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Outline and resources from the recent Mobile Learning event run by RSC Northern.

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A look into the near future at how mobiles could be used to support data gathering in Africa.
Have to say that I hadn't heard about 3d cameras in phones before.

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A look at how some US unis are creating their own apps to allow students to access information about courses/campus etc.

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Useful mapping tool for getting some sort of prediction of 3G coverage at a location, based on the experiences of people who chose to download a BBC app onto their Android phones.

Unsurprisingly, the data tends to cover built-up areas and main transport routes, so if you're trying to find out what you're coverage will be like on a field trip to Buachaille Etive Mor you might be disappointed 

BBC mobile data network 3G

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This is for people who take their movie making REALLY seriously.

video moviemaking mobile iphone apps

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A bevy of ideas on how to use Foursquare in an educational setting.

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An example of an HEI using location-based social media to support its students.

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It's the bit at the bottom about mobile users exceeding desktop that interests me.

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H/T @markpower

Nice infographic showing usage of different social media tools including a comparison of people using them on mobile or fixed devices.

Look at where apps like Foursquare and Gowalla are in relation to the big hitters like Skiype, Facebook and Hotmail.

foursquare geolocation social media mobile infographic 2011

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Intriguing visualisation of Foursquare checkins in New York and San Francisco over the course of a week as a heat map.

Looking at it you get a picture of how useful this data might be to marketers or other service providers.

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The original blog post that brought the iOS tracking data to the public eye - from the O'Reilly Radar.

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A Wall St Journal mini site examining what personal information 101 smartphone apps (iOS and Android) send back to their creators and 3rd parties.

Location information is common to a lot of them. Some you'd expect, like Foursquare, but others are more surprising; Angry Birds & Pimple Popper?

Most of the 3rd parties are marketers, collecting the data to build up a picture of the users. One can imagine that this data has quite a high value.

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Keeping this one tucked away for later - these vector graphic setts will be invaluable for creating customer graphics re: smartphones - from @mhawksey

mobile photoshop .psd graphics

Blog post by Martin Hawksey at the JISC Regional Support Centre for Scotland North & East on using the Evernote productivity tool as a basis for an eportfolio.
Great idea for mobile collection of experiences and all in a transportable format.

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Handy tips from @rmbyrne to make your blog more accessible to mobile users.

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Grateful to @jamesclay for blogging about this as I'd read Danah's post a while ago then completely forgot where I'd read it and who had written it.

It's a good entry to the debate about how tweeting on the backchannel at a live event can impact on a speaker. 

I don't see this as a reason to not have a backchannel or a twittersteam visible during an event but there are interesting lessons here for speakers as well as tweeters.

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A slideshare on designing content for the mobile web. It includes some suggestions for scripting but also highlights the variety of mobile devices and browsers in use and how this affects accessibility. We don't all have iPhones (and nor should we).

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Molenet's analysis of funded projects in mobile learning (mainly in FE) - Links to PDF report.

Saved for reading later

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A series of 4 free to download ebooks under a Creative Commons license on the themes of instructional design, emerging technologies, mobile learning and theory and practice of online learning, all in the context of distance learning.

Published by Athabasca University.

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Open access journal on the use of mobile technologies for teaching and learning.

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