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I was recently fortunate enough to be able to present at the Innovative Technology in Schools Conference in Brisbane on the topic of mobile learning. the attendees seemed to have a great time discovering what possibilities mobile devices hold for education. Imagine my excitement at having a set of 30 iPod Touch’s available for the participants to learn on! This was a chance to show what the combination of current developments like ubiquitous mobile devices, wireless connectivity and cloud computing (via services like Evernote) will mean for learning in the near-future. MORE >>

The paper presents a range of considerations for choosing tools, whether as an enterprise-wide acquisition or a single user purchase, and includes a sampling of current tools categorized according to the kind of product they are intended to produce. Good practices and methodologies for HEI (Higher Educational Institutes) using ICT in the different fields of LifeLong Learning (30 October 2010). We collected with different techniques possible Good practices of ICT use in the European Higher Educational arena, and categorised them in 9 territories and 8 areas. MORE >>

I’ve grouped my findings under ‘for students’, ‘for educators’, and ‘for advanced users’ Enjoy: I aim in this section to overview what I concluded was best for use in my school, using these handles: •                 Free, or at least has a free ‘lite’ version. •                 Easy to access, use and install - conditions that are vital for time poor, technician-starved teachers. •                 A good import/export capability - after all the point was to share maps. That way you can cut right to the chase and start downloading! MORE >>

In preparation for a K-12 mobile learning presentation tomorrow in Wisconsin, I have been trying to catch up on my reading. If you would like to see my presentation (minus some videos), I just posted it on SlideShare. The presentation was created and will be delivered using Keynote, but since it would not upload to SlideShare I had to move it to PowerPoint and lost some of the formating. Read the paper here. wiki full of successful stories (or failures) about deployment of ICT in Developing Countries in general, and more specifically using mobile phones available at [link]. MORE >>