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Dear Colleague

This is a call for participation for the Mobile Learning conference to be held in Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 14–16 July 2006, organised by IADIS and co-organised by Trinity College.

Please find the preliminary program below. The 2006 edition of the Mobile Learning conference will comprise two keynote talks from well known world experts:
Professor Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK
Professor Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, University of Michigan, USA
Professor Cathie Norris, University of North Texas in Denton, USA

There will also be a tutorial "DESIGNING CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE MOBILE LEARNING EXPERIENCES" from Professor Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

For registration details please access http://www.iadis.org/ml2006/rates.asp .

If you feel this email might be of interest to a colleague or student please re-send it to him or her. Thank you.

Best regards,
Pedro Isaias
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Piet Kommers and Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez

Here is the Preliminary program:

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Friday 14th, July 2006
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08:30-19:00 Welcome Desk

09:30-10:00 Session O – Opening Session (Theatre LB01)
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Piet Kommers and Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez

10:00-11:00 Session KL1 – Keynote Presentation (Theatre LB01)
BIG ISSUES IN MOBILE LEARNING
Professor Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham, UK

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FP 14.1: mLearning in Educational Institutions (Theatre LB01)

MINI-ME: THE APPLICATION OF AN INTELLIGENT MULTI-AGENT SYSTEM METHODOLOGY IN THE DESIGN OF A MOBILE MANAGED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (F_025)
Elaine McGovern, Eleni Mangina and Rem Collier

GOING MOBILE WITH MOODLE: FIRST STEPS (F_054)
Billy Cheung, Brian Stewart and Rory McGreal

M-LEARNING AND M-TEACHING ARCHITECTURES AND THE INTEGRATION OF E-SERVICES FOR EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT (F_036)
Ivan Ganchev, Mairtin O’Droma and Stanimir Stojanov

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 14.2: Pedagogical Approaches and Theories for mLearning (Room 1.07)

ME-LEARN: PDAS IN THE FACE-TO-FACE CLASSROOM (F_091)
Annette de Jager and Engela P de Crom

USING MOBILE DEVICES FOR REAL-TIME FORMATIVE EVALUATION IN CLASSROOMS (S_046)
Yao-Ting Sung, Kuo-En Chang and Cherng-Cherng Huang

WE’VE GOT IPODS, BUT WHERE DO WE START? THE STORY OF TWO GRADE 4 TEACHERS (S_055)
Doug Reid, Lisa Kervin, Jeff Vardy and Carroll Hindle

INTENTIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR MOBILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (S_135)
Marshall G. Jones and Stephen W. Harmon

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:50 Session FSP 14.3: New Tools, Technologies. and Platforms for mLearning (Theatre LB01)

TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTION OF M-LEARNING GRIDS (F_041)
Mario Muñoz Organero, Carlos Delgado Kloos and Abelardo Pardo

WHAT MAKES COLLABORATIVE EARLY EFL READING EFFECTIVE? A MOBILE DYNAMIC PEER-ASSISTED LEARNING SYSTEM (F_012)
Yu-Ju Lan, Yao-Ting Sung and Kuo-En Chan

BLUETOOTH INTERACTION SUPPORT IN LECTURES (S_023)
Henning Bär, Guido Rößling, Erik Tews and Elmar Lecher

ANIMATION ON MOBILE PHONES (S_077)
Peter Byrne and Brendan Tangney

USING MOBILE PHONES TO IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY OF FIELD WORKERS (S_040)
David Guralnick

PODCASTING: PROBABLY NOT THE BEST COLLABORATIVE LEARNING TOOL IN THE WORLD (S_026)
Andy Ramsden

14:30-16:30 Session FSP 14.4: mLearning in Educational Institutions (Room 1.07)

SMS COLLABORATIVE QUESTIONING: CONVERGENCE OF TASK, INTERACTIVITY AND OUTCOMES (F_060)
Dick Ng’ambi

CREATING LEARNING SPACES FOR MOBILE DEVICES IN THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CLASSROOM (F_066)
Mark Frydenberg

