Mobile Learning On The Interwebs ? Virtual School Meanderings

Beginning with the eSchool News Today.

While many schools have invested in Apple?s iPad, in our top story for today, Contributing Editor Raishay Lin highlights seven other tablet options for schools.

Also, Assistant Editor Denny Carter reports how colleges are taking a team approach to eTextbooks, thanks to a pilot project among Interet2 member universities.

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Top News of the Day

Next, SmartBrief on EdTech.

Company to study students? use of Android tablets
The cellphone carrier Kajeet will evaluate the use of tablet computers in schools, including the mobile-computing needs of students and teachers. As part of the study, students in Fairfax, Va., and Chicago will use Android tablets. The schools will use a Web-based platform to base instruction around the technology and study issues with Internet privacy, security and one-to-one computing. eSchool News (free registration) (6/28)

Ohio school opts for iPads over laptops
A school in Ohio will distribute iPad devices to students as part of an effort to improve the quality of instruction, reduce paper and make lessons more engaging. ?We thought about giving the students laptops or tablets and decided on a tablet,? said Brian Shaver, school and parish director. ?We saw laptops as just a portable word processor, but the tablets have more technology-based opportunities for learning.? Fostoria Review Times (Ohio) (6/30)

Students who are autistic make music together using iPads
Students with special needs at a New York school are performing in a band, using iPads as instruments. Music teacher Adam Goldberg says the technology helps eliminate barriers for the students, some of whom typically have trouble communicating, socializing and concentrating. Students play music using several applications, including Apple?s Garageband. FoxNews.com (7/5)

Back to the regular Google News alert for mobile learning.

Use your Smart Phone to Get Smarter with M-LearnOntheGo
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
anybody can create and teach mobile courses and learn online on the go. Dynamic M-LearnOntheGo mobile platform offers radical technological support, while allowing you to deliver dependable and portable product information, inventory lists, job aids, ?
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Stay together, learn something and be patient, and we?ll help Airbus succeed ?
Press-Register ? al.com (blog)
Let?s say, right up front, that when I talked to Bill Taylor late last week, he would not comment on the reports that Airbus had chosen Mobile as its new home in the United States. Taylor, head of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama, didn?t ?
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Smart Horizons Awarded Mobile Learning Solutions Contract Through the ?
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Through this consortium, schools, government agencies, and non-profit organizations have the opportunity to purchase training products and software solutions at negotiated best prices. The STS catalog contains driver training for bus drivers and others ?
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Learning More About Brookley?s Aeroplex
WPMI Local 15 News
It?s been renamed the Brookley Aeroplex, but back in the day, Brookley Field was a major part of Mobile?s economy.
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Pressmart launches mobile phone based learning solution
IBNLive.com
Pressmart launches mobile phone based learning solution. PTI | 08:07 PM,Jul 02,2012. ? Previous ? Next ?. This is an automated news feed. The contents have not been selected or edited by IBNLive. IBNLive. ibn apps ?
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An app soon for text books to lighten your kids? school bags
Hindu Business Line
The company has signed a deal with the 100-year-old La Salle Green Hills School at Manila in the Philippines to introduce Mobile Learning Classroom Application in their schools. ?About 4000 students from Grade 1 to Grade 12 will use the 8.9-inch ?
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Pressmart launches tablet-based education solution
Zee News
Online publishing provider Pressmart Monday announced the launch of MOCA (Mobile Learning Classroom Application), a paperless, tablet based end-to-end solution for schools.
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Pressmart Launches MOCA; Helps La Salle Metro Manila, World?s first School to ?
India Education Diary
Hyderabad: Hyderabad based Online Publishing Provider PRESSMART (www.pressmart.com) today formally announced the launch of MOCA (Mobile Learning Classroom Application) in India and the deployment of its application MOCA for (Personal ?
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An app soon for text books to lighten your kids? school bags
Hindu Business Line
Business Line Fostering e-content: Mr Raghavan Madabhushi, CEO of Pressmart, launching the Mobile Learning Classroom Application in Hyderabad on Monday with Mr Vikram Simha Torpunuri, Chairman, and Mr Kiran Booneti, COO. ? Photo: P.V. ?
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Pressmart to foray into tablet-based education
mydigitalfc.com
Pressmart?s Mobile Learning Classroom Application (MOCA), the company says, is already being used by educational institutions in Philippines and next it would hold pilot projects in India, Singapore, Malaysia and Australia in the coming few months.
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Pressmart to launch 3 products during next quarter
Economic Times
The company has just launched a mobile learning classroom application (MOCA) for school students- a one-stop of sorts that houses all learning material. MOCA is implemented on a Samsung tablet presently and the company is looking at tying up with other ?
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Mobile learning fails to compute
The Australian
THE e-generation gap has hit higher education, with a disjunction between students? expectations of smartphones and tablets and universities? efforts to incorporate them.
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UT Tyler to conduct iPad research project
East Texas Review
The University of Texas at Tyler will implement an iPad research project this fall that will assess the use of mobile-learning devices on student learning and engagement, UT Tyler President Rodney Mabry announced. ?Anecdotal evidence and some research ?
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Learning about apps in simple terms
Phones Review
This is widely used now because of the applications that are now popular and are installed in mobile gadgets such as mobile phones and tablets