Be sure to c heck out this site as it offers a brilliant mobile taxonomy that can be quite useful for institutions considering offering a mobile suite of educational services. Mobile services taxonomy. Michael Sean Gallagher ?? ?? ? ? ??? don’t champion it all that often as I have always been of the belief that technology equates to utility so if the utility doesn’t become apparent in a few heartbeats, I generally discard it. Learning with a phone? Sending shivers down institutional spines the world over. But it is the future and there is no escaping it. Immediately.

Attendees with their beloved iPhone 3G handsets hoping to hook up with friends, find the next party or access Twitter to announce their location are encountering dropped calls, unavailable service or molasses-slow web access from the mobile service provider. e-Learning Stuff news and views on e-learning, ILT and tech stuff in general… Home About James Clay New Stuff Old Stuff Increase in mobile internet The Guardian reports on the surge in mobile internet use: Google UK today revealed that mobile internet use was surging thanks to the Apple iPhone. Blog at WordPress.com.

Real customers prove theres finally a market for mlearning platforms and tools, custom content development and related value added services. mLearning Trends Personal blog of Robert Gadd, an mlearning solution designer and gadget techie/junkie. Robert is President & Chief Mobile Officer for OnPoint Digital, a Georgia-based ISV developing online and mobile learning solutions for the enterprise. Review our company web site at www.mlearning.com. new stories, technical advances, market trends) that shaped the "mlearning marketplace" in 2009. Market Activity/Consolidations.

Start with Student-focused services for maximum impact &to get used to the technology, set up support infrastructure & help desks,etc. portfolio Brett Bixlers online professional portfolio. Sign In Home Blog About Me Leadership Education Activities Résumé Quests Goodies ELI 2010 Spring Focus Session on Mobile Learning By BRETT ALAN BIXLER on March 8, 2010 3:38 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks The ELI 2010 Spring Focus Session on Mobile Learning was held 3-3 to 3-4-10, from noon to 5 PM EST both days. These are Adobe Connect recordings of the sessions.

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Its now possible for families to afford a $300 device, much cheaper than a flat-panel television set, and the cost of wireless connection to watch online services like Hulu and Netflix. the lamp posts and the other features of the streetscape could have informational services. main | sidebar Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org "Courage cant see around corners, but goes around them anyway." - Mignon McLaughlin Home Profile ShareMore! If not, how often do you think students need access to computers?" This idea of ubiquitous technology access is occurring, whether by design or not.

Search EdCompBlog Blog Archive ▼ 2009 (59) ▼ April (3) We interupt this service. skip to main | skip to sidebar EdCompBlog Thoughts about Educational Computing from a lecturer at Jordanhill, the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow - Scotlands largest Teacher Education Institution. Friday, March 27, 2009 CAL 2009: Mobile Learning Captured live at #cal09, posted late. Context sensitive mobile learning: Adding relevant information on the move to objects and activities to augment understanding Carl Smith*, John Cook, C. Bradley; London Metropolitan University CONSENS project.

Badges | Report an Issue | Privacy | Terms of Service. Ning Create a Ning Network! Sign Up Sign In The Future of Education Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World Main My Page Interviews Previous (Recorded) Forum Members Media Photos Videos More Events Groups Blogs Alerts All Blog Posts My Blog Add a Blog Post Mobile learning Posted by Tim Tabuteau-Harrison on April 29, 2010 at 2:30am View Tim Tabuteau-Harrison's blog Having a project in my school investigating how smartphones can be used in teaching-learning process. Create a Ning Network! Awsum!

The smartphones and service are free of charge to the students and their schools due to a grant provided by Qualcomm, as part of its Wireless Reach™ initiative.&# skip to main | skip to sidebar Successful Education Your health may not be everything, but if you lose it, everything soon becomes nothing. Sunday, July 26, 2009 Wave of the Future: Cellphones as Instructional Tools While scanning over the July 15, 2009 Education Week,an education newspaper,notice for an upcoming webinar sponsored by Sprint caught my eye. The topic: Cellphones as Instructional Tools intrigued me.