WIRELESS SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION FOR A MOBILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (S_119)
Serena Pastore

TEACHER PERCEPTION OF HANDHELD TECHNOLOGY: PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES (S_078)
Louise Mifsud and Ole Smørdal

CONSTRUCT MATHEMATIC PATH AND INTERACTIVE PROBLEM SOLVING DISCUSSION SYSTEM IN MOBILE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (S059)
Lin-Jung Wu, Hsien-Sheng Hsiao, Kuo-En Chang and Yao-Ting Sung

14:30- TUTORIAL (Room 1.20)
DESIGNING CREATIVE COLLABORATIVE MOBILE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:50 Session FSP 14.5: mLearning in Developing Countries // Informal and Lifelong mLearning (Theatre LB01)

A MODEL OF MOBILE LEARNING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (F_017)
John Traxler

MLEARNING FOR INDIA: ANY POTENTIAL? (F_092)
Bardo Fraunholz and Chandana Unnithan

A BLENDED M-LEARNING DESIGN FOR SUPPORTING TEAMWORK IN FORMAL AND INFORMAL SETTINGS (F_064)
John Cook, Debbie Holley, Carl Smith, Claire Bradley and Richard Haynes

USING MOBILE DEVICES FOR LEARNING IN INFORMAL SETTINGS: IS IT MOTIVATING? (S_134)
Ann Jones, Kim Issroff, Eileen Scanlon, Gill Clough and Patrick Mcandrew

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Saturday 15th, July 2006
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08:30-16:00 Welcome Desk

09:00-10:00 Session KL2 – Keynote Session (Theatre LB01)
TECHNOLOGIES THAT MOTIVATE CHILDREN TO LEARN
Prof. Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
and Prof. Cathie Norris, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

10:00-11:00 POSTER SESSION (Room 107)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Session FP 15.1: mLearning in Educational Institutions (Theatre LB01)

ANALIZING MOBILE LEARNING ISSUES IN A HIGHER EDUCATION CONTEXT (F_013)
David Roldán Martínez and Félix Buendía García

CLOSED LABS IN THE COMPUTER SCIENCE CURRICULUM – MOBILE WIRELESS VS. CLASSIC DESKTOP BASED (F_037)
Mikhail S. Brikman and Edward J. Wilkense

AN OVERVIEW OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR LECTURE CASTING (F_133)
Wolfgang Hürst and Wolfgang Waizenegger

11:30-13:00 Session FSP 15.2: Creativity and mLearning // Gaming and Simulations in mLearning (Room 1.07)

HOW CAN ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS FACILITATE COLLABORATIVE PROBLEM-FINDING IN THE INNOVATION PROCESS? (F_069)
Mikko Ahonen and Antti Syvänen

LEARNING TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC USING A PDA (S_027)
Bryan Duggan

SOLAS: AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT TO FACILITATE SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY AND CREATIVITY (S_030)
Paula Hicks, Gordon Power, Graham Woods and Jane B. Grimson

MGBL MOBILE GAME BASED LEARNING (S_018)
Otto Petrovic, Christian Kittl, Francika Markovic and Hans Joerg Peyha

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-15:10 Session SP 15.3: Speculative Ideas in mLearning: Where Next? (Theatre LB01)

SILENT TEACHING, SILENT LEARNING? THE LACK OF SOUND IN CONTEMPORARY MOBILE LEARNING (S_057)
Henning Pätzold

TRUST SOLUTIONS FOR DISTRIBUTED LEARNING ENVIROMENTS (S_074)
Pierpaolo Dondio, Stephen Barrett and Stefan Weber

14:30-15:10 Session SP 15.4: Collaborative, Cooperative and Contextual mLearning (Room 1.07)

MOBILE TECHNOLOGY TOWARDS OVERCOMING TECHNOLOGY & TIME CONSTRAINS IN DIGITAL VIDEO PRODUCTION (S_093)
Inmaculada Arnedillo-Sánchez and Brendan Tangney

