App Development: A new product on the radar for developing iPod touch / iPhone / iPad Apps using ENGLISH.
Rev Mobile ….there is a great video demo here, makes you want to brush up your Photoshop skills and design and develop an app of your own.
Classroom reflections: I have started up a Posterous site to post weekly summaries about what is actually happening in my classroom with students in Year 10 using the iPod touch; the good, the bad and the ugly! My daughter tells me I shouldn’t sound so depressed, but I think it was the horrendous weather today that has affected my voice. Let’s hope for a more cheery me next time.
Applications: App-titude will be delivering educational Apps for the iPod touch that interface with an online assessment system.
If you work at an Australian school, you can receive a $10.00 iTunes gift card for registering your interest with App-titude.
Conferences: If anyone is looking to attend a great mLearning conference this year, there are quite a few coming up:
In the US…
In Australia…
In the UK…
In Malta…
ACEC2010 coming up soon in Melbourne will be making available iPod touch devices on loan to participants.
Mobile learning guidelines: If you are considering mobile learning for your ‘institution’, you should read these guidelines by Judy Brown.
And here’s a story about a successful iPod touch pilot in Georgia US where I went last year.
iPod Games for learning covers lesson plans using games on the iPod touch, for example, Civilisation Revolutions
Mobile learning makes it’s mark on K – 12 and Educators embrace iPods for learning (I went to Roswell last year, an awesome school…got to see a pep rally for the first time!)
A is for Apps: How smartphones and handheld computers sparked an educational revolution
Encyclopaedia Britannica now available for the iPhone / iPod touch – more than 25, 000 entries!