Toward interactive mobile synchronous learning environment with context-awareness service.  Skip to content Taking Teaching Further Evaluating emerging technologies and their teaching implications in higher education Contact Contributors Feeds Why Log In Register Categories: Design LMS News Pedagogy Podcasting Research Reviews Tutorials Mobile Learning: A Springboard Discussion Background As our office has been researching mobile learning, we decided to discuss it and record the discussion to see what happened.  What we discovered sounds like a typical reserach paper at the end.  2006).

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There are many learning industry practice leaders who believe that Apple's iPhone has jump-started the long-anticipated adoption of mobile devices, products and services for learning and performance support. The blogs and news feeds have been filled with news from yesterday's  Apple's press event during which the iPhone 3.0 was announced and profiled. Therefore, yesterday's press event announcing a new iPhone version certainly attracted the attention of many of us from the elearning side of life who like to keep an eye on what the mobile tech leaders are doing. units in 2008.

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However, learning from what Apple has done so far and offer the public of services and possibilities, makes it interesting to see how academic institutions have approached this concept and what their experience is with it so far. Students demand constant access to information and knowledge, no matter where they are. As a contribution to this, academic institutions are beginning to use iTunes U sites to distribute digital lessons to their students. This is the pioneer concept developed by Apple. Now they can learn anytime and anywhere, too. And suddenly, any place can be a place to learn.

In five years, very short, we went to "play" with toys in the planning of the future or our infrastructure to allow mobile service in all its forms … I have been involved in mobile learning since 2003 and it is interesting to reflect on how he grew up and was taken on what is really ashortly. Comments Site Log in Sierra Aircard Here you will learn about  Sierra Aircard tips and how to find good information. As someone who has worked hard to introduce mobile learning, I am very aware that the reaction of my efforts went from "what are you talking about?"

Now if I can just talk my boss into buying a half-decent phone for me… Cheers, Paul SBL image manipulation services Says: February 17th, 2009 at 10:30 pm Nice collections… lucybarrow Says: February 17th, 2009 at 11:37 pm Hi Paul and many thanks for your comment. ICT and TLC A blog designed to document new discoveries in ICT, share resources and reflect on the most important part of ICT - the people behind it! Home About BG Portal Flypaper Quest Atlantis Building an ICT-Rich Environment I am very excited to be visiting our City Cite Campus this week! Hope they realise it!)

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Alley Miller 04.06.09.09 / 9pm I tried to log into webtycho using my crackberry (verizon service) and can log in but never get past the “checking classes&# portion of the validation. Doc’s Blog blogging innovation in the way we learn and work in an internetworked world how do you use your mobile computing device to support your learning? There is likely to be a wide range of frequency and types of use of mobile devices in support of learning. wonder how we might be able to accommodate those uses as user needs in the design, development, and delivery of education or training?

Location ( [link] ) is one such service. The Horizon Reports describe the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The report includes numerous links and examples of emerging projects that really push the boundaries.  These two apps could serve as models for us, to tie our catalogues of stamps, forms, fabrics and so on, to our phones.

Comments are reviewed before posting to ensure they are on topic and do not promote commercial products or services. In “ Mad City Mystery ,&# fourth- and fifth-graders role play as doctors, government officials and environmental scientists to determine the cause of death of one Ivan Illych. It’s always good to know your local game designer has a sense of humor, and a literary one at that.) [ Watch Mad City Mystery in action. As the game story goes, Illych was depressed, drinking heavily and fell into a lake – but there may be other factors pertaining to his death.

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This free spam reporting service works on all the major carriers in the United States. Mobile messaging is one of people’s preferred ways to communicate with friends, family and their favorite organizations and companies. Because mobile messaging is regulated by carriers and industry watch groups, the incidence of spam on short codes is extremely low. As a consequence, messaging is remarkably spam-free compared to other popular communications channels, like email. However, sometimes spam does sneak through. Short Codes vs. Long Codes. What to Do If You Receive Spam. All Posts Blog

Since then, and resulting from a series of key improvements to the service, we have a tool that can be shaped and molded to whatever the need may be. It’s been almost 5 years since Twitter came into existence and it has become quite the versatile platform. remember when I first joined Twitter 4 years ago, there were heckling comments abound about ‘tweeting’ and how people didn’t care to know someone’s ever movement. an information gateway where teachers can stay current with the cutting edge as it happens and is discussed. hashtags, lists).

