According to the Oxford Internet Institute, the use of smart phones (i.e. mobile phones used for multiple activities ... - such as Desire2Learn ( see here ) are developing mobile functionality with their platforms. As is generally the case, consideration of the medium and its unique attributes is important. Designing Mobile Learning emphasizes this point from the learners perspective: “Before embarking on creation of a mobile accessible course you will want to understand how the learner’s experience changes when they view your course through a mobile device. Mobile devices ...

Although we call mobile devices mobile, in a lot of rural areas this is not always the case. In ITM's ever ongoing ... in rural or low resource areas a complete mobile solution that makes them independent of energy sources and is sustainable. If you know of any mobile/solar packages out there, please send me the link. Or if you know of anybody who has ... can get. The idea of our project is to use mobile devices in remote areas and assure sustainability. Keeping this in mind, a lot of factors influence mobile technology and energy generating technology. We started looking at mobile ...

Great, the first tests with publishing course movies that are deliverable through itunes for mobile devices have been a succes. If more feedback comes in, we can start redesigning more of the courses into mobile content. We even linked the courses to our soon-to-become-official ITM vodcast blog . So that depending on the device (mobile, computer ...) you have, you get the information delivered. The editing of the ITM movie was fun, but I still need to get information as to the copyright. It is nice if something comes together. used soft- and hardware: digital camera (different ...

Nicola just twittered me two interesting mobile posts that added to my previous post on future-of-mobile from this week: One from Kevin Cawley working with Android Google challenge; A presentation of Ron Edwards on mobile learning on the move ; and zong .

Join mobile beta (see below). A very informative session on mobile learning applications John Traxler gave a great overview of the impact of mobile on all societies (have broadcasted it, will put up the link soon) Gabor Kismihok Very interesting pilot case!! blended mobile learning example, things I picked up: Tool: adaptive testing all content based on educational ontology (I need to look up the educational ontology slide) integrated mobile forum in CMS! profs give ... ) Andreas Ua'Siaghail (pax warrior - resolve labs) because mobiles are a personal instrument, it is good to give the ...

... your own list. I have added my Top 10 Mobile Tools for Learning and they are: Opera ... money). Find.mobi http://find.mobi/ mobile search engine delight, but unfortunately only in English for the moment. QIK http://qik.com/ real live streaming right from your mobile. Great for immediate sharing of knowledge or teaching on the go. Socialight Mixtape http://socialight.com/channels/mixtape is a great way to mix/edit your own mobile ... cool QRcode reader that can easily be installed and catches QRcodes quickly and efficiently. Flickr mobile ...

... narratives of workplace skill acquisition using mobile phones". This session was inspiring because her learners were bakery apprentices (so not your average mobile learning crowd, yet a very eager set of learners). Selena is an energetic ... was the fact that her apprentices choose their own mobile social media AND that they were not eager to learn in a classical style before they took up this apprentice role at the workplace. So this mobile learning really went into the real ... learned without being the enthusiastic classical learners (yes, respect). Why did they use mobiles as learning ...

The other day at a presentation, a participant asked me how many companies have adopted mobile learning...was it widespread and if they where behind because they didn't have a full blown mobile learning roll out yet? The answer is that mobile learning is just now starting to get a foothold but it is not widespread by any means. In fact, two separate ... availability of Wi-Fi connectivity, and the increase in screen size on many of the mobile devices. Two external reports ... revealed that only 3%, or six of the 204 organizations surveyed were deploying mobile learning widely throughout ...

Preparing a presentation on mobile learning for a conference 2, 3 October 2007 in New Brunswick, Canada. Getting all ITM's mobile learning projects into a creative, informative presentation takes a bit of time and thought.

Here is one I just started fooling around with on PicoWiki . If I could take a picture of this running on my iPhone with my iPhone I would- I'm just not that limber. The phone display though is nice and readable and the updates pipe through to the Web side quickly.

My blog was not fit for mobile use, but now... The last couple of weeks I wanted to redesign my blog into a nice mobile accessible blog. So I thought I would just put in some CSS and make it W3C compatible and here , a method I ... ingenious Willem Karsenberg got my attention with a post on MoFuse . MoFuse promises to get your blog mobile in 5 seconds. I ... if you check this, the mobile surfers need to click on one additional link before accessing your mobile blog), a redirect which will look if the surfer is watching from a mobile and thus redirects the surfer immediately to the mobile ...

Just stumbled on an interesting mobile platform: www.redhalo.com , I will be testing this platform in the next couple of weeks. Looks easy and nice. I also found a really great personal wiki for mobile devices which works like clockwork on my HTC: Blade wiki . And I made myself member of the eLearning guild to get some extra knowledge on what is out there and to get the ITM mobile projects better known to the rest of the learning developers.

My presentation linking mobile learning and social media that I gave in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. | View | Upload your ...

Debra Polson is a very enthusiastic speaker. She showed showcases of custom mobile games. Debra motivates students to develop mobile games and they love it! All of the examples are about Fun first, then Educational. Examples mentioned: Scape (an urban sustainability education tool), Scoot and Milk (the mobile learning kit), I will focus on this last one. MILK : explore, research, design, publish, play, reflect. (the mobile learning kit) It is written ... using simple web and mobile technologies. In half a day they learn all about botanical gardens, creating their ...

