Title of Primary Project Output
CloudBank: Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language Learners
Screenshots or diagram of prototype
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Description of Prototype
20-second-pitch:
"Imagine you are an international student in the UK. Your English is quite good, but every now and then you hear a word or phrase that was missing in your vocabulary. Normally you would take a mental note ... and then forget about it. With CloudBank you can hack it into your mobile phone, add an image or audio recording, and share it instantly with other language learners."
CloudBank enables international students in the UK to collect, annotate and tag interesting or intriguing language- and culture-related content found in everyday life, including text, images, audio recordings and web links. These content items are saved to an online repository, from where they can be syndicated via RSS feeds for inclusion in almost any website, including blogs and profile pages. In addition to syndication, the repository offers a web interface for adding, editing and discussing content in an online community.
End User of Prototype
According to HESA there were more than 340.000 international students enrolled in UK HEI in 2007/2008. Although these students typically have a high level of competence in English language and may not feel the need to enrol on formal language courses, they are still concerned with improving their facility in the language and with the native culture. The goal of CloudBank is to provide an informal and engaging way for students in this situation to share and build their collective knowledge.
User scenario:
Khalil is Jordanian student in the Brighton. He is in the Student Union watching a football game with some English friends. A goal is scored and there is much hilarity over the goalkeeper being nutmegged. Khalil cannot make sense of this: there’s not much connection with the nutmegs of his experience, which are used in cooking. He asks his UK friends what it means to be nutmegged. They explain that it means the striker played the ball through the keeper's legs. Khalil thinks other non-native speakers may be interested in this new nugget of knowledge. He gets out his Android G1 phone, starts the CloudBank app and keys in “to nutmeg: in football: to play through an opponent's legs”, tagging the entry with “nutmeg” and “football”. For good measure he also records an English friend pronouncing the word, and adds the recording to the entry, before sending it to the CloudBank cloud.
This same evening, Keichi, a Japanese student, learns about the term to nutmeg through the CloudBank RSS feed on his profile page. By chance he’s just been watching a video clip of the goal from tonight’s match. He logs onto the CloudBank community portal, searches for the nutmeg entry, and adds a reference to the video clip, so that others can get a better understanding of what it means to be nutmegged.
Link to working prototype
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/download.php
Alternatively, scan the QR Code with yor Android phone:
Link to end user documentation
CloudBank Poster
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/files/CloudBank_poster.pdf
CloudBank Video
http://www.youtube.com/user/CloudBankChannel
CloudBank Presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/marcuswinter/cloudbank-research-seminar
CloudBank Mobile User Guide
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/files/CloudBank_Mobile_User_Guide.pdf
Link to code repository or API
CloudBank REST Server Public API
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/files/API_v0.1.pdf
CloudBank Android Client Code Repository
http://code.google.com/p/cloudbank/
Link to technical documentation
CloudBank REST Server Public API
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/files/API_v0.1.pdf
Cloudbank Android Client
http://code.google.com/p/cloudbank/wiki/Technical_Overview
Date prototype was launched
Prototype v.1 - 21 October 2009
Prototype v.2 - 17 December 2009
Project Team Names, Emails and Organisations
Lyn Pemberton, lp22 [at] brighton [dot] ac [dot] uk, University of Brighton, Project Leader
Marcus Winter, mw159 [at] brighton [dot] ac [dot] uk, University of Brighton, Design & Development
Sanaz Fallahkhair, sf61 [at] brighton [dot] ac [dot] uk, University of Brighton, User Engagement
Project Websites
Homepage (provisional)
http://itrg.brighton.ac.uk/cloudbank/
Project Blog (this)
http://cloudbankblog.blogspot.com/
Code Repository
http://code.google.com/p/cloudbank/
PIMS entry
https://pims.jisc.ac.uk/projects/view/1352
Project evaluation
End-of-project SWOT analysis
http://cloudbankblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/end-of-project-swot-analysis.html
Table of Content for Project Posts
User engagement & co-design
User interface
Users, systems and their models
Co-design session 1
Tools & Development
Mobile Alert Alert
CloudBank on the phone
First prototype
Android XML parsing
Balsamiq trial experience
Information & Integration
Mobile User Guide
REST API Specification
RSS Feed now available
Project video on CloudBank channel
Google Code project page
Website now online
Admin & Management
End-of-project SWOT analysis
Nearly there
Android Haiku
Catching up...
A suitable license for CloudBank
Welcome
Conferences & Talks
CloudBank Poster
Research Seminar
CloudBank at mLearn 2009
CloudBank in the City
CloudBank in Florida
CloudBank off to Handheld Learning conference
Publications
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & Fallahkhair, S. 2009. A User Created Content Approach to Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Advanced Language learners. Proceedings of mLearn 2009, Orlando, Florida.
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & Fallahkhair, S. 2009. Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Presented at HandHeld Learning 2009, London.
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & Fallahkhair, S. 2010. Development of Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing for Language Learners. Accepted for WMUTE 2010, Taiwan.
Pemberton, L., Winter, M. & Fallahkhair, S. 2010. Evaluation of a Collaborative Mobile Knowledge Sharing Application for Language Learners. Submitted to EdMedia 2010, Toronto, Canada.
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