As the press release describes it, Launching this week, an innovative bilingual text messaging service will provide consumers with tips, facts and news about accidental poisoning prevention in both English and Spanish. For the first time ever, consumers who opt-in to the service by texting the word TIPS or PUNTOS for Spanish to 69866 will receive one tip each day during National Poison Prevention week and then once a week for the rest of the year. Get timely tips about preventing poison sent straight to your phone. The campaign launched in National Poison Prevention week in 2010.

At the same time there is an interesting article by The National Safety and Securty Services that gives reasons why cell phones may actually get in the way of or impede safety in schools. NPR has a nice "all things considered" broadcast concerning cell phones in schools. While this broadcast is from 2002, I believe it is extremely relevant for today's controversies over cell phones in schools. The broadcast focuses on the administrative benefits of students bringing their cell phones to school by citing both student and parent "safety" concerns.

It is about libraries starting to take advantage of students' interest in text messaging by providing a library reference service through text messaging. An interesting article came across my email from a colleague of mine in literacy. This is currently being done in Australia, and the nice feature is that the librarians use email to communicate with the text messages since they are more comfortable with email and it is often easier to type quickly. But students can text from anywhere when they need a reference or have a question. It may help lessen the digital divide.

The more I use Google Calendar , the more I think we should just replace all hard copy calendars and those bulky assignment notebooks with the free Google service. The best part is that not only is the Calendar service web-based and allows you to collaborate with others on a Calendar, but it is mobile! Either by texting from your cell phone or using a service called JOTT (where you can create audio posts on your calendar from your cell phone). since they never leave home without their cell phones. 3) You can create new events from your cell phone.

I have been playing with Dial2do for a short while and have found it to be a useful service. While many of my favorite Jott features are now paid services (such as sending a speech to text Jott to my Google calendar or creating speech to text emails that are longer than 15 seconds), Dial2do's services are free and work in a similar fashion to Jott. Science Using Dial2do's weather services, students could track weather phenomenon such as cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, or tilde waves. You can create contacts and groups to send speech-to-text voicemails or emails.

I have posted in the past about messaging services such as Remindr , Dial2do , Jott , Remember the Milk , and Sendible. But I have to add another messaging service to this list. All of which I think are useful. It is called Notifu. Notifu allows for group messaging, polling, and FEEDBACK! That is correct, I said, feedback. Notifu allows you to send a message to a person's perferred form of communication such as IM, Twitter, email, or Text Message. For example, I sent out a poll to all my contacts in a particular group asking them what time they preferred to meet.

4INFO is an SMS text messaging service that allows anyone to text a search term to 44636. While I have posted multiple times about my love for ChaCha , a free guided Internet search tool that answers any question from anywhere! am now adding 4INFO to my phone contact list. Then within seconds, they will receive a text back with the search. 4INFO has some built-in categories such as stocks, sports, weather, news, airline info.etc. 4INFO also allows you to create custom searches, reminders, and alerts. Business Classes I love the stock market search options on 4INFO!

The entire service is voice activated, so you ask for the news you would like to hear such as "political news" or "sports". If you call 408.907.2323 , you can hear the latest news anywhere, anyplace, at anytime. This is a resource called Rocketron. You do not have to create an online account to use the resource, just call the number. Once you call, you can set up your account or just listen to the latest news. You can also ask for "main menu" at anytime to get a list of all the news feeds. Learning Connections Assistive for VI students Immediately I thought of visually impaired students.

