1. Electronic Notebooks for out of classroom activities Brian Whalley University of Sheffield b.whalley@sheffield.ac.uk @brianwhalley brianbox.net www.enhancingfieldwork.org.uk/ Derek France, Chester Julian Park, Reading Alice Mauchline, Reading Katharine Welsh, Chester

2. Computers in Fieldwork – Lyngen Alps, North Norway, 1984 Apple II + HDD + Screen + generator

3. Personalised learning? in personal learning spaces? How do we personalise? and in what learning spaces?

4. Trip space Team Space Personal space Knowledge space Other Personal space Educational Spaces … lab, home, library …. Student + Computer (desktop, laptop, ‘netbook’) Student information environment Rich Internet Applications PLE Field space In the field

5. Some people and their concepts Neal Stephenson – The Young Lady ’ s Illustrated Primer (Diamond Age) Douglas N Adams – The Hitch-Hiker ’ s Guide to the Galaxy - ‘ The Book ’ Alan Kay – The Dynabook "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Bill Moggridge Grid Computer

6. My new "slate"* Cheap Light, convenient but....... not easy to back up, exchange information etc... (even with my ‘upgrades’) To some extent this also applies to conventional field notebooks: (*From York City Museum, about £3.50)

7. The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer The Book? Not just yet A developing technology: a disruptive technology.....

8. 8 Disruptive* Devices? Disruptive Technology? Disruptive Innovation? *Clayton Christensen

9. Bringing student studies into the digital age 'You know what a learning experience is? A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' (Douglas N Adams 'The Salmon of Doubt', p274) Digital and Information Literacies ‘Everyone should be able to participate and control their own learning process’ (Knowles 1987)

11. Learning activity Specific interaction of learners with other people, using specific tools and resources, oriented towards specific outcomes Learning Outcomes New Knowledge, skills and abilities. Evidence of This and/or artefacts of the learning process Learning Environment Tools, resources, artefacts affordances of the physical and virtual environment for learning Others Other people involved and the specific role they play in the interactions, e.g. support, mediate, change, guide Identities: preferences, needs motivations. Competencies: skills knowledge, abilities Roles; Approaches and modes of participating Learners An outline for a learning activity, Helen Beetham 2007

12. Integrating technologies Out of classroom activities (fieldwork, library, PRO etc) allow experiential learning, DIL via Tablets (+ apps)

13. iPad use and usage…. And it does not have to be internet connected

14. Book examples (pop) Current examples of recent two texts

15. 15 Field maps and use in the rain 15 and some other things that can be added or used BadElf GPS dongle Airstash external WiFi memory

16. Skitch in Fieldwork Get students to observe, record, think, discuss Imported into a notebook app Imported into Skitch and then annotated

17. Add extra information etc You can let students do the work and then add more information for them You don’t have to prepare p-o-p versions: go digital with Goodreader or Expert PDF

18. and more....

19. Field-mapping aids and apps Precision Earth Notebooks: Notability £1.49 AudioNote £2.99 Skitch free

20. Field measurement etc External laser device £70.00 seeLevel App £0.69 Theodolite App £2.49

21. Adding the ‘digital’ to ‘fieldwork’

22. What can we do with tablets? What can we do? What can’t we do? What would you like to do?