Piloting the ???Talking Tools??? smartphone app: Validating blog content analysis with students´ reflections

Author

Wiklund-Engblom, Annika ; Hiltunen, Kasper ; Hartvik, Juha ; Porko-Hudd, Mia ; Johansson, Mikael

Author_Institution

MediaCity/Fac. of Educ., Åbo Akademi Univ., Vaasa, Finland

fYear

2014

fDate

13-14 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a pilot study of testing a learning solution for smartphones, the Talking Tools (TT), under development. The study targets what, why, and when teacher students (N=11) use TT for microblogging about their work in a sloyd course. Their subjective reflections from a questionnaire using open-ended questions are used for validating earlier analysis of student blogs. Suggestions for teacher guidelines for using TT are discussed based on the findings.

Keywords

Web sites; educational courses; mobile learning; smart phones; TT; Talking Tools smart phone app; learning solution; microblogging; open-ended questions; sloyd course; student blog content analysis validation; subjective student reflections; teacher guidelines; teacher students; Blogs; Documentation; Educational institutions; Encoding; Mobile communication; Reflection; app development; learning process; mobile documentation; mobile learning; pilot study; sloyd; smartphone application;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning (IMCL), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMCTL.2014.7011094

Filename

7011094