Boostup turns the cell phone into a service device, a way to reach out and help others. I recently came across a site called Boostup. The purpose of the site is to help motivate teens to graduate high school who are struggling because of various adversities. It is set up so anyone can send a boost to one of the teens through a variety of digital resources, one option being a text message. think this is a good example of a positive use of student's digital "toys" in order to help others. Text messaging could also be set up by teachers/schools as a way to reinforce positive behavior.

Therefore I wanted to compare a few other tools similar to Jott that allow for FREE speech to text translation/messaging services. The bad news is the one of my favorite resources Jott, is out of beta. This means that some of the best features you have to pay for. While it is not expensive, I am not a proponent of asking students or teachers to pay for resources. Dial2Do I am becoming a big fan of this site. It is quick and easy to use. You call in to Dial2Do, tell them what you want to do ("email" "text" "twitter" "reminder") and then speak your message. dial2do jott ReQall

This can also be a very nice feature for hearing impaired students to be able to participate in voicemail services. While we are familiar with the basic voicemail systems on cell phones and landlines, they are often limited. In the web2.0 world there has emerged new and FREE uber-voicemail systems. Some examples include Grand Central , YouMail , and Amphibian. These mail systems allow for the following; 1) By passing the caller and going right to voicemail. 6) Searchable voicemail messages 7) Caller ID (even from cell phones!). 11) Call Recording on the Fly So how does web2.0

I have often posted about Jott , a service that creates voice to text messages for specific groups of people or individuals. service that will send voice messages to mobile phones in mass at a specific date and time. While I love Jott and am starting to explore AbbyMe, it is important to be aware of all the mobile messaging services and compare them. Another service Sendible is similar expect instead of voice messages it sends text messages to phones at a specific date and time. few days ago I posted about AbbyMe. Sometimes this could be very encouraging to students.

AbbyMe is a mobile messaging service. Multiple people can record messages into one account Students do not need an account to use this service. I recently started using AbbyMe. AbbyMe will call anyone's cell phone (or multiple cell phones at once) with a personal message. There are multiple ways to create mobile messages in AbbyMe. First, you can type in a text message and set a specific date and time to send an audio form of the message to any cell phone (Text to Speech). YIPPEE!). The Pros No Cost! No Text Messaging Charges, since the message is audio. abbyme

For example students could create public service announcements, short skits, or even weekly newscasts. I recently came across a resource called TXT60. This tool allows you to upload and convert any video, or any Youtube/TeacherTube video so that it can immediately be viewed on a cell phone. tried this with one of my favorite YouTube videos called A Vision of 21st Century Student, if you want to view and/or download the video on your mobile phone, you can do so by doing the following steps: 1) Login to your mobile web browser (YES! you do need mobile Internet). txt60

few resources online that provide this service (for a fee) include Museum411 , Guide by Cell , and Spatial Adventures (free 30 day trial). Instead of using one of the pay services mentioned above, students could use YouMail or Podlinez to create the dial-in tour. Visiting local museums has traditionally been a part of K-12 education. Museums have started to take advantage of the growing number of people with cell phones, by providing self-paced tours on cell phones. Student's in a foreign language class could offer to turn the audio English tours into bilingual tours.

Cons: 1) It is only free for 180 days.then it is a small fee to use the service :( 2) Text messaging charges may apply for some. Virtual Art Gallery Since all different types of media can be sent to subscribers, the art department at schools may also find this service useful. Using the resource Mozes , anyone can create a free (for 180 days) mobile campaign. Mozes is similar to TextMarks. The real power of Mozes is that it targets musical groups. Here is how.once teachers create an account with Mozes, they create a mobile "keyword" such as "huronband" or "choralsongs".