AWLA LANGUAGE TOOLS: INTEGRATION AND HYPERTEXTUALITY IN A UBIQUITOUS COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (S_116)
Manuel Ortega and Pedro P. Sanchez-Villalon

14:30-15:40 Session FSP 15.5: User Studies in mLearning (Theatre LB011)

ACCOMMODATING SPECIAL NEEDS USERS IN THE EVALUATION OF AN M-LEARNING APPLICATION: A CASE STUDY (F_020)
Rock Leung, Jo Lumsden and Jane Fritz

PROJECT UBIQUITOUS: MOBILE LEARNING OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LIVES IN PERIPHERAL REGIONS (S_102)
Marco Sassi and Lara Sosio

MOBILE LEARNING APPLICATIONS IN WIRELESS CLASSROOMS – STUDENTS SURVEY (S_051)
Devinder Singh and Zaitun Abu Bakar

15:45 Tour and Conference Dinner

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Sunday 16th, July 2006
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08:30-15:00 Welcome Desk

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.1: New tools, Technologies and Platforms for mLearning (Theatre LB01)

PRESENTATION OF TEXT-BASED LEARNING CONTENT ON MOBILE PHONES USING RAPID SERIAL VISUAL PRESENTATION (F_067)
Björn Hedin and Erik Lindgren

INKA: USING FLOW TO ENHANCE THE MOBILE LEARNING EXPERIENCE (F_080)
Daire O’Broin and Siobhán Clarke

INTERACTIVE E-LEARNING ENVIRONMENT USING MOBILE PHONE MESSAGES (S_052)
Toshiyuki MAEDA, Tadayuki OKAMOTO, Yae FUKUSHIGE and Takayuki ASADA

MOBILE EM DETECTOR (S_121)
U.Puthiyavan

CLASSIFYING MOBILE GAMES AND THEIR APPLICABILITY TO DIFFERENT LEARNING SITUATIONS AND TARGET AUDIENCES: PRELIMINARY RESEARCH PHASE IN A EUROPEAN PROJECT (S_143)
Alice Mitchell

09:00-11:00 Session FSP 16.2: mLearning in Educational Institutions (Room 1.07)

M-ECO-LEARN: THE EVOLUTION FROM PAPER TO PDA IN ECOTOURISM FIELD WORK (F_088)
Nellie de Crom and Annette de Jager

THE MOLES AND MINI MOLES SOFTWARE SYSTEM: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN INDOOR AND OUTDOOR LEARNING (F_115)
André Melzer, Lia Hadley, Marie Glasemann and Michael Herczeg

THE MOBILE WIRELESS CLASSROOM: POCKET PCS IN HIGHER EDUCATION (S_011)
Christopher J. Dechter

LEARNING ON THE GO: CAN AND WILL LEADERS LEARN BY LISTENING (S_070)
Kathleen M. Schulin and Mary S. McCully

MOBILE CAMPUS USING SYNC4J (S_137)
Grégory Hervé

9:00-10:50 Session FSP 16.3: Collaborative, Cooperation and Contextual mLearning (Room 1.20)

CREPES – TOWARDS A COLLABORATIVE MLEARNING PLATFORM LEVERAGING ALGORITHMIC UNDERSTANDING IN SCHOOLS (F_136)
Patrick Gratz, Steffen Rothkugel, Ingo Scholtes and Peter Sturm

LANGUAGE LEARNING: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR MOBILE COMMUNITY BLOGS (F_089)
Sobah Abbas Petersen, George Chabert and Monica Divitini

SUPPORTING THE LEARNING PROCESS IN THE CLASSROOM USING 3D COLLABORATION ON MOBILE DEVICES COLLABORATION ON MOBILE DEVICES (F_090)
Helmuth Trefftz, Omar Gómez, John Trujillo and Edwin Montoya

