Mobile Learning and Tweets for Keynote

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Mobile Learning

I was in a Mobile Learning training session today (Out Of The Classroom And Into The World: Using Mobile Devices To Enhance Experiential Learning) care of MoLI. Along the way, I accumulated some resources that I will need to dig into later:

  • ARIS  – “an open-source tool for creating mobile learning games, stories, documentaries, place-based learning activities.” Apparently there is a bit of a learning curve, but this looks to be a fun tool for creating energizing mobile learning experiences.
  • Google Fusion Tables – Integrated into Google Docs, and a way of gathering and visualizing data tables.
  • Siftr – A service that maps social photography. At a very rough glance looks a little like a mashup of Google Maps and Instagram. Not particularly well documented, so will have to play with this one.
  • Slides Carnival – A repository of free presentation templates.
Tweets For Keynote

Tweets For Keynote

Part way through I was reminded that I had not used Tweets for Keynote for a while. What once was broken now looks to be fixed. I will have to try this again too…

Open-Sankoré, OpenBoard, and Uniboard

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OpenBoard

OpenBoard

I have quietly been waiting for Open-Sankoré to update and support OS X Yosemite and/or El Capitan. OpenBoard (a fork of Open-Sankoré) works on OS X Yosemite and El Capitan, and looks pretty much identical.

Finding OpenBoard can be a little difficult, but can be downloaded here.

Interesting enough, Uniboard (the software that Open-Sankoré was based on) works in OS X El Capitan. The origin site to download it, however, does not:

http://getuniboard.com

Uniboard can be downloaded from Download.com

So, Uniboard and OpenBoard can both work on recent versions of OS X. My recommendation at the moment would be OpenBoard.