While this is a limited example, I have a feeling it will be expanding quickly into many different phone services and across the world. Currently if you have a cell phone you can do the following.read a book, write a book, podcast, Jott notes, create a live TV or radio broadcast, check your google calendar, research information (GOOGL), surf the web (.mobi mobi sites), create a blog, photoblog, videoblog, and now you can -take a class on your cell phone! Japan is the first country (that I know of) to start doing this. It could be a "real world" LIVE classroom! talkshoe Qik

Therefore teachers can have students create ringtones (such as jingles or raps that are content -based), public service announcements, weekly news reports, quick science clay animations that represent a concept (such as Mitosis or Photosynthesis) that are "mobile ready." While there are many sites that allow you to download images and video from your cell phone, such as YouTube, Eyespot, Flickr, Facebook, or MySpace, less commonly known are websites that allow you to upload images, sound, and video into your cell phone. How can this be helpful for the classroom? ukabobs 3guppies

Locoblog is a great example of a blog that documents people and their locations (along with images), but you need Bluetooth and a Smartphone in order to use the service (I know many students will not have a fancy smartphone or Bluetooth). service (Sports Tracker and Run Tracker both have you do this). From a post on Mobile Learning (Thank you Leonard Low!), I got the idea to start researching "loco mobloging" or location mobile blogging, where you can use your cell phone to immediately pinpoint your location on a map and post to the internet. Most basic cell phones will not work.

You can also get mobile data from any country in the world such as who are the mobile providers in a country or how many people subscribe to mobile service. One of my favorite blogs is called Mobile Active. The site is devoted to topical issues concerning ways that social organizations and citizens are using their cell phones globally to advocate for a cause. believe this is a great example of a site that believes cell phones can have a large impact on society for the good. This site really inspires many of my ideas concerning student activism projects. mobileactive

You can also embed polls into a PowerPoint presentation (they will automatically be updated as long as you have Internet service) and the results can be exported (for students studying statistics and graphical illustrations this may be useful). I have written before about trying to find a way for basic cell phones to replace the expensive classroom performance systems (CPS). Last week I posted about Wiffiti , an instant brainstorming tool that uses cell phones like CPS clickers. Now, I have found another web2.0 that works in the same fashion as a CPS tool. It is called Polleverywhere.

You will be given an email address where you (or your students) can send mobile pictures (using any basic cell phone SMS service) to your private or public (you decide) Flickr photo account. Have you tried your Flickr mobile account yet? If not, you may want to activate it. You can easily activate it by logging in to your Flickr account and clicking on Uploading Tools Email. What is this so great? But the best part about Flickr is that Flickr couples with so many other web2.0 applications. Then they can send them to the class Flickr account. Here is a short list of web2.0

Reqall is a free web-based service that allows anyone to call (U.S., Since you can only record for 1 minute, it is not a service for long interviews or practicing debates, just notes, reminders, and quick oral language practice. Canada, or UK) a number (1-888-973-7255 for U.S./CA), CA), and you can then say your message reminder to yourself. ReQall gives you up to 1 minute to say your message. ReQall will transcribe your message to text and put it in your private file on the web. ReQall is very similar to Jott. Currently ReQall does not do this. jott ReQall

One additional feature that many of these sites has is the ability to send segments of a particular show or Cellecast calls them "cell grams" to anyone else on their phone (recipients do not need to be registered with the service to do this). Lately I have come across a few different websites where you can listen to your favorite radio shows for free on your cell phone. You dial in a number (for example you can call Lexy radio at 415-692-4933), where you can select from a menu of shows OR you can create a "playlist" online or by phone and listen to your favorites at anytime.

Similar to Feedm8, converts any blog into a website that is viewable on any cell phone with Internet service. In the past I have posted about a resource called Feedm8 , where you can make anything with an RSS feed into a legible mobile website. Feedm8 does this by giving the site a mobile address. While I do like Feedm8, I have taken another look at a free site called MoFuse. My mobile address for this site is [link] (feel free to try it out on your phone). Here are a few. 1) Analytic Tracking the number of viewers, subscribers, devices used to access the mobile page. All access!