For the mobile enthusiasts out there (and if you have not put in a paper) look below. I am part of the review ... : IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MOBILE LEARNING 2009 Barcelona, Spain, 26 to 28 February 2009 * Keynote Speakers ... background and goals User Created Content & Mobile Technologies: From Consumers to Creators bypassing the Learning opportunity? Over the pass three years Mobile and Social technologies have featured strongly in the Horizon Report series which examines emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning. Mobile devices have progressed from ...

This new little web app is very cool. You set up an SMS to be sent when the recipient enters a certain location area. Of course you define the area and who will get the msg when they enter that area. I love this stuff! That's probably why I like the idea of QR codes too. I can think of a lot things to do with it and they list some of them on their site . But how about welcome msgs for new hires when they get on your corporate campus. I'll let them explain how jotyou works . Or you could just watch their video demo below.

Nicola twittered this great presentation by Joe McCarthy. | View | Upload your ...

Today we decided to redesign the content for our multimedia e-courses without the H.264 codec. It was just not possible to assure a good work flow with this codec, although the quality is obvious.

Lovely work by Heike Scholz and found via  Rudy De Waele . Goes great with the original 2.0 tag cloud by Markus ...

The latest trends in mobile technology and content were given in speed tempo at the conference future-of-mobile.com ... I got updated on some of the trends in mobile design and development. Open standards Because I am a fan of open standards, I really liked Andrea Trasatti of dotMobi. The site of dev.mobi is a mobile developers community with a clear understanding and willingness to work with open standards. He also mentioned the W3C mobile web initiative Linked to ... MobileOK basic test to see whether or not your mobile development project works within the standards. Browser for ...

The Moodle developer Adrian Nicolaiev from Brasil put me on to this astonishing and really easy mobile quiz. So I put this application to the test. Within exactly 5 minutes I put together a mobile quiz that you can download on your mobile. Coming up with 5 questions for my 'Five question quiz' took me the longest. It is an amazing application which is ... reader on your mobile , you can immediately scan the barcode in this post and try it out on your phone. The quiz linked to ... . Mobile Study provides this easy way to build mobile quizzes and to provide them to learners of any kind. You can ...

Although QR code is not that common in Belgium , I thought it was time to add it to my blog. If any of you out there have a QR camera on your phone you can then easily keep track of my mobile feeds. QR coding is a Japanese invention, but is slowly invading the world. To get this QR code for my blog, I used the winksite website , but you can also use the Kaywa feed2mobile if you like a Swiss communications company. If you are interested in getting ... it is their company is compliant with W3C standards for mobile sites. Which is always good to support. And they have ...

At ITM we make courses with different softwares depending on the content we want to get across. In this case the courses were initially made in eXe , with some interactive javascript and html as the technical basis of the course. The things I think off while recoding an existing course into an html course that is accessible with mobile devices (even ... on this course). To get CSS going, you can work with a WCSS or wap cascading style sheet to give your mobile courses extra layout energy. There are also other tools I use, which I have mentioned in a previous post (Opera mini, mobile ...

Today I have been busy with encoding an eLearning course for mobile devices. The pictures sometimes give me problems because I need to compress them too much for the slides to be useful.

... keynote speach of Diane Laurillard who is well-known for her ground breaking work on (mobile) learning methodologies ... her publications . mLearn keynote Diane Laurillard - Towards a pedagogy-driven account of mobile learning Dianne ... are mobile technologies good for? the learning affordances fo the technicale features. exploring: real phywical ... contexts (jones et al, in M Sharples - big issues in mobile learning 2007 How do we ensure the pedagogy exploits the ... its specific requirements for collaborative learning are well met if the learning design for mobile technology is ...

... beauty. So you don't want to switch to AT&T but still want the killer mobile web and beautiful touch screen? Well, your in luck. The Touch is just the device for you. Can I here anyone say "Ultimate mobile learning device"? I had heard ... maybe the new Touch and lower costs are just the thing to blow this whole mobile learning thing wide open. I think other ... Mobile Learning then you know my thoughts on the iPhone as a Mobile Learning Device. It rocks! But it's not the first gen that will make mobile learning happen. It's THIS gen! More on why later. Put the Touch on your Christmas ...

The mobile conference with a difference ( mLearn 08 ) runs this week in Telford , Shropshire, United Kingdom. I am looking forward to attend, speak and learn from the other participants. This is a renowned conference on mobile learning, so I am quite excited to go and gain new insights on the future of learning (yes, as you can see I am a believer...) While preparing my trip, a TED-talk by Iqbal Quadir on how mobile phones fight poverty caught my eye. I was rather ... . He builds on the knowledge from the World Bank and ... his train of thought makes sense. So my hope in mobile ...

... these are the slides of the presentation I am going to give in an hour's time at the eLearning Guild's Annual Gathering. Feeling the nerves creeping up on me like always, argh. | View | Upload your ...

... ‘ Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas ' is the latest virtual forum that is organised by e-agriculture . The forum has been running for a few days now and it is worth a visit and/or additional discussions. You must register for the forum first. Mobile phones are the success story of bridging the rural digital divide, bringing tangible economic benefits and acting as agents of social mobilization through improved communication. But what are the real challenges that face ... enhancing the benefits of mobile telephony, and looks at some examples of interesting initiatives and good outcomes from ...

... saving our pennies for the big June release date. So what does this mean for Mobile Learning? It certainly changes the ... mobile learning module. Collaborative audio recordings from translators in different languages: You send a script to ... voicemail file into your editing/authoring app. Many possibilities here. I hope to have Judy Brown, the queen of mobile ...