the joy of educating during a time of rapid technological change. I’m retiring in 5 years, so I’m not going bother with technology.”. Thank goodness that one of the benefits of the technology that so many educators still shun is that we can now access other colleagues via Facebook and Twitter who feel the same, but just as what is still most needed across nearly all Education sectors is not necessarily more money, but a total mindset change, so can we who are charged with leading change benefit from turning around our thinking. I’m presenting the following paper. MORE >>

Login Get your own Posterous » Living in the 4th Screen Exploring the use of mobile technology in education and life Employment: I am an assistant principal at a public high school. For six years before that I was a district technology coordinator. Education: BA in Mathematics - The Kings College, Graduate Certificate in Instructional Technology - Georgian Court University, Masters Degree in Educational Leadership - Fairleigh Dickinson University Interests: Mobile technology, iPhone/iPod Touch, Tablet PCs, Teaching & Learning, and spending time with my wife and kids. MORE >>

The most comprehensive listing of conferences for learning technologies is the one produced by Clayton Wright. Here are all the conferences on Clayton’s current list related to mobile learning: February 7-10, 2011 International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security , 4 th , sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Paris, France. June 20-24, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 12 th , Lucca, Italy. For a copy see: [link]. link]. link]. link]. link]. link]. MORE >>

the wireless scale in combination with iPad/iPhone ). mLearning technology medtronic health mhealth diabetes BYODSince March 2011 I am a diabetic type 1. This means that my pancreas is no longer functioning and I have to take 4 insuline shots per day (Novorapid and Lantus (glargine)). In the past 6 month I have bought a Continued Glucose Monitor (CGM) produced by Medtronic. The CGM enables me to keep an almost real-time overview of the glucose in my blood. The CGM has greatly improved my ease of mind. And the model can in itself be used as a generic mobile health (mHealth) model. MORE >>

The International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM) (Volume 5, Issue 4, 2011) has just published its latest issue. Here is the Table of Contents: Mobile Tourist Guide – An Intelligent Wireless System to Improve Tourism, using Semantic Web. Most of the articles are on mobile learning. Hosam El-Sofany, Samir Abou El-Seoud). How to Improve the Accessibility and Reduce the  Total Cost of Ownership with Ecolig Protocol and Android in Mobile Learning. Samira Muhammad Ismail, Paulo Victor De Oliveira Miguel, Gilmar Barreto). Nevena Mileva). Kwang B Lee). MORE >>