My only issue with Google SMS is that the "keyword" is set up by Google, and thus you have to remember a vast number of "keywords" to use the service. Many educators have posted about the benefits of using Google SMS to help students with reference needs such as translation, weather, local information, stocks, currency exchange rates, and more. Recently Lisa Nielsen wrote a wonderful post about what Google SMS can do and how the tool could be useful in education. For example if you want information about converting currency you have to text Currency Conversion-9 usd in euros.

cool $900 misterlamb:Jeff mentioned that you were looking at teaming up with a service like Study Island, etc. Chat Transcript Jarrod Robinson:ive been using poll everywhere to get student input on the way we tackle the course. The students decide what we learn next Guest4563:my display name is now Guest4790 klmontgomery:Tell Brad Karen Montgomery is always available to help train LOL! klmontgomery:Moodle Cindy Kendall:Any expansion in the exporting ability of data? Liz Kolb:I should have made this 45 minutes Liz Kolb:Love your idea Jarrod! spoke with Jeff Vyduna in Feb. Netbooks?

Udefn SMS Text Message Udefn is a text messaging service where you can sign up for different bots. There are some great FREE resources online that couple with cell phones to allow people to keep up with current events and happenings. While the lucky ones who have purchased mobile Internet can use their mobile browsers to connect with web-based resources, many cannot afford that luxury. As a result there are some great alternatives. One of which is an RSS feed for the webpage(s) of your choice. You can text a keyword (that you create) to get information from the RSS feed(s).

There are many different cell phone reminder services available online. is a reminder service that uses uses semantic technology to translate human speak into an email, text and/or voice reminder. Many of which I have written about. few examples include Sendible , Abbyme , Remember the Milk , Google Cal , ReQall , and Alerts. Recently I have been using Task.fm. This means that you only have to type in your reminder on Task.fm, such as "assignment due at 4:00pm on May 26th". If you like this site, I recommend you emailing Task.fm and asking for a free educator version!!

New Internet SMS and messaging services are proving especially useful to language teachers, turning the focus away from the particulars of language and writing and toward whole language oral output and pronunciation, even at the beginner level. My co-instructor Jeff Stanzler sent me this Educause article about a Spanish teacher who started using Google Voice with his students for oral language activities. While I have been talking about the potential benefits of Google Voice and foreign language, this is the first time I have really seen it put into practice. googlevoice

This is by far one of the best messaging services I have come across. I recently came across the site SendGM , which is set up to send mass group messages (and receive replies) to cell phones (both text and audio) as well as email accounts at the same time! It is an incredibly easy site to use. Teachers can sign up for a free account, add their contact's preferences (e.g. text, phone call, or email), and then schedule a mass message to be sent at a particular time, and select if they want the recipients to reply or respond to the message. SendGM

According to a recent report by Experian Marketing Services, mobile is the most effective means of initiating dialogue with consumers: “Consumers are becoming more amenable to mobile marketing and advertising,” said Bill Tancer, San Francisco-based general manager of global research for Experian Marketing Services. If you want consumers to respond to your messages, you’ve got to go mobile. Marketers should recognize that in today’s digital mobile age, mobile marketing is a two-way communication and both directions need equal consideration.”. And the number’s only getting bigger!

Google, Amazon,Mac etc online storage options reaching the many gigabytes now, many users may not even need much more now than a cheap usb drive and internet connection - all the rest is supplied as a service. Cloud computing then (also called utility computing) foresees that supplying this service will eventually look much like the other utility service providers we take for granted - such as power, electricity and water. by Jonathan Nalder mLearnxyz.net So what does mobile learning have to do with ‘cloud computing’? And just what is ‘cloud computing’? What’s with that?

In part one we looked at how computing may just become a service utility in the same sense as electricity or water, and be accessible anywhere via wireless technologies. This kind of service combined with Google Docs (and similar online ‘Office’-like suites) offering of free online use of productivity and business software, means that the ability to leave behind expensive and over powerful computers for sleek and accessible devices is becoming a possibility for many. Not accessible on a desktop PC you can’t lug anywhere. But is this what we see happening around us? learing+2.0

This looks like a service our readers would be interested in, however, I would like to hear from anyone who has used this service.  Has anyone had a chance to use OnPoint Digital Cellcast ? OnPoint seems to offer an interesting mLearning tool, allowing users to create audio, video, or assessments sent to mobile devices. Click here for more information on OnPoint's Digital Cellcast. mlearning m-learning mobile-learning mobile+learning podcasting iphone apple web+2.0 learing+2.0 eLearning Education for the iPod Generation. mLearning

Do you pay for janitorial services? For those folks who know me, they know I am the farthest thing from an 'environmentalist' and you sure don't want to know my views on Global Warming. With that said, however, I am very much an advocate of conservation, both of resources and of budgets. Have you ever thought how much your company spends to educate employees? Sure, you have your budgets for your trainers, for those who supervise trainers, and the extra time employees spend going to training, however, there are many more costs to consider. What about the time spent training your trainers?

