1. PRE-SESSION ACTIVITY
While you wait for the session to begin:
1. Go to:
http://todaysmeet.com/bbvillage
2. Share your institutional process
for supporting innovation in
teaching and learning (in 144
characters or less.)

2. Mobile Learning
It Takes a Village

3. ABOUT US
Robin Robinson
Director Education Technology
rrobinson@framingham.edu
Clair Waterbury
Instructional Technologist
cwaterbury@framingham.edu
Framingham State University
Framingham, MA
www.framingham.edu

4. FRAMINGHAM STATE
UNIVERSITY
Founded 1839
Located 20 Miles West of Boston
6506 students (4489 undergrads – 2017 grad students)
25 Undergraduate Programs
26 Graduate Programs
Undergrad Laptop Requirement
Online Learning since 1998

5. OUR AGENDA
Our Challenge
Our Approach
Success Stories
Lessons Learned
Make it Yours

6. OUR CHALLENGE
What is the impact on
teaching and learning if
iPads are introduced into
the classroom?
Aline Davis, PhD, Biology

7. OUR CHALLENGE
Why Mobile?

8. OUR APPROACH
Assemble a team
Create a process
Identify resources
Build support
Define policies and procedures

9. OUR APPROACH
MOBILE TASK FORCE
Operations: Policy,
Procedure and
Support
Our Mobile
Footprint
Teaching and
Learning
Environment

10. OUR APPROACH
IT TAKES A VILLAGE
•Academic Affairs
•ITS
•Library
•Assessment
Core Team
•Faculty
•CASA
•Students
•ETO/User
Services
Student
Success
•Business Office
•Networking
•UTC
Logistics

11. OUR APPROACH
INNOVATION GRANTS
Develop technology proficiency
Design new instructional
strategies
Improve teaching effectiveness
Increase student learning
Limited resources

12. OUR APPROACH
INNOVATION GRANTS
Significance
Significance of
Need Addressed
Extent of
Innovation
Quality of
Implementation
and Evaluation
Plans
Feasibility
Sponsorship
Support
Available
Resources (Non-
Financial)
Readiness for
Adoption
Impact
Short-term
Implications
Potential for
Broader Adoption
Long-term
Sustainability

13. SUCCESS STORIES
Community Building
Integration into the Curriculum
Mobile Task Force
Tablet Breakfasts
Innovation Grants

14. SUCCESS STORIES
MOBILE PRESENCE

15. SUCCESS STORIES
Art Education Computer Animation Social Media Graphic Novels
Student Engagement

16. SUCCESS STORIES
iPad Pilot 2012-2013: Mobile Engagement
Hardcopy text
E-book on Laptop
E-book on iPad
Fall Semester
Instructor selected
iBook
Institution
purchased apps
Text on
CourseSmart
Spring Semester

17. OUR RESULTS
Purchase Blackboard Mobile
University License
Evernote Electronic Lab notebook
Mobile Task Force
Creation of Web App: FSU Go

18. SUCCESS STORIES
Tablet Grant 2013-2014: Mobile Engagement Comparison
iPads
Lenovo ThinkPad
Tablets
Study Blue flash
card creation
Overdrive
Camtasia
Poll Everywhere
Dropbox
Blackboard Mobile

19. OUR RESULTS

20. SUCCESS STORIES
Graphic Novel Grant 2013-2014: Creating for Mobile
Features of Digital Books
• Sound effects
• Narrations
• Animated art
• Ability to share and
critique work digitally
iPad –Testing and
viewing examples
iBook Author
InDesign – Foliotool
CS6

21. SUCCESS STORIES
iPad – Provided Mobility
Google + Communities
Classroom Salon
Puffin (browser)
Blackboard Mobile (LMS)
Social Media Grant 2013-2014: Mobile in Victorian Literature
Use of Dynamic Annotation
• Classroom Salon
• Public and Private Annotation
• Tagging
• Collaboration with Carnegie Mellon
• Commenting
• Analytics
• Personalized with Avatars
Uses of Google Communities
• Role playing
• Scavenger hunt
• Hashtags for assignments
• Victorian Tea

22. • Art Education - iPads for student teachersArt Education
• Computer Animation Techniques
Communication
Arts
• Victorian Communities -continue to refine
social mediaEnglish
• Lecture Capture and on-demand pollingBiology
SUCCESS STORIES
WHAT’S NEXT AY13-14

23. LESSONS LEARNED
Assessment is essential
Collaboration and
Communication is key
Share the support
Embed sharing and support in
Blackboard
Learn from others, share with
others

24. LESSONS LEARNED
BYOD is the reality
Students adopted Blackboard
Mobile Learn (no prompting)
Convenient
Not a replacement for the
laptop, yet
Opportunities to innovate

25. MAKE IT YOURS
There is an App for That
Make it fun – Tablet Breakfast
Innovation Grants
It will take a village

26. THANK YOU!
Robin Robinson
rrobinson@framingham.edu
Clair Waterbury
cwaterbury@framingham.edu
Framingham State University
ITS- Education Technology Office
eto@framingham.edu

27. THANK YOU!
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Session Title: Mobile Learning: It Takes a Village