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The aim of the workshop was to develop a mobile learning activity and supporting resources that support lecturers when teaching, and will assist learners when creating, their own visual interpretation of the character of a location.

The workshop introduced mobile learning with the format being hands-on and practical. Group work and group discussions focused not on how mobile learning can replace current learning activities, but instead about innovative ways in which it might can be embedded into existing teaching and learning practices to address specific needs.

The triangulation and alignment of expected learning outcomes, activities and assessment is known as constructive alignment (Biggs, 2003). Using Wikis such as Pbworks can facilitate new learning opportunities specially when Wikis support and align the instructional expectations of students and teachers.

A new research method:

‘Create a short trailer that captures the character of a location’

 Session One: Skype session

Duration: 2hours

Location: Skype session

Key activities: 

1.  Discussion of Dewey’s function of Art
2.  Cropping a specific area from a large photo

Session Two: mobile learning activity specific to Camden Town

Duration: 3hours

Location: Camden Town

Key activities 

1.  Café discussion
2.  Walkabout and exploration of the location
3.  Collecting and gathering multimedia data using mobile devices
4.  Selecting data and uploading it into a shared user area using Pbworks

Session Three: Flash CS workshop

Duration: 7 hours

Location: Goldsmiths Library

Key activities

1. Workshop exercises that will teach students how to use Adobe Flash CS
2. Introduce an example of a short trailer and then clarify the use of Adobe Flash CS
3. The analysis and selection of data that has been collected in Pbworks
4. The creation of a storyboard
5. The making of a short trailer

 1. Choose one location from five to create a trailer.

• Shoreditch
• Camden Town
• Soho
• Portobello Road
• Covent Garden

2. You will conduct a pre-visit to their chosen location and the surrounding area. They use their mobile devices to log potential stimulus material and resources.

3. You will use mobile devices to collect and gather information or data to support their concept. Students then upload their digital files to an area entitled “eLogbook” in a Wiki space that will serve as a shared resource for the creation of their trailer.

The teacher will use this multimedia format of these environments that are outside of the traditional classroom environment to comment on the student's work, singly or as a group. This format provides the information resources, communication channels, and creation tools required to scaffold and support learners on demand (Johnson & Johnson, 1994; Schoenfeld, 1987).

4. You will produce their own project storyboard (this will indicate how they want to integrate their choice of moving imagery, title animation, photography, and sound from the shared resource by using mobile devices. For example, they can record their own voice).

5. Using Flash CS software students produces a short trailer.