Mobile Learning Resources

Sample Applications, Projects, and Services


https://my.avantgo.com/home/

A free mobile content service for smartphones and PDAs
Synchronize mobile versions (called "channels") of your favorite websites to your smartphone or PDA. AvantGo offers thousands of channels from the world's leading brands in news, weather, sports and more. You can also use AvantGo to sync any website (family site, workout schedule, etc.) to your device.


http://web.mit.edu/eprom/index.html

EPROM, part of the Program for Developmental Entrepreneurship within the MIT Design Laboratory, aims to foster mobile phone-related research and entrepreneurship. Key activities include: the development of new applications for mobile phone users worldwide; academic research using mobile phones; and the creation of a widely applicable mobile phone programming curriculum.
http://www.flurry.com/ flurry - free mobile email for everyone. There's no need to spend a lot of money on a bulky "smart" phone. Introducing With revolutionary ease of use, you can access your email from your mobile phone anywhere and anytime.

http://www.math4mobile.com/index.html 		The Math4Mobile project examines the opportunities of ubiquitous and personal technologies for educational purposes, specifically of using the mobile phone for teaching and learning mathematics.
http://mob5.com With the editor from mob5 you can easily create a mobile homepage with images, links or other information. The address to your homepage is mob5.com/yourusername

http://www.mojopac.com/portal/content/hellomojo.jsp		 MojoPac can turn any portable storage device, including your iPod, or your USB flash or hard drives, into your Personal Computer - your MojoPac PC.

http://www.realeyes3d.com/pages/home/home.php		 Launched a new flagship service for camera phone users, qipit. Qipit is the first consumer mobile online service that allows people to capture, share and store any written and printed information with their camera phone, at any time, anywhere they are.

http://www.scanr.com/		 scanR develops applications that make it easy to capture information using camera phones. scanR's services are based on proprietary image processing and data refinement technology and are designed to work with any mobile phone platform.

http://www.soonr.com/web/front/home.jsp 		Access to applications and files is “PC Power on your phone”. SoonR is the only service that enables standard mobile phones to use the applications on PCs in an optimized way.  Desktop Search, Outlook, Skype, and the files on desktop computer(s) are made available anywhere you are and even when your computer is turned off*. Any phone with data access becomes a smart phone.

http://winksite.com/site/index.cfm		 WINKsite works on any web-enabled mobile phone or PDA running a WML v1.x, xHTML Mobile Profile (WML v2.0) or i-mode compatible HTML (cHTML) browser.

Examples: Podcasts

http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html 		The content part of UC Berkeley's commitment to the broadest possible dissemination of knowledge for the benefit of our state, the nation and the world.
http://www.fitpod.com/ fitPod.com is the free online community for everything fitness and iPod. It's the place to meet others with similar interests, pick up fitness tips, discuss fitness and music, and share your favorite fitness playlists — what we call "fitLists."
http://fonpods.com/ Fonpods transforms your cellphone into a mobile entertainment and information system. Fonpods is a free, on-demand service that brings podcast listening to any phone.
http://www.melodeo.com/ Melodeo, Inc. is dedicated to bringing consumers the best selection of on-demand podcasts, radio and soon video for PC and mobile phone. Combining social networking, powerful content and access from any device, Melodeo makes it easy to keep up with the world and share entertainment, music, news and views with friends
http://www.pluggd.com/demo/ HearHere™ lets you quickly find the portions of an audio or video podcast that interest you.

http://www.spodradio.com/en/index.html 		spodradio is the first worldwide radio and podcast content Hub, delivering the Total Radio Experience to mobile broadband users.

Blogs and Other Resources

http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?pageid=5527&bhcp=1 		Mobility and Mobile Learning  Using portable computing devices (such as laptops, PDAs, smart phones, and tablet PCs) with wireless networks enables mobility and mobile learning. Mobility allows teaching and learning to extend to spaces beyond the traditional classroom. Within the classroom, mobile learning gives instructors and learners increased flexibility and new opportunities for interaction. Mobile technologies support learning experiences that are collaborative, accessible, and integrated with the world beyond the classroom.
e-Learning Guild Mobile Learning Research
http://www.elearningguild.com/pdf/1/july_2006_-_mobilelearning.pdf
Mobile Web best practices
http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/

Tools

Papers
Mobile Life Report 2006 (UK) - How mobile phones change the way we live - http://www.mobilelife2006.co.uk/PDF/Mobile%20Life%20Report%202006%20Colour%20Version.pdf
The Mobile Life Youth Report 2006 - The impact of the mobile phone on the lives of young people - http://www.vajra.co.uk/staging/CPW/PDF/Mobile%20Life%20Youth%20Report%202006%20BW.pdf

http://www.judybrown.com/mobileresources.html - Last Updated March 31, 2007