This will focus on issues of assessing and recording learning with handhelds and moble phones. Elizabeth Hartnell-Young from Learning Sciences Research Institute at Nottingham University<http://www.lsri.nottingham.ac.uk/ehy/> will present her work on mobile portfolios and lifelong learning and I am hoping that other colleagues will be able to contribute - We plan to look at the work of the e-Scape project using PDAs to record progress in D&T coursework and I'm hoping to be able to organise a demonstration of Synchroneyes (<http://www.teem.org.uk/2172/>) which is clearly enabling teachers to monitor and assess learning in a class with PDAs in a way that has had significant positive impact on their comfort levels with managing mobile learning.

This will be at Royal Fort House from 9:30 to 1:30 with lunch. It will be followed by an optional afternoon session reflecting on the workshop series and generating ideas for a research programme. It is difficult to get hold of people at the moment to finalise the programme but Mary is ever ready to take bookings in advance. Email Mary.Takahama@bris.ac.uk

Is it possible to develop this as a major theme within mobile technology? is it realistic to collect data in other workplaces eg images of wound care etc or are mobile phone cameras banned outright on wards, in museums ? It would complement the UALL group's focus on audio.

The seminar will be presented by Russell Francis and David White (Oxford) and will be in Room 410 (35 Berkeley Square) from 11.30 to 12.45 am. There will be coffee and biscuits beforehand from 11 am.

You can view the abstract by clicking here:

<http://www.bris.ac.uk/education/research/activities/seminar/thistermssemin

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 Let me know if anyone from Emerge wants to meet up with people from Mobile Ts and I'll juggle some appointments to make time.

Jocelyn Wishart [UoB - Education] My research into teacher trainees' use of handhelds has shown both pros and cons of mobile use in education but the one BIG plus -virtually everyone I have loaned a Pocket PC to uses it confidently and creatively - leads me to want to develop and test more, more useful ways of using them.

Pam  Moule [UWE - Health and Social Care] Our research has shown nurses and healthcare professionals have difficulty accessing computers in placement settings, given that they spend up to 50% of their course in distance placements this can be problematic, as part of Mobile Ts I want to explore the use of mobile technology to support learning and completion of individual learning portfolios.

Shelley Hales [UoB] "Representing the Arts Faculty, I am interested in the Mobile Ts project as a way of communicating with and allowing our students to record and send back data from their studies in the UK and Europe beyond campus on site field trips, such as archaeological digs, and modern language year abroad placements."

Sue Timmis [UoB - Institute of Learning and Research Technology] "I am researching communication to support higher education learning through mobile technologies and other digital innovations."

Rod Ward [UWE - Health and Social Care] "Rod is interested in how technology can and will affect healthcare practice, management and education - with a special interest in access issues and effective use of mobile technologies. Rod blogs at Informatocopia"

Jane Williams [UoB - Medical Education "There is an increasing interest in the ability for students to be able to record competencies (clinical skills) and clerk patients electronically and submit to a central system. Many clinical teachers see the use of mobile devices as key to making this work for medical students who clerk on the wards and not once back at a PC terminal or home. does raise the issue of data security and other legal and ethical issues as does the use of video and audio containing patient information and clinically sensitive scenarios over mobile devices and need to be investigated."

Andy Ramsden [UoB - Institute of Learning and Research Technology] "Many of you know Andy - it looks as if he's too busy blogging, see mobile learning at Blog City for more info, to add his tuppenyworth here but he has several mlearning and podcasting projects under his belt.

The most relevant is :leicester:WoLF: Pocket PCs to support portfolio development by work-based learners in Further Education

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning> -

Also one from birkbeck and IOE - MyPlan: Personal Planning for Learning throughout Life<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning> whic hdraws on L4All - Lifelong Learning in London for All

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_edistribu>

and one from Oxford:

isthmus: linking the personal and institutional in learning technologies

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning>

Bournemouth (which includes healthcare sector)- PDPxl2 - (this is a follow up to PDP4life that I was involved in )

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning>

derby and rolls royce: Tri-Party eAssessment and personalised learning

<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_elearning>

Thinking about the bid(s) via this may be useful.

Rod