Asynchronous communication, collaboration and support. || txt and twitter polls @http://www.polleverywhere.com/ http://twitter.polldaddy.com @http://twtpoll.com/ || Scaffolding, learning and administrative support || [|QR Code Readers Software] [|Short URL QR Code Generator] Google's QR Generator || Situated Learning – providing context linking ||
 * Activity || Overview || Examples || Pedagogy ||
 * Video Streaming || Record and share live events || Flixwagon, Qik http://www.qik.com
 * Geo tagging || Geo-tagg original photos, geolocate events on Google Maps || Flickr, Twitter, Google Maps || Enable rich data sharing. ||
 * Micro-blogging || Post short updates and collaborate using micro-blogging services || [|Twitter]
 * Txt notifications || Course notices and support || Txttools plugin for Moodle and Blackboard
 * Direct screen sharing || Video out to video projector, pico projector or large screen TV || Microvision Show @http://tinyurl.com/celgot || Student presentations, peer and lecturer critique. ||
 * Social Networking || Collaborate in groups using social networking tools || [|Vox] groups, Ning, peer and lecturer comments on Blog and media posts @http://tinyurl.com/4uz6rj || Formative peer and lecturer feedback. ||
 * Mobile Codes || 2D Codes scanned by cameraphone to reveal URL, text etc… || QR Codes, Datamatrix 2D Codes @http://tinyurl.com/af2u6d
 * Enhanced Student PODCasts || Remote recording of audio, tagged with GPS and images etc… || AudioBoo || Situated and collaborative Learning – providing context linking ||
 * Augmented Reality || Overlaying the real world with digital information, tagging || Wikitude || Situated and collaborative Learning – providing context linking ||

Pedagogy - more from Thom
The underpinning pedagogy chosen for the project is social constructivism, focusing upon students recording and documenting their learning collaboratively across multiple contexts using mobile web 2.0 tools. This is illustrated by Fig1 above - a mobile web 2.0 concept map, created by the researcher. An interactive version can be viewed online at:

[] (mirror at [] ).

Herrington’s (Herrington & Herrington, 2007) nine critical success factors in establishing authentic learning environments include:
 * authentic contexts that reflect the way the knowledge will be used in real-life
 * authentic activities that are complex, ill-defined problems and investigations
 * authentic assessment that reflect the way knowledge is asses in real life

Laurillard also backs this up: “M-learning technologies offer exciting new opportunities for teachers to place learners in challenging active learning environments, making their own contributions, sharing ideas, exploring, investigating, experimenting, discussing, but they cannot be left unguided and unsupported. To get the best from the experience the complexity of the learning design must be rich enough to match those rich environments” (Laurillard, 2007) (p174).