Mobile thoughts from University of Bedfordshire

Peter GodwinUniversity of Bedfordshire

May 2010

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Our students

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Need to know more about our students...

Question

Is it good idea to do fixed term projects for high end phones? Most students don’t have these.

What about lower end?

But what does this mean for us in the library?

Idea 1. SMS Reference desk

Idea 2 Screencasting, podcasting and vodcasting

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Idea 3 QR codes

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QR Code @ Lincoln C

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“The nature of search in this new world of mobile Internet devices will shift. This is because the journey that Generation Y is taking on the Internet is more concerned with social expression than finding information”

(Taptu White paper Feb 2008 “Making search social for the mobile generation”)

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This is just the beginning!Mobiles foster active learning techniques catering for varied learning stylesDon’t underestimate the speed of changeWe want to be among the trend setters and experiment!

Librarians go wild

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