I am aware dear reader that much of my writings on how learning is handling the inevitable rise of ubiquitous computing centre’s around the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad platform. But in this post I’d like to reflect a little on the other great mobile education movement of the last three years – that of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) ‘children’s machine’. While even the latest version 1.5

Its no secret that I believe touch and gestural-based input will be a big part of the way that the computing we’ve known and used to begin the information revolution over the last 20 years transforms into everyware, ubiquitous computing. Whatever side of the preferred digital platform you sit on, you have to admit that the direction market leader Apple (now the world’s largest mobile device company) is taking is away from traditional desktop and even notebook devices towards direct, touch based interfaces will inspire others to follow.

Welcome to 2010. I feel a bit foolish writing my first 2010 blog entry when the announcement that might define mobile and ubiquitous computing this year is still a week away, but there have been enough early signs from a range of companies to make some assumptions, and speculate on what they will mean for learning that attempts to take advantage them. The previous decade has seen computing move from being desk-based to lap and now hand-based, no doubt about it.

Paul Resta Keynote at TE

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post (see here ) on how to convert a DVD you have bought to a format that can be played on a mobile device. Some of you have tried it already, but there was a question concerning subtitles. If you want to, you can use AVS4YOU to add the appropriate subtitles to your converted format. You follow the steps as indicated in the prior post, up until the moment you make yourself ready to click the convert button.