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The Mobile Learning Portal is a new and growing resource, and the more knowledge we gather, the more we can share with others.If you know of an interesting article, program, or other source of useful information related to mobile learning, please take a moment to tell us about it.

Practical tips and tutorials about using web2.0 tools and mobile apps in education .The best free web, adnroid, smartphone,iPhone, and samsung applications to help you better enhance your mobile learning.

School leaders should join this group in order to share resources related to the use of mobile technologies in schools. The focus of our research gathering efforts will be on information useful to principals, superintendents, CIOs, and CTOs in particular.

So with our dependency on our smartphones and other mobile devices like the iPad how are they affecting how we pack for and travel on vacations today?

Practical tips and tutorials about using web2.0 tools and mobile apps in education .The best free web, adnroid, smartphone,iPhone, and samsung applications to help you better enhance your mobile learning.

A multitude of resources for students and teachers to create resources and engage in mobile learning.

"Google Sites Now Allows You To Create A Mobile Landing Page"

could we do this for the school sites?

"Accessing music online and via mobile phones has never been easier, but it does raise legal, security and ethical issues. This new guide for parents, carers and teachers aims to give essential advice about how young people can get the best out of downloading and sharing music online and via mobile technology in a safe and legal way, as well as providing tips for discussion. This guide:"

create realtime quizzes for your class across mobile devices and collect results.

This little app made my day! If you have ever been frustrated by having to type in a long url or wanted others to type one in in a hand held device, without email etc.. this is the app for you. Copy and paste in the url. ShortEnuf will generate a 5 character url that lasts all of 3 minutes and allows everyone to get the page you want them on painlessly!

so going to use this on Saturday for the V-room...was stressing about that long url and email etc... to mobile devices...not any more!!!! :-)

ePub is an internationally recognized standard for sharing "reflowable" content. Essentially, the ePub is a file format that allows the mobile device to read the file and optimize the content within for viewing. This helps level the playing field by giving each student the optimal user experience based on the device they own, without any additional demands on the instructor. ePubs allow for the resizing of text, easy chaptering of long works, inline video and image display with the ability to resize and much more.

Welcome to the MobiMOOC course wiki! If you visit this wiki, you probably want to register for the free, open and online MobiMOOC course which will run from Saturday 8 September - Sunday 30 September 2012 and will focus on learning/training with mobile devices (mLearning).

" Mentimeter allows you to use mobile phones or tablets to vote on any question you specify. Our vision is to improve the meeting between a presenter and an audience. "

Sesame Street began in 1969 as a simple yet revolutionary idea to use television to help kids learn. More than four decades later, Sesame Street is the longest street in the world, stretching across 150+ countries and all kinds of media, from books to radio to mobile devices. Led by its famously furry cast, the show addresses a wide spectrum of children's learning - ABCs and 123s, health, mutual understanding, and more - with an approach that's brilliantly adaptable to local cultures and educational needs. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization making a meaningful difference in the lives of children worldwide by developing innovative and engaging educational content delivered in a variety of ways -- including television, radio, books, magazines, interactive media, and community outreach. http://www.sesamestreet.org

Gooru: Just launched in beta, Gooru Learning is a "search engine for learning" that harnesses the power of the web by organizing free, online education resources into searchable collections, accessible from any web or mobile platform. Using machine learning and human judgment, Gooru curates, auto-tags and contextualizes collections of web resources to accommodate personalized learning pathways. Gooru collections are aligned to US Common Core Standards for Math and to California Science Curriculum Standards.

"But equipping a classroom with iPods is far cheaper than a full set of computers for a classroom."

Watch the video. This is very cool!

"Students will work in teams to create a real-world mobile app during the 12-week, after-school course. Enrollment is optional, but as of Jan. 24, 30 Apex students had registered, said Julie Oster, director of the Academy of Information Technology, an Apex High School program that follows the NAF curriculum."