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Want an example of ubiquitous learning?

jnxyz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:03:58 +0000

Our sister-blog mlearning-world has posted a great video depicting a ubiquitous learning project – harnessing the power of the mobile phones and downtime between on-field action at sports stadiums to deliver science lessons. This is a fantastic example of how to take advantage of teachable moments – but on a massive scale! Go here to see the vid:

http://mlearningworld.blogspot.com/2009/01/hot-lava-brings-science-to-100000.html

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Mobile Software is here to stay

jnxyz — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:05:17 +0000

> So, this whole ‘buying software just for mobile devices’ thing is > really taking off! Educators should take note that a major shift > from PCs to mobile/ everywhere computing I’d under way -I mean > 500,000,000 app downloads in 6 months is a huge number by any > technology platforms standards, and with Android, Palm and > Blackberry all having app stores of their own ok the way, it’s clear > that anytime access to software via wireless connections will be an > important part of our students futures. Now to working out what the > educational opportunities if this are … !
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> Read more about it here:
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> http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/app-store-500-million-downloads-15000-apps/

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Windows Mobile to change strategy

jnxyz — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:26:59 +0000

After seeing its market share of smartphones diminish recently for a couple of reasons (iPhone, Blackberry …), and before the amazing new Palm Pre smartphone is released, Windows Mobile has decided to cull the number of WinMo phones that are released. Interesting move/ reaction to worldwide converged device developments…

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/10/microsoft-culling-the-winmo-herd-fewer-phones-to-be-offered/

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PALM (finally) strikes back!

jnxyz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:58:16 +0000

Well, the long 5 year wait for originators of handheld devices with mass-appeal Palm to UPDATE its operating system has finally arrived. Seriously my 5-year old NZ90 Clie runs basically the same OS as the latest Centro smartphone from Palm. In that time Palm has just kept up with the times by morphing from PDAs to ok Qwerty-keyboard smartphones. BUT in that time we’ve had iPhones and the Android OS and multi-touch and web2.0 etc etc.

Now Palm has announced the ‘pre’ with a large touchscreen, sliding qwerty-keyboard, gorgeous rounded design, AND a new OS known as WebOS. See more here at Engadget’s report: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/palm-pre-in-depth-impressions-video-and-huge-hands-on-gallery/

Needless to say with Android, iPhone apps and now WebOS in the mix, Educators now have three modern, capable platforms to utilize for moving learning into the 21st century. More to come when WebOS actually hits the streets (sometime in the next 5 months apparently).

Jonathan Nalder

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