The document summarizes a presentation on mobile educational rallies and the Bremen Adventure project. It introduces the concept of guided outdoor mobile learning scavenger hunts using common mobile phones. It provides an example history adventure in Bremen and outlines the pedagogical benefits of hands-on, experiential mobile learning. It demonstrates the technical implementation using Java ME and XML and shows results from usability testing, feedback, and plans for future extensions.

1. MOBILE EDUCATIONAL RALLEY
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The Bremen Adventure
Presentation for the class: Mobile Learning
Lecturers: Dennis Krannich & Zare Saeed
Place & Time: Uni Bremen, 04. Feb. 2009
Presenters: Thamya, Lew, Jasmin & Jan

2. CONTENT
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1. Introduction, Idea & Concept
2. Sample Adventure
Pedagogic Benefits
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4. Live Demonstration
5. Technical Implementation
6. Usability Testing
7. Project in Context and Future
Work
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3. IDEA & CONCEPT
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 Guided outdoor learning
 explorative fashion
 for class groups
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 Scavenger hunt; easy to prepare
 Common mobile phones (no
GPS)
 Learning points and questions as
guidance
 Support for traditional lessons
 Open framework, supports any
topic, multimodal, multilingual
 Target-Group: 3
Middle-School and up

4. SAMPLE ADVENTURE
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 History of Bremen and the Hanse
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SAMPLE ADVENTURE

6. PEDAGOGIC BENEFITS
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 Constructivist
 Focus on exploration
 Communication and collaboration
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 Students find ‘their own way’ to give
answers
 Outdoors, with all senses and ‘in-touch’
with the learning material / content
 Students are responsible for what they
learn
 Motivation
 Challenging
 Competitive notion
 Scores
 No loose-policy with hints
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(cf. e.g. Chris Crawford 1982)

7. PEDAGOGIC BENEFITS
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 4 types of learners:  Learning through senses
 auditory (% quote of memorization):
 hearing only 20%
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 visual
 seeing only 30%
 motor-learning
 hearing and seeing 50%
 communicative
 hearing, seeing & discussing
70%
 hearing, seeing, discussion &
do-it-yourself 90%
(Pohl 1996)
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http://www.smart-kit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/sleep-learning.jpg

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LIVE DEMONSTRATION

9. TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
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 Java ME (J2ME)
 Adventures read from XML
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 Supports sound and images
(video planned)
 Node based implementation,
extremely variable use
 Open Source, download at:
http://code.google.com/p/schnit
zelhunt/
 (GNU General Public License v3)
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http://www.globalstudio.co.uk/images/content_implement.jpg

10. USABILITY TESTING
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 Test session with live run, 6 participants (2 x 3)
 ~ 15 minutes per run
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 Every player one phone & one observer
 One technical advisor
 Short introduction + pre- and post-survey
 Theoretically barrier free
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USABILITY TESTING

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USABILITY TESTING

13. SURVEY AND FEEDBACK
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 All participants had fun
 Everybody completed
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 All but one intuitively used the interface
 Some remembered unrelated info
 Most remembered content related info (mice)
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USABILITY TESTING

15. SURVEY AND FEEDBACK
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 Adventures must be designed carefully
 Instruct for teamwork
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 Clear instructions with few words
 Prevent try-and-error
 All participants thought it was engaging and a good
supplement for traditional learning
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16. PROJECT IN CONTEXT & FUTURE WORK
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 Extensions:
 Extend with web-interface
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 Adventure Builder & Preview (visual interface, e.g. AJAX)
 Share adventure files and download
 Allow more media (video, sound, animations)
 Better interface
 Better interoperability (e.g. polish)
 Similar projects (e.g. Venice)
 Our approach is unique (works now with existing
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hardware)

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QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

18. SOURCES
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 Crawford, C. (1982): The Art of Computer Game Design. URL:
http://www.mindsim.com/MindSim/Corpo-rate/artCGD.pdf. Electronic Revision by Sue Peabody,
Department of History, Washington State University Vancouver 1997 (Abruf: 20. Juni 2006)
 Pohl, W. (1996): Das Lernen lernen. URL: http://www.pohlw.de/lernen/kurs/lernen-kurs.doc. (Abruf: Juni
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2006)
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