In a session led by Thomas C. Schmidt, who is talking about mobile videoconferencing. This is a tool that has not been used extensively, due to lack of bandwidth in the past, but now perhaps the time is ripe to discover how it could be used in real learning situations. Thomas claims that most of the content received by under 25s now comes directly through mobile technology. They are not only a connected generation, but also a mobile one. Thomas is going through a number of constraints, including 'awkward use and crippled language' that plague current useage of mobile technology, distorted pictures, latency, etc.
We are going to have an extended discussion at the end of his presentation, due to the fact that the other two speakers have failed to turn up, and the chair is innovative, intuitive and accommodating enough to realise that people are attending this session because we all know a little about it and are interested in knowing more. At present, Thomas is becoming unbearably technical, with TCP, SIP, IP and other specialised terms ... such as how digital compression works, spatial redundancy, etc.. blah blah blah. We are discussing their definitions, but would prefer to talk about the pedagogical possibilities. No, really we would.
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