Does anyone know if there is a mobility initiative at UTA? Or does OIT have plans for a mobility initiative?
I’m torn between buying a class set of the iTouch or the iPhone for my Computers and Fiction Writing class and would welcome advice. Might OIT support either? Any sign of daLite lecterns or other kinds of support?
I will talk to the folks at UTD who made such a splash at SXSW to see how they are handling things. (Was anyone there for the presentation?) Their locative media works and initiatives are making waves.
cg
I haven’t heard of any mobility initiatives at UTA. But you never know what is being planned in some dark back room in the inner recesses of the UTA bat cave.
I did get to see a presentation at Educause in Austin in February about the results from Abilene Christian University’s mobile program. It made a lot of waves recently when they gave every freshman an Ipod Touch or iPhone for two years straight. It was pretty interesting stuff. Here is the link to more info:
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/MaturityLevelandiPhoneandiPodT/199161
Thanks, Matt. Very helpful.
This is coming from the bat cave next door to Matt’s bat cave and I was planning on discussion with him once I heard back, but the gun was jumped. In leading the migration project to Blackboard, I received this announcement last week.
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Blackboard-Bets-on-Mobile/21949/
I have a call into our rep to discuss.
I know our CIO is eager to go mobile from the admin side of things (e.g. MyMav) and am taking this aspect of academics from the mobile sense. It’s a start.