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mobile / augmented reality learning: ARIS research at UWisconsin in Games, Learning, & Society

mobile / augmented reality learning: ARIS research at UWisconsin in Games, Learning, & Society

Seven Things That Could Make Your Gadgets Obsolete: (1) HDMI 1.4 - new standard for moving media from source to display will include 3DTV & ethernet for transfer of data up to 100 Mb/sec (2) USB 3.0 - new USB format at up to 400 Mb / sec is ten times faster than USB 2.0 (3) 3DTV - you'll need glasses - to appear latter half of 2010 (4) DLNA - Digital Living Network - around since 2004 is now getting integrated into lots of digital appliances. Get ready for the promised "connected house" (5) Mobile ATSC - to allow us to get t.v. broadcast signal to mobile devices (6) Ambient Light Sensors and other eco-friendly tv features (7) Internet-enable TV sets

millee: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies - project to help children in developing countries learn literacies

Mobile Learning Institute: featured teachers discussing the future (er, now) of education

supported text: Intel reader's mobile e-reader converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud at speeds suiting individual needs.

supported text: Intel reader's mobile e-reader converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud at speeds suiting individual needs.

privately share files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, or mobile.

privately share files and collaborate in real time by web, email, phone, or mobile.

Edmodo: secure and trusted social learning environment for classrooms; share ideas, files, & assignments; enables mobile access & messaging

Podcasts: iTunes University

Inkling: "the worlds first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content" - build rich, interactive learning content to tablet devices like the iPad.

With the WildLab iPhone application and associated inquiry-based curriculum, students learn the basics of scientific fieldwork, while using other STEM-related skills. Through observations, questions, and analysis, students come to know the important role they can play in gathering data about birds and their habitat, using mobile technology as a scientific tool. Most importantly, they experience the thrill of scientific discovery!

Previously known as Fauxto, Splashup is also a free online tool for enhancing the photos. It is browser friendly and supports various photosharing services as Picasa, Flickr, and Facebook. Splashup has a built up of various photo editing tools such as lasso, blur, brush fill, crop, etc. Multiple windows are allowed which gives it an edge above the rest. Beside, also provides us Splashup Light - a free offline photo editor, works perfectly on our desktop as well as on your mobile PCs.

only works on the iPhone and Android platform, but once you start using it you will understand why it is such a great product. Once you import your RSS feeds from Google Reader, and your Twitter and Facebook accounts, My6Sense begins analyzing how your read items and will start to give you personalized relevant results. Rather than go based on what you think you are interested in, My6Sense actually looks at what you click on - they have found that sometimes the two don't exactly match up. In this way they can determine what you are really interested in rather than what you think you are interested in.

Supported Text: send docs, whiteboards, and handwritten notes to store, fax, email, or publish

send docs, whiteboards, and handwritten notes to store, fax, email, or publish

4 must have android phone apps for students: (1) Evernote; (2) RealCalc; (3) StudyDroid; (4) Thinking Space

Looks like some good apps for mobile / computer-based study strategies and other

a great visual explanation of why EVERYTHING is going to the cloud