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explains about cell phones and surveys

During the 2007-2008 school year, Wireless Reach began funding Project K-Nect, a pilot project in rural North Carolina where high school students received supplemental algebra problem sets on smartphones (the phones were provided by the project). The outcomes are promising -- classes using the smartphones have consistently achieved significantly higher proficiency rates on their end of course exams. So what's so different about delivering problem sets on a cell phone instead of a textbook? The first obvious answer is that the cell phone version is multi-media. The Project K-Nect problem sets begin with a Flash video visually demonstrating the problem -- you could theorize that this context prepares the student to understand the subsequent text-based problem better. You could also theorize that watching a Flash animation is more engaging (or just plain fun) and so more likely to keep students' attention.

Lots of resources from Tony Vincent. This page focuses on the many things you can do with an itouch in the classroom.

This video shows how to use itouch and google docs for a classroom. (I prefer polleverywhere for this.) This video demonstrates how to do this.

Harnessing itouches as an inexpensive way to use a voting system in the classroom. Thsi video shows you how.

Lost in a big city? It is a familiar experience. So imagine if you could use X-ray vision to see what was on the other side of the building in front of you.

This article describes a basic definition of gesture based computing and provides its readers with technology and applications that are equipped with this feature.

Description: Wireless networks, including Wi-Fi infrastructure and mesh networks, are becoming ubiquitous. It is critical to measure these networks to gain a better understanding of the traffic on the networks, the way they are used, and the response of the networks to different traffic patterns. It is also important to monitor operational wireless networks to improve security, capacity planning, and trouble shooting. Wireless networks pose unique challenges to measurement, however. In this talk I survey some of these challenges and describe some of the efforts underway to improve our ability to measure and monitor operational wireless network

Researchers are offering an open source code that allows the learning platform Moodle to be accessed with the iPhone. This code enables people worldwide to follow continuing medical education modules wherever and whenever they want. Starting today the demo site is open to all. The open source code will be made available after the demo phase." id="metasummary

Will the Joo Joo tablet pre-empt the itouch - not sure, but it sure looks cool and that it can surf the internet 9 seconds from being turned on is cool. Also looks to be an "e-book" type device as well. (Wonder if Amazon will make the kindle app on this device?)

More tablets heading to a place near you -- they call it a "category creating" Internet tablet - I'm not sure, but am still watching all these tools.

Shows how a moblie platform can be used to launched augmented reality (AR) games.

More than ever, things are able to spread quickly before news reporters even know or get there. People in Iran are using twitter to repot happenings instantly and to try to tell what is going on

Zosh application for iphones, it makes it to where you're able to sign important papers and fax it on the go.

Using iPhones to enhance the class room