A detail from the exit surveys of just over 1,100 students in my mass comm course, asking about what kind of smartphones they are using, if any. BlackBerry wins by a landslide at this Canadian university.
Smartphones in FILM240X Fall 2011
Strange but true then, considering this data, that my iOS/Android ClassCaddy smartphone app for this course was downloaded 725 times (see chart below). I used MobileRoadie as an app development platform and they do not offer a Blackberry solution, so I expected to see fewer than 300 installs this term. To bridge this BB-gap I designed a mobile-optimized course website containing all the same content as was in the app.
Downloads of ClassCaddy by Device
Related: a video short (below) about mobile students by Brody Hatch (and friends) and filmed in part at the FILM240X Thursday night lecture.
RT @FILM240X @TopsyRT: Connected and Mobile Students http://t.co/qWQ6KWph