Capture iPhone Screenshots As product reviewers, we at eWEEK Labs find frequent occasion to grab screen shots in order to illustrate the software and services we cover. The PrtScn key is our pal, but not every screen we wish to capture rides on a keyboard-toting device. We've resorted at times to photographing device displays, but those pictures tend to turn out poorly. In previous iPhone tests, we hacked the device to install a screen shot application, of which there were a handful in the unofficial software channels. firmware includes a built-in screen capture function.  learing+2.0

Because Google itself has no interest in desktop computers, Android devices currently link in directly with online services rather than syncing with a home computer as every other mobile OS has always done. Perhaps forward thinking education departments need to start planning a cloud-computing based model for getting out content and services to its students. By Jonathan Nalder of www.mLearnxyz.net As most geeks would know, the Google-developed mobile OS known as Android had its public unveiling last week. What does this mean for education? There’s a few interesting years ahead!

It were featured on the BBC for the second time: I was interviewed on the World Service radio programme Digital Planet ( listen live ). June was a good month for m4Lit. The episode featured other interesting ICT projects in Cape Town — definitely worth a listen. The World Bank’s infoDev programme held it’s annual symposium in Washington DC and I was invited to sit on a panel to discuss the m4Lit project. The symposium was called Clean Green and Mobile – Making Technology Work for the Poor. There was a high level of interest in the project and it’s findings.

We now have a platform to run Yoza, a team that can offer full-service mobile content campaigns, and a MXit footprint in South Africa and Kenya, with plans to grow into other countries. We are well-placed to transition from Yoza the “cellphone stories library&# to Yoza the “mobile social marketing service&#. This is my “brag pack&# for 2010. Read the one for 2009. What I did. As fellow for 21st century learning at the Shuttleworth Foundation I spent the year focusing on my m4Lit , or mobiles for literacy, project. What worked. “Gr8 story guyz. Future plans.

Udefn SMS Text Message Udefn is a text messaging service where you can sign up for different bots. There are some great FREE resources online that couple with cell phones to allow people to keep up with current events and happenings. While the lucky ones who have purchased mobile Internet can use their mobile browsers to connect with web-based resources, many cannot afford that luxury. As a result there are some great alternatives. One of which is an RSS feed for the webpage(s) of your choice. You can text a keyword (that you create) to get information from the RSS feed(s).

But is taking some stick on its forums for the pricing that follows the free 14 day trial… US$10 a month or US$99 a year – and everyone in a team needs an account (there are some discounts for additional team members, like 5% per member added). I’m thinking that they may reduce/ change their payment model (hopefully) based on all the feedback they are receiving… Jonathan Nalder. www.jnxyz.net. |. link]. Twitter: @jnxyz | Slide2Learn guide, events & community [link]. Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous. uLearning

The online tutorial site for Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and a host of other software has been around for a few years and continually updates their massive database with new tutorials as products and services are released. Haven’t stumbled upon Lynda yet? The website reads:  &# We’re here to help you better understand and maximize your software, whether you want to build your business, improve your job skills, or simply want to learn more for personal enrichment&# and offers both personal and corporate memberships. The eLearning Coach review. Opinions and Reviews blog review. Industr

The Mobile Learning Edge Home About Contents Resources Apps & Content Assessment Associations Authoring Tools Bibliography Blogs Collaboration Conferences Consultants Content Creation Games & Sims Hardware Information Sources Learning Management Mentoring Presentation Skills Researchers Services Social Media Videoconferencing Buy the Book Reviews for The Mobile Learning Edge by Gary Woodill on November 15, 2010 The Mobile Learning Edge has been out for about a month and a half, and has received at least 7 online reviews. WordPress Admin

