MoMoDC Event - April 16
Let Them Have Mobile Phones
If you think your campus is wired, think again. It's 2007. And campus Wi-Fi, a land line in your dorm room, e-mail alerts are so late-90s. What if you could access all of your campus essentials - course outlines, campus directory, email, campus security, etc. - from your cell phone?
Rave Wireless develops a variety of programs and applications for colleges and universities. The event speaker, Raju Rishi, will discuss how students, campus groups, professors - and even campus security - can use mobile phones to make your college campus a more wired, safer place. Some of those programs include:
- A GPS-based application that enables students, faculty and staff to view the exact location of campus shuttle busses right on their mobile phone. No more waiting in the rain and snow, no more wondering if there's time to grab that cup of coffee before the bus arrives.
- Targeted blast text messages (e.g., safety alerts for a specific residence hall)
- University-created groups where members can participate in group text messaging and polls (e.g., Chess Club)
- Faculty-created groups (e.g., Chemistry 201) that enable students, faculty and staff to view course alerts on their mobile phones, so they never miss a course announcement, even when they are on-the-go. These groups also allow faculty to integrate survey questions into their lectures, to which the students can text message a response in class - those responses are automatically tabulated and provided as a web page for faculty member to display results real-time in class
- Student-created groups (e.g., road trip to the Final Four).
- School email on the phone.
- Student and staff directory.
EVENT: "Let Them Have Mobile Phones," a look at how Rave Wireless is using mobile phones to improve student affairs, campus housing, and academic coursework.
WHEN: Monday, April 16, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: GWU's Marvin Center, Room 309
800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC 20052 - Click here for a campus map
COST: The event is free to the public. Members of the media are welcome to attend the event.
SPEAKERS: Raju Rishi, COO co-founder, Rave Wireless
RSVP: So we can have an idea on headcount, please RSVP: http://www.mobilemonday.net/mm/washingtondc/
SPONSORS: GW's Student Association, Daily Colonial, & Rave Wireless
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