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Primarily an attendance register with ARS functionality, but limited to 100 Bluetooth and Java equipped cellphones.

"Connexions is a dynamic digital educational ecosystem consisting of an educational content repository and a content management system optimized for the delivery of educational content. Connexions is one of the most popular open education sites in the world. Its more than 17,000 learning objects or modules in its repository and over 1000 collections (textbooks, journal articles, etc.) are used by over 2 million people per month. Its content services the educational needs of learners of all ages, in nearly every discipline, from math and science to history and English to psychology and sociology. Connexions delivers content for free over the Internet for schools, educators, students, and parents to access 24/7/365. Materials are easily downloadable to almost any mobile device for use anywhere, anytime. Schools can also order low cost hard copy sets of the materials (textbooks)."

College students love their smartphones. They use them in a myriad of ways and there's the data to prove it. A new infographic visualizes the current state of smartphone usage by college students and it's a sight to see. The infographic below from Online Degrees shows the 12 most popular ways students are using smartphones as well as the types of news they're reading, and more.

Article arguing that MIT should make a bold move to promote Open Access to honour Aaron Swartz.

Google life images for educational use - all taken from the LIFE magasine photo archive including published and unpublished images

Sync Dropbox and Google Doc ( apparently!)

Site to Phone is a free service designed to send links and text from your computer to your phone or tablet. Once you have a Site to Phone account you can download a selection of extensions and browser addons that let you send information to your phone. Once your phone is setup you can recieve the information by opening a homescreen app or bookmark. If you regularly type out links from your computers web browser onto your phone Site to Phone could save you a lot of time.

42% per capita penetration for smartphones in NZ! Would not have guessed is was this high.

Accessible app for typing on a touch screen!

Using a cutlery analogy with personal devices - we choose the best one for the job in hand and use multiple types.

Post describing the use of a Connectivist approach to aggregating, curating and learning from content created as part of the Future of Learning event at Harvard. Very promising stuff.

Useful timeline stretching back to pre-email days.

A mixed article on online learning and the effect on international student numbers (and conflates with moocs)

Not read yet but could be useful.