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A convenient and comprehensive compilation of UI guidelines for mobile and tablet web designs for all sorts of platforms (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Win Phone 7 and even Symbian and webOS)

Here's a document found on the Lake County district lays out several guidelines teachers should follow. Although they take no position on an employee's online activity during "personal time," the document offers a general rule of thumb

School districts are setting guidelines on teachers' social networking today. 

A set of Android user interface guides, released by Mutual Mobile, seeks to create standards for a platform where "official" standards don't exist. The guidelines follow the whole process of designing an application and all of its elements, including pop-up windows, colors, fonts and list views, through screenshots, so designers can have examples in front of them during the development process.

Henry This is a guidelines for developing video contents for Android. It describes the constraints, dimensions and encoding methods. See if it helps in your projects

Link to very useful PDF for educators on copyright and fair use guidelines

Guidelines and resources for designing iPhone graphic elements

Teachers are told to be very careful about what they post to sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and other social media sites.

This overview features a hand-picked and organized selection of the most useful and popular Smashing Magazine's articles related to design and development for mobile devices and published here over all the years.

simple & interactive

Step by step guidelines on Google Drive and Docs.

Excellent! This will certainly provide some guidelines for designing for mobile interfaces.

Harry Walker is the principal of Sandy Plains Elementary School in Baltimore County, Maryland. Fourth and fifth graders at the school are piloting one-to-one computing with iPod touches. In addition, Harry is a doctoral student at John Hopkins University. He's investigating the impact of iPod touch on student achievement. One of his challenges is wading through the huge number apps available. He's crafted a rubric to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of an app in terms of how it may impact student achievement. His criteria include curriculum connection, authenticity, feedback, differentiation, user friendliness, and student motivation.

This can be used as a guideline for the ETs when evaluating apps.

Reflections of an app designer/creator who creates apps for kids. Something for the apps teams to read, reflect and consider incorporating.

Clear guidelines that it's sure worth incorporating!