The great aspect of this application is that you can use it with basic text messaging (no GPS or smartphone required) OR you can use it with an iPhone! Most of the scavenger hunt type applications online only use smartphones, so it is fantastic to come across one that is more accessible (since over 60% of cell phone users still have basic phones). Thank you to Jeffrey Branzburg for pointing me towards a resource called SCVNGR. In SCVNGR you can participate in or create your own mobile scavenger hunts. It is very easy to create your own SMS scavenger hunts. SCVNGR MORE >>

Just as geocaching enhanced earlier forms of interpretive tours or location-based hunts to a wider audience, smart phones are pushing the potential of place-based learning into uncharted territory. Utilizing the smart phone’s camera, GPS and real-time connection to a database allow any number of possibilities for a user to walk, point, and interpret. Tags: New Media augmented reality e-learning instructional design ipad mobile devices smartphones iPhone place-based learning smart phone Some of the recent examples of this are most apparent with augmented reality. MORE >>

What could be a more perfect recipe for learning opportunities than the introduction of each new increasingly sophisticated mobile device and the growing numbers of smart phone users worldwide? Tags: mobile devices smartphones mobile learning participation learning developers are clearly eager to apply their ideas and skills in the mobile kitchen and cook up some new mobile innovations. But will mobile learning be fundamentally truly participatory or actually proprietary? Zittrain starts his story in 1890, when the U.S. government commissioned Herman Hollerith to tally the U.S. MORE >>

The tweet I reviewed follows below: Google Presentations are Mobile Phone Ready [link] Indeed, Google's free presentation package does make it easy to produce and deploy a simple interactive presentation to mobile workers but there are several drawbacks to anyone considering using this functionality to send content out to enterprise mobile learners. Having used Google Docs for various business purposes in the past, I thought I'd give this use case another look and confirm for myself what others seemed so interesting in retweeting to the rest of the #mlearning followers. MORE >>

I just read an article titled, “Smartphones Make IBM Smarter, But Not As Expected&# about IBM and Columbia University’s recent study on the behavior and effects of mobile learning within IBM. generally dislike having to learn any new user interface;” – go with established norms “employees seem to prefer fewer options and less information on their mobile phones than would be available on their desktop computers”. Mobile phone users typically have more immediate, goal-directed intentions than desktop users. It was $10 to download. MORE >>