MOBILE SERVICES
Mobile learning is learning accomplished with the use of small, portable computing
devices. These computing devices may include: smart-phones, personal digital assistants
(PDAs), tablet PCs, iPods, MP3 devices, USD drives and similar handheld devices.
NUS offers a number of services to support the mobile learner.
Please keep watching this space as we introduce more services to support the mobile
platform.
Mobile IVLE
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launched in 2004
Selected resources and information from our course management system can
be accessed from Mobile IVLE.
We have launched Mobile IVLE and the new URL is
https://ivle.nus.edu.sg/mobile. If you have any comments or suggestions for this mobile platform, do let us know by emailing
us at
Short Messaging Service (SMS)
IVLE SMS –
launched in 2002
Faculty can send course announcements to their class students on IVLE by SMS.
So, if you want to receive urgent announcements regarding your course from your
lecturer, keep you cellular telephone numbers updated on our website. All cost towards
this service is paid by NUS.
To register or update your mobile phone number, please go to
Student e-Services Website
under
Address and Contacts. Your updated mobile phone number will be reflected
in IVLE within a day.
SMS@NUS
SMS@NUS is a short messaging service brought to you by NUS Computer Centre. For
more information on the services offered, access this link
SMS@NUS.
Podcasting
Podcasting is delivering audio content to iPods and other portable media players
on demand, so that it can be listened to at the user's convenience. The main benefit
of podcasting is that listeners can sync content to their media player and take
it with them to listen whenever they want to. Because podcasts are typically saved
in MP3 format, they can also be listened to on nearly any computer.
Podcasting in 4 Steps
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Authors create audio content, and post it to a web server, typically in MP3 format. |
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They publish an RSS file (newsfeed) that contains RSS news items that reference
the audio content. Each RSS item provides meta information about an audio file,
such as the file's name and description, and contains an RSS enclosure with the
URL of the audio file. |
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End-users regularly check for new versions of the newsfeed, using an application
like iPodder. When a new version is found, iPodder reads through it, identifies
the audio file URLs, downloads them and syncs them to a media player.
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Users listen to the "podcasted" audio file when it is convenient.
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NUS Podcast Lectures
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launched in 2006
NUS lectures that are recorded for web viewing are now made into a podcast format.
You can download the MP3 file manually, listen to streaming audio or subscribe to
the podcast feed. Subscribing to the podcast feed offers a more convenient way of
staying up-to-date with the latest lectures, as the audio files are automatically
downloaded to your podcast receiver regularly.
To access our Podcast lectures, login to IVLE.
IVLE Podcaster
Be the first to try out our IVLE Podcaster at
Resource Banks → Multimedia Bank → Media → Create Media.
Mobile Blogs
A mobile blog is a blog maintained by using a mobile device
such as a personal digital assistant or cell phone. It allows you to share and publish
photographs, text and videos that has been captured through your cellular telephone.
NUS Mobile Blog –
launched in 2007
To support the increasing use of cell phones by students, the popularity and ease
of use of blogs, the need to create communities to share, collaborate and exchange
information, we are launching the NUS Mobile blog service. To access the NUS Mobile
blog service,
login to IVLE and click on ‘Communities’ or access the NUS Moblog website at
http://mobileblog.nus.edu.sg