I, MLEARNING: IDENTIFYING DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE LEARNING SYSTEM (S_071)
Marie-Claude Lavoie

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 16.4: New tools, Technologies and Platforms for mLearning (Theatre LB01)

HOW CAN EDUCATION THROUGH ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD EMPOWER SCHOLARS, SIBLINGS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS? (F_029)
Ian G. Kennedy and Rex van Olst

PHYSICAL OBJECT INTEGRATION AND LEARNING PLATFORM IN HOME AUTOMATION (F_126)
Mickaël Garon and Florent Carlier

GEOBOOK: ENHANCING MOBILE LEARNING WITH GPS AND MULTIMEDIAL BOOK (F_127)
Claude Moulin and Andrea Piras

ON DEVELOPING AND EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF MOCLES: A MOBILE COLLABORATIVE E-LEARNING SPACE (S_101)
Ramli Kalamullah and Priwanto Radytya

MOBILE PDA COMMUNICATION OF FINANCIAL ANALYSIS: LESSONS FOR LEARNING (S_082)
Scott D. Stewart

11:30-13:10 Session FSP 16.5: Pedagogical Approaches and Theories for mLearning (Room 1.07)

PEDAGOGY OF PODCASTING: MOBILIZING THE TOOLS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURE FOR A NEW GENERATION OF LEARNERS (F_142)
Jeannine Hirtle and Christopher White

DIALOGIC TEACHING VIA A WIRELESS MOBILE COMPUTING INITIATIVE (S_028)
Maureen Murphy and Nancy Moose

DEVELOPMENT OF MULTIMEDIA LEARNING MATERIALS IN MOBILE USAGE-ACCOMPANYING MEDIA PRODUCTION (S_048)
Gerrit Kalkbrenner

IDENTIFYING AUTHENTIC MOBILE LEARNING IN TEACHER EDUCATION: A DESIGN-BASED APPROACH (S_056)
Anthony Herrington and Jan Herrington

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN WORK AND LEISURE – THE INTEGRATED MICROLEARNING APPROACH (S_144)
Silvia Gstrein

KNOWING WHAT THE STUDENT AT THE BACK KNOWS: A COST-EFFECTIVE CLASSROOM RESPONSE SYSTEM USING SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) TEXT MESSAGING. (S_146)
Seamus Ryan, Paul Mulvey and Inmaculada Arnedillo Sanchez

11:30-13:30 Session FSP 16.6: Collaborative, Cooperative and Contextual mLearning // mLearning in Educational Institutions (Room 1.20)

TEXT FORUM: INCREASING SOCIAL PRESENCE THROUGH REDUCING RESPONSE LAG (S_079)
Bryan Butler and Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez

ENABLING AN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE EDUCATIONAL SCENARIO BY IDENTIFICATION PROCESS (S_034)
Bravo, J., Hervás, R., Delgado, M.L., Parras, J., Teran, F

CUEREG PROJECT: COLLABORATIVE AND UBIQUITOUS EDITOR FOR RESEARCH GROUPS (S_038)
Alfonso López Baca, Javier Martínez Torres and José Raúl Fernández del Castillo Díez

UBIQUITOUS SOCIAL PRESENCE AND CONTEXT AWARENESS FOR MENTORING (SOCIAL SUPPORT) (S_043)
Raymond M. Kekwaletswe and Dick Ng’ambi

MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION - UBIQUITOUS SCAFFOLDING AND SUPPORT FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (S_075)
Paul Hayes, Stephan Weibelzahl and Tim Hall

AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE APPLICATION OF HANDHELD MOBILE DEVICES TO SUPPORT LEARNING IN A THIRD LEVEL ENVIRONMENT (S_117)
David Lenihan, Carol O’Shea and Deirdre Lillis

13:40 Best Paper Awards Ceremony and Closing Session (Room LB01)
Prof. Pedro Isaías, Prof. Piet Kommers and Inmaculada Arnedillo Sánchez