As one Google guy I spoke with recently said, “everyone is thinking about mobile.&# And the newest version of the plug-in is good by most accounts – take a look at what it’s capable of here: Flash Plug-in Running on Google’s Nexus One. Many simulations use Flash, many games available in e-Learning courses use Flash and Flash is used a lot to deliver graphics, animations and different kinds of user experiences that are not able to be produced with HTML, JavaScript or any other traditional web technology. The version that will run on devices is 10.1, MORE >>

Mark Power A JISC CETIS blog Contact Subscribe Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Augmented Reality - A Game Changer in Mobile Learning? and “it’s not a game-changer, it’s a fad!&#. It’s an exciting technology and one that - like Cameron’s 3D in cinema - will be a game-changer (imo), not simply a fad, given the opportunities it will open up to enable and enhance the immersive delivery of rich content to mobile platforms. No, not Cloud Computing. Still. As with anything though, it’s not going to happen overnight. Cheers! MORE >>

It's not a game. It's media-based (audio, video, animation) or interactive content (quizzes, games, simulations). Apple iOS, Google Android, Blackberry, etc.) When designing a course for mobile devices we have to make a fundamental decision: are we going to design the course for both smartphones or tablets.or If we choose to support smartphones, we don't have a lot of screen real estate. How do we account for that? If we choose to support tablets, we have a lot more screen real estate. How do we take advantage of that? It's not a calculator of some kind. MORE >>

Pontydysgu – Bridge to Learning Pontydysgu.org Home Blogs Wales Wide Web Working & Learning My Learning Journey Anges Blog Jos Blog WordPress and more Google Goggles – an important tool for mobile work based learning? Is Google running short of imagination. But Google Goggles – who thought that up? You merely point your Android phone at an object – a building, an object, an artefact – and it produces search results based on the image (Google say they will be porting it to other platforms in the future). Tags: Google Goggles MORE >>

HTML5 web apps might be ideal for consumer-centric marketing efforts, mobile games and some social tools but these experiences are one-dimensional compared with the full-on, multi-functional mLearning experiences mixing formal and informal interactions, performance tools, ready access to information and experts, gaming systems and more. It was no surprise to many of us that Facebook was the most heavily trafficked web site in 2010 and displaced Google for the first time in many years. Google surprised everyone by buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5B a.k.a. Bullseye! MORE >>