Windows Phone 7 – all over the place
By Darron | Apps, mLearning, Mobile Devices | One comment so far
I’ll admit that I’m so cheap I do not yet have a smart phone or other cool mobile device for personal use. I want one though, and I know it’s only a matter of time before I’ll have to get one just to turn on the lights in my house–so I study the heck out of them.
Recently, I worked on localizing some elearning modules for Windows Phone 7. I must say that I liked what I saw, and I saw it over and over again as I rolled the modules out into various languages. I love the live tiles and the hubs, especially the People hub with its Facebook integration. The real-time videos of navigating through the various features looked pretty good, and it seemed to zip through. It clearly was designed, as Microsoft claims, for a ‘glance-and-go’ experience that is much more desirable than an app-centric environment. I got very excited about this new look and feel that Windows had produced. It’s a far cry from the Windows-lite Microsoft has been trying to pass off as smart phone OS for the past 10 years, and I was sold.
mLearning Simulation Environments
By Darron | Development Tools, mLearning | No comment yet
mLearning is making its way into many training/learning strategies, whether the mobile learning module is a part of or the entire JIT learning application. It is important to know how the me-learning application will look to the learner. Since most learning modules are developed on desktops/laptops, it’s easy to check the end product on that same machine. And there are development techniques which can ensure the user experience is consistent regardless of platform. For example, publishing to a SWF will give the same experience to learners on Mac and PC because the SWF is platform-independent. There are also bits of code that will tell browsers how to behave so that Firefox and IE, for example, render the same way.
