Current State of Mobile Tours Museum audio guides today can be placed into four different categories: 1) museum devices with number pads with manual or automatic activation, 2) personal digital assistants (PDAs) such as the iPhone, BlackBerry and other smartphones with operating systems and Internet connectivity, visual imagery, and manual or automatic activation, 3) mobile phones that are manually activated, and 4) audio files/podcasts that are downloaded onto MP3 players and other devices such as the iPod/ Touch. Do they reinforce a curatorial narrative and order? lives. 2000). MORE >>

I happened upon a tweet last week while trolling my Twitter in-box that heralded a product announcement from Saba for their new " Saba Anywhere " offering designed to make training delivery to mobile workers easy, practical and secure. Instinctively, I reasoned another one of the "Big 10" LMS/Talent Management platform players was finally joining the mLearning party with their own well conceived and highly polished solution for the creation, packaging, delivery and tracking on mobile-friendly content to on-the-go workers via their now omnipresent smartphone devices. Thump ! MORE >>

It all started, Allen says in his blog , when his parents got him an iPod Touch for Christmas of 2008. See, for example, this tutorial on YouTube from Radford University in Virginia showing teachers step-by-step how to create a quiz on the iPod Touch so the class can take the quiz and together go over the results in the same class. Qualcomm has been looking into just that question, funding field research such as Project K-Nect in rural North Carolina, where remedial math on iPod Touches has helped students increase proficient by 30%. Hes not alone. MORE >>

Connected Admin A School Administrator explores the use of technology in Education RSS Feed Home About Do you think mobile learning might work? By Connected Admin , March 20, 2010 Martha Lane Fox discusses mobile learning on the BBC’s Digital Giants series. Here are some quotes from the interview about mobile learning I found on the moblearn blog : - mobile is everywhere! it is about inclusion, as much as about trendy gadgets - ignore it at your peril These points apply to teachers, and teaching too! Of course it works! In Africa. In Europe. In America. In India. In Australia. For young. MORE >>

Connected Admin A School Administrator explores the use of technology in Education RSS Feed Home About Mobile Technology at the University of Washington – It is about the community By Connected Admin , December 27, 2009 The University of Washington has embraced the delivery of mobile content for it's faculty and students. The University serves over 65,000 students, faculty, and staff. The University noticed that around 90% of the 15,000 handheld devices connecting to its network were running the iPhone OS. This led the University to develop it's own app for the iPhone. MORE >>