At Mobile Commons, we provide QR codes as an included service for our clients – and then help define a strategy for the best way to deploy them. QR codes, or 2d bar codes, are a great way to turn static local marketing into an interactive portal to your online universe. For those not familiar, QR codes are the bar codes that can be placed on any printed materials, whether it’s a flier, a bus advertisement, or a point of sale standee. Using any one of numerous free scanning apps, people can scan the code and be immediately taken to your mobile web site or other digital material.

As part of the Sunday Service we are delighted to be hosting a series of inspiring talks from some of the world’s leading teachers and practitioners who are using mobile, video game, social media or other affordable and disruptive technologies to improve the quality of learning. Teachers with Tech. link]. International Examples of Best Practice. 11:30-18:30 Sunday January 9th 2011. During these quickfire 20 minutes talks practitioners will share their passion, practice and experiences. Posted via email from Jonathan Nalder’s posterous.

They use our service for targeted advocacy alerts and get-out-the-vote efforts, and as an information hub for live events and house parties. At Mobile Commons, we make it easy for our clients to provide the information and services that create that kind of engagement. By focusing on providing information and services, organizations can build long-term relationships with their customers and their constituents. Mobile marketing is a great way to raise money – but it also can do a lot more. Asking for mobile donations or sending out coupons can spur giving and drive purchases.

The worry is that the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will apply the lessons learned from the wired Internet (i.e. they just provide all access at a standard price and speed, but they could make more money if they had multiple tiered systems like they do for cable television) to the mobile and wireless Internet and the services that go along with that. As I stated earlier, learning content comes in all sorts of forms and sorting those forms out from other forms of content would be extremely difficult service providers.

The Service Textmarks.com is a web site that provides (free and for a fee) SMS gateway services. This is a fancy name for a service that provides the ability for you to broadcast text message alerts or provide a send and query function via a cell phone. Testmarks.com also provides a for fee service which goes far beyond alerts and send to query text messages. The most important thing for us is that they have a free service that lets you try their services out. would see them text messaging before, during (to my dismay) and after my class.

Dedicated to the discussion of mobile learning Home About Gary Marrer – Profile Contact the BlogMaster mobileDot Using Mobile Freebies … continued I f you read my blog last post you learned about a free SMS gateway service called textmarks.com. From this keyword, a broadcast alert service could be utilized by students to subscribe to text messages related to one of my online classes. tweet is a single micro blog message that is published to the Twitter service. We are more interested in some of the SMS text messaging services built into twitter. twhirl ).

Moblogging refers to the ability to send a MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service – a message containing media content such as images, video or sound) to an email or web address or telephone number, and have the content automatically and instantly displayed on a web page.  This includes things like references, databases, e-books, and documents or media stored on either the mobile device itself, or a remote service such as on the Internet.  Our team finds it useful to classify mobile learning opportunities into Record , Recall , and Relate tasks.  Ubiquette. learning device for $60.

Rather than use a mobile phone (which would have taken ages to type messages into with the little keypad) we used a service called BulkSMS ([link] Once you’ve created a profile, it allows you to create and store recipients, recipient groups, and saved messages. And it’s quite cost-effective: using the standard (not economy or premium) service level, SMS messages cost about 8 cents each to send out, and messages arrived at Australian phones almost instantaneously, despite the service being based overseas. Please Turn Your Mobile On. Ubiquette.

wireless have the potential to improve the connectivity of mobile devices and competition should help reduce the cost and improve the performance of these services in future. Mobile Learning An Online Reflective Journal on Mobile Learning Practice Home Winksite Store Resources About Mobile Contact Technical Parallels with Computer-Based Learning 19 05 2006 I’ve noticed similarities between current trends in mobile learning, and those that were shaping computer-based learning less than 10 years ago. Currently, a 2GB SD Card (for a PDA or mp3 player) also costs around A$300.