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Some free courses to learn about pbWorks, Edmodo, voice threads and more.  It uses camtasia to slice video into segments so that you can watch at your own time.

The classroom response system, whether it is Clickers or iRespond or iResponded, is just a tool. How it is used will make a significant difference or not. This video is excellent in showing the power of a CRS through peer discussion and how the instructors manage the wrap-up session. P/S Sally, thank you for the names of academic staff who have signed up to share: A/P Cheung (LST) Daniel (NSSE) Myra Garces (ECSE) - for the production of pedagogical tips for Bb, I was looking for testimonies so that we can create our own short video ....

Key Points ■ Limitations of traditional lectures ■ Engaging students in peer discussions ■ Learning gains you can expect ■ Attitude gains you can expect ■ Instructors' opinions about using clickers

Despite the slightly hyperbolic title, it's quite thoughtfully written actually. Some interesting case studies and reflections on how to use mobile learning in practical fieldwork, including some comments from teachers and students. A good read.

Excellent resource written by excellent people!

A research paper on how low-tech SMS can be highly effective for certain learning tasks such as teaching social English. And now, there's Whatsapp and other social-messaging platforms that can be an intermediate level between simple text messages that work on any basic phone, to sophisticated native apps that must be programmed for a specific operating system. "As SMS is technologically and functionally very simple, it can be considered to be a relatively primitive  technology. However, viewing it from another angle, we see that SMS ranks very highly in terms of user  convenience. Successful uptake of mobile learning strategy is more likely in the situation when "learning activities can integrate into our lives in an unobtrusive fashion". SMS can deliver information in this unobtrusive fashion more readily than other strategies. SMS, thus, can be regarded as a practical and realistic mLearning technology for use in natural settings at present."

This seems to be the granddaddy of mVideo and mAPT. But for now, from what I can see, it still works on a post-processing scale - i.e. record, and THEN annotate, not allowing you to add comments or tags in real-time. (Yet.) But it seems like a very good source of revenue, offering educational licenses, etc.

If you or anyone like to try out the apps, ETs have bought this app. It's from Ashley's Christmas gift card.

Came across this Javascript library that can take in dynamic data from websites and convert them into all kinds of graphs and visualization maps. We could use this for our mind-maps too. And it's free open-source!

As we use our smartphones more and more, our patterns of email reading and replying change. We could take note of these patterns, especially if doing surveys or email marketing campaigns, for better responses.

Provides a list of useful apps

Reccommended by Sally to me. Freeware, and only 267KB in size.

This could be very helpful for us ETs, especially when creating custom forms. This even allows you to record the Google accounts of the users...

An innovative concept where you do a collaborative group presentation on multiple iPads remotely using a common PDF linked via Dropbox.

I came across this ePortfolio iPhone app. It's content-rich and I think could be a good resource for our students to use. 

Does the app actually help create a mobile portfolio or is it just a handy reference on e-portfolios?

A handy reference. There are other eportfolio iphone apps that do the creating of mobile eportfolios, such as Curtin University's iphone app. However, the problem is that those apps are specific to their eportfolio systems, so they are generally closed to non-university users. If I find one that is open (and uses open systems), I'll share here ASAP.

Wonder how we can use this for e-learning purposes...

AR - fringe event for e-fest?

Since our trainee teachers need to teach in classroom, create different scenario of classroom like noisy class, playful class, unattentive class, etc, and instructor can use these content to teach trainee teacher about classroom management.

thanks for the idea KC! But not sure this conversion will spam the rest of those who commented. Let's discuss in details offline. :)

A few cool UI designs for mobile like 7, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21

#21 is really good! We might consider something like this for our m-learn (video) app.

Tips on saving time using Evernote. 

Create visually creative info-graphics in classrooms. Great for educators or anyone who wishes to display visually attractive information that doesn't bore the audience. There's eight to choose from. My favourite to use is Easel.ly. 

Useful for ETs :)

Useful to the IDs too. Thanks for finding this and thinking of us!

You are welcome Ashley :)