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"his ubitour version of Verne's adventure classic is enhanced with 2d codes, which extend the book into the digital world. With an iPhone or other appropriate Internet mobile phone you can participate in online conversations about the book, its characters, or author. The book also links Fogg's adventure to online interactive maps. Last, but not least, each chapter of the book is linked to its audio and video versions, which can be streamed or downloaded onto the mobile phone."

Social gaming to learn about issues. Many are based on phone apps and traveling around NYC to find things. One is a basketball game that teaches about the deficit. recommended at edcamp

share video live from your mobile phone

using cell phones and animations to train basic health and productivity procedures.

This is an amazing site that allows you to share your screen live with up to 250 viewers for free. You can even view the screencast on ipad/iPhone and Android phones. Perhaps most exciting of all is that you can use the site to control the viewed computer remotely, a useful feature for fixing any computer problems from afar. You need to download a small file to start sharing. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.

Media Guardian: special report on the role of technology in overseas development and disaster relief Technology is becoming easier to use and cheaper to buy. Who would have predicted that the mobile phone would become as ubiquitous as it has not only in the developed world where many people have more than one device but in the developing world as well?

Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.

Where Levine gets it wrong is to assume that this shift is being driven by the demand of digital natives for new methods of teaching and learning. Levine writes that, "Today's traditional undergraduates, aged 18 to 25, are digital natives. They grew up in a world of computers, Internet, cell phones, MP3 players, and social networking." I recommend that Arthur Levine, and all of you, download (buy, whatever) a copy of Clay Shirky's new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. Shirky talks about the fundamental_attribution_error, the tendency to explain behaviors as the result of character as opposed to the opportunity structure.

"I 1der if you got that 1 I wrote 2U B4." The note sounds like a text message exchanging between teenagers. In fact, it was written some 130 years before the arrival of the written language seen on mobile phone screens.

This QR-code tag extension generates a QR-code tag for the URL in the current tab open in Chrome. The tag can be scanned with a QR-code scanner/barcode scanner which could interpret the code and for instance launch the browser on a mobile phone jumping directly to the same URL.

Pod, Zune, PSP most of portable media players can play MP4 videos. Mobile phones also support MP4 format plus to 3GP and AVI. With powerful capability of converting both SD video formats (AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, MKV, RM, MOV, RMVB, and VOB) and HD video formats (AVCHD, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HD AVI, AVCHD, HD MPEG4, HD MOV, and HD WMV) to MPEG-4, Any Video Converter helps all PMP users to better enjoy their digital life!

Say it in seconds while on the phone or chatting online. Upload photos, take screenshots, and draw live with as many people as you like.

Just point your browser to http://docs.google.com/m (if you use the public version of Google Docs)

Literature Review in Mobile Technologies and Learning

 I am distributing my Google Voice number as a course messaging number, where students can leave course-related voicemail messages for me. Here are my reasons for doing this:

"Just this week I was getting the lowdown on Smart Lenses, something a lot of people were buzzing about at CES earlier this year. And now…voila. They're here, courtesy of our friends at Photojojo. And yes I am getting one. Because, wow."