An Experience of M-Learning: Gymkhanas with Android Smartphones III Congreso Escuela 2.0
{jfernandez, grex}@gsyc.urjc.es GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
III Congreso Escuela 2.0, Granada, October 6th, 7th, 8th, 2011
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
c 2011 Jorge Fern´ andez Gonz´ alez, Gregorio Robles Mart´ınez. Some rights reserved. This presentation is distributed under the “Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0” license, by Creative Commons, available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Gymkhanas?
Figure: Gymkhanas are group activities. A challenge has to be solved to obtain the next one.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Scenario
Technology cannot only make organizing gymkhanas easier, it offers new possibilities!
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
LibreGeoSocial and ARViewer
http://www.libregeosocial.org
Figure: LibreGeoSocial: Social network and augmented reality library for Android phones.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
General Architecture
Figure: General architecture of the system, including the technologies that have been used for its implementation.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Administration
Administrating a gymkhana
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Gymkhana Linear Story
Figure: Example of a scenario of gymkhana with several groups and a linear path for challenges.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Gymkhana Round-trip
Figure: Example of a scenario of gymkhana with several groups and a circular path for challenges.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Geolocalizing groups in real-time
Figure: Mash-up with Google Maps offering geopositioning and information of participating groups.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Classifications in real-time
Figure: Table with the classification of the participating groups in the gymkhana.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Responses
Figure: Example of a received response.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Creating a Gymkhana
Figure: Web page for the creation of events (in this case showing a Javascript alert due to the introduction of a wrong format).
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Introducing a new challenge
Figure: HTML form for the creation of gymkhana challenges.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Instant messages
Figure: Instant messages can be sent to participants.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Challenges
Types of challenges
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Text challenges
Figure: Screenshot of a textual response challenge.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Geopositioning challenge
Figure: Screenshot of the presentation of a geopositioning challenge and map with the current position of the participant and the destination.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Photo challenge
Figure: Screenshots of a photographic challenge, before and after the user has selected a picture to be sent as response.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Augmented Reality challenge
Figure: Tagging of a new virtual resource by means of the LibreGeoSocial augmented reality interface.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Experiments
The gymkhana application has been tested three times before being released. Experiment 1: Feb 11 2010 - 8 volunteers. Experiment 2: Mar 25 2010 - 22 volunteers. Experiment 3: Apr 16 2010 - 18 volunteers (San Teleco).
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Some Results
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
“Official” Gymkhanas “La Noche de los Investigadores” - 24 Sep 2010 - 30 users. “X Semana de la Ciencia” - 11 Nov 2010 - 20 users. “Release Party in GSyC/LibreSoft” - 11 Feb 2011 - 15 users. “1a Semana de Obras Libres” - 19 May 2011 - 30 users. “FesTICval 2011” - 29 June 2011.
Organized under the umbrella of the eMadrid project!
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Costs
This is a low-cost activity (given that you have the smartphones). You need one smartphone per group. Although it seems this is becoming a commodity.
Network access: we bought 20 euro pre-paid cards per phone.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Next Future
Create community around the application. Try it out in other environments. Have easy-to-organize (almost ad-hoc) gymkhanas. Move from informal to formal learning (among others, this means working on assessment of the learning).
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Results
New types of challenges made possible by technology. Reduction of human resources. More control on the participating groups. Permanent, immediate and distance communication. Dynamic real-time modification of a gymkhana. Less time to organize a gymkhana. Reduction in cost.
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
Please, use it! It is free software. Available on the Android Market: Search for gymkhana or libresoft Cost: 0 euro / dollar / pound
http://gymkhana.libresoft.es
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho
An Experience of M-Learning: Gymkhanas with Android Smartphones III Congreso Escuela 2.0
{jfernandez, grex}@gsyc.urjc.es GSyC/LibreSoft, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
III Congreso Escuela 2.0, Granada, October 6th, 7th, 8th, 2011
An Experience of M-Learning:Gymkhanas with Android Smartpho