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If we are ever going to get to a point where we can use mobile technology as a learning tool we need to help executives get past the idea that the use of mobile phones are limited to email.  We have to show the ease of “mobile working” before we can truly persuade leadership to invest in “mobile learning.”  How you ask?  I suggest including some new courses in your curriculum – add a “Blackberry: It’s more than email” course and get people using the technology the way it was meant to be used.

90 HTC Desires to its agents to help clean up the trash in the city.  Basically, it uses the GPS in the phone to report people that have let their bins overflow, or if a company has failed to pick up the trash.  The application allows the agents to send a voice comment, photo, and the GPS Location of the offending site.

Plurk vs Twitter Review

Better design then twitter. Twitter does not have karma More privacy options Picture and Video can be embed on plurk post. You can post comments on plurks. IM works! No downtime

open educational resources and open scholarship (a form of open educational practice)

ductions Nobelprize.org:s educational section consists of 41 productions. Of these, 29 are interactive learning games of various sorts and degrees of difficulties. Most of them also includ

es a "Read more" about the subject. Enjoy learning!

"The answer to ending bullying or misuse of social media is not to ban it ... what we need to do is talk about the behaviors that are unacceptable,"

model the correct way to use tools such as cell phones to connect with the world and learn.

Microsoft Research New England researcher danah boyd (boyd uses an all lowercase name) calls two of the techniques "super-logoff" and "whitewalling".  She outlined what she calls "risk reduction strategies"

Workshop Overview The teachers will be led through a series of activities involving various applications, to invoke the development of the stated activity. The following lists the areas of focus covered during the workshop: