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This article was written 5 years ago. Now, we have the benefit of ubiqutious mobile chat platforms e.g. Whatsapp, which can create small focus groups to talk about a particular topic. Not only so, besides the usual text, Whatsapp also allows participants to share mobile videos taken on the spot, share their geolocations with one another, share audio recordings and of course, images. A personal example of how I use Whatsapp for personal learning: I use Whatsapp regularly to practice reading and writing my Japanese with a few other friends, and when I make mistakes, they can quickly give me feedback in real-time. We also exchange photos of Japanese culture, food items and even on-the-spot videos from those who are in Japan. Some of us go for Japanese classes, some don't. But those who go for the classes share what they have learnt with those who haven't.  I'm not sure if this can be classified as a type of "flipped learning", but I realized that mobile chat makes an excellent real-time, yet highly personalized tool for e-learning in small group discussions. Perhaps this is one area we can consider next time as a way to do mobile learning that harnesses the social nature of us learners.

An example of a webservice for automatically backing up Google Apps domain. Reliable (and restorable) basic infrastructure is important for ensuring smooth transition to using e-learning tools in daily usage.

Both the tools you shared look like very useful considerations. Work with Sally to implement the free tools if we need them. Monitor the paid tools and our usage patterns to see if we need to use them later.

Here's a list of some e-Learning authoring tools for mobile learning.

One of the greatest (and most untapped) powers of e-learning is its ability to offer relevant and immediate _feedback_ on the go while you do your daily tasks e.g. web-surfing. This tool is a perfect example of such learning.

Mentor mob is a tool for creating e-learning content.   

Excellent find! It's actually a tool for curating e-learning content. I might use this for a class this month!

This shows the power of twitter, one posed a simple question "Which 5 Web 2.0 tools teachers are using in classrooms". A huge swell of support as hundreds of people have contributed. A great way of using Twitter!

For e-portfolio team to check out 

Digication is an e-Portfolio tool for students to showcase and share their work online with their family, friends, teachers, and potential employers.

Wix is a do-it-yourself website builder: a free online tool that lets you create and customize your own websites. Built with a powerful, user-friendly interface, Wix gives you total control over your web design without knowing the first thing about fancy coding or programming. This tool is really wonderful and as easy as Prezi, maybe we can use it for our e-portfoilo and spread it to our staffs and student-teachers.

PLANE - Pathways for Learning Anywhere, Anytime: A Network for Educators PLANE is an innovative and fun educator community, networking space, and virtual world; providing accredited professional learning, courses, multi-media resources, ICT skills development, e-portfolio, collaborative tools, games-based-learning, and peer coaching.

Great resources. This site recommends a lot of great e-tools for teachers and students.

nyone will be able to create and deploy mobile learning content with our easy-to-use mLearning Studio; choose templates, add text, images, audio, video and quizzes, then publish. The content is delivered in a fully HTML5 compatible mobile course player with cross-platform support for iPhone, iPad, and Android (2.2 and higher); support for Blackberry coming soon.

Announcing the first tool to deploy your rapid e-learning content in HTML5 format as well as Flash. 

Great site to find out the various e-Tools, reason for use, ease of use and other resources related to that.. 

I just happened to think: Imagine if this pattern-recognition tech concept could be adapted to mobile phones in the near future, it might make for a very powerful blended learning / augmented reality tool. :) According to the researcher, implementation for mobile devices is feasible. Possible applications for m-learning could be: gestural recognition, dynamic object association and the like. E.g. If we could use an iPhone/Kinect to track a student's movements and remotely control an external apparatus halfway across the globe (maybe explore an Amazonian jungle to study biodiversity first-hand), or help disabled students (maybe cerebral palsy sufferers) communicate their thoughts more clearly... or perhaps get the students to "air-sketch" Chinese/Tamil characters to produce music on the go... For more info: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/

Oh yes, did I mention Predator is open source too? http://goo.gl/Kj95y

Seems like there is a dearth of mPortfolios that use open platforms and are not locked into proprietary systems. However, one interesting potential feature that I saw on the page was the idea of voice-to-text for uploading into e-Portfolios.  Am currently working on a mobile app that integrates with Google Sites. Shall explore the voice-to-text idea where possible

Interesting presentation of tools for our students.