Mobl21

As I am working through planning my IT Alive course, my goal is to provide my students with a range of opportunities to create content for the iPod touch. Thanks to a discussion over at Classroom 2.0, I have discovered a new mobile content creation tool called Mobl21 and I am going to give this a try for my next project.

I will be able to create some example content for my students, but more importantly, give them a chance to publish content themselves. There are a few steps required before you are published, here is an outline.

Firstly, download the free Mobl21 App and install on your iPod touch. You can’t do much with it until you have created a Mobl21 account and some content. There is some terminology to learn to understand how the content hierarchy is structured. At the top level you create a category, which is the largest unit in the course. I have called my first category ‘IT Alive’, the name of the elective this project is contained in. Within this category, I create a series of stacks, which are the different topics included in the elective.

Each stack has a studyguide, like an online book with substantial amount of textual content supported by media files such as image, audio, and video. With a free account, you can also have 10 flashcards and 10 quizzes for each stack you create.

The free account allows you to have 10 users for each group. In a classroom situation, this is quite adequate, as each student creating content for the iPod touch can have an audience of up to 10. For my class content, I have created one group and added the students as users.

Now your new group will be assigned a name, password and content code. So now it’s back to the iPod touch and into the Mobl21 App. Enter these details and you can access the stacks and content you have created.

If you wish to add more users or content, there are some very reasonable paid upgrade plans available.

There is a great FAQ page which outlines everything you need to know. Give it a try. We won’t be starting work on this in class till next term. I would be pleased to hear from anyone who has used Mobl21 in their classroom.

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