This presentation was delivered at The Innovation Leicester Conference 2014 at King Power Stadium for the benefit of businesses in the Midlands

1. Mobile devices and
social media:
Leverage the power
Terese Bird
Learning Technologist
and SCORE Research Fellow
Institute of Learning Innovation
Innovation Conference
9 July, 2014
www.le.ac.uk
Photo courtesy of Dave Lawler on Flickr

3. What shall we talk about?
• BYOD yes or no
• Mobile training DIY
• Case studies
• Social media
• Interactive
Dave Lawler on Flickr

4. Let’s try BYOD!
• Send an email to
terese.bird.byod@blogger.com
• And say in the email one positive reason
or one negative reason for allowing
employees to use their own devices for
company business.
• Byodbird.blogspot.co.uk

5. BYOD Premise:
Bring Your Own Device – what’s the idea?
• Employees have their own devices
• Employees have their own devices with
them in every internal & external meeting
• Employees’ own devices are often better
than institutional equipment
• Employees know how to use their own
devices
• Employees can save money by relying on

6. Promise:
How many schools considering BYOD?
‘Tablets and apps in schools’ survey, May 2013
632 UK schools (327 primary, 305 secondary)
(British_Educational_Suppliers_Association, 2013)
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
2012 - 52% 2013 - 67%
Percentage

7. Leicester schools
• “Some schools in Leicester are already supporting the
use of student owned mobile phones in lessons. There
are several drivers that make this a good time for
Leicester schools to investigate an expanded and
strategic approach to BYOD.”(Fraser, 2012)
• Building Schools for the Future Programme
• Network infrastructure
• Digital Literacy
• Write a policy or guidelines
http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk
Photo Creative Commons
by Charles Rodstrom

8. “We lifted the ban on mobile phones last
term because we realised that the
students (some 1600) of them had all got
powerful computers in their pockets and
we just wouldn't be able to afford to
provide all of them with that level of
technology.”
-Graham Parker, Deputy Head and Head of
E-Learning, St. Julian’s School, Newport

9. How BYOD is proving to be cost-effective
• Schools don’t need as many dedicated IT
suites – QEI and NW&H Colleges
• Apps – get employees to recommend
• Camera (can send to Flickr, Pinterest) or
company sites)
• Sound recording (SoundCloud, AudioBoo)
• Voting
http://www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/2012/sep/10/mobile-phones-classroom-teaching

10. QR Codes for exploration and advertising
Photo Tbird –
taken at Centre
for Alternative
Technology,
Machynlleth

11. DIY Ebooks
• Epub files fit the device
• Calibre
– Begin with a Word doc
– Save as htm
– Import into Calibre
– Convert to epub
– Email it or post on site

12. Online training
DIY video, audio,
or text
Put together
online
Wordpress
Edmodo

13. DIY mobile training – case studies
• Theatre for a Change registered charity
• Leicester-Gondar Medical Link

14. Social Media
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Tie everything to company website
• Personal? Corporate? Check policy!

15. Storify: curate tweets from conferences
• https://storify.com/PaulJReilly/media-for-social-
change-unconference-birmingham-ci

16. Conclusions
Mobile learning and collaboration is
the future present
Social media – start small, do
thoughtfully
Make use of free online sites & tools
Terese Bird t.bird@le.ac.uk

17. Thank you!
Terese Bird tmb10@le.ac.uk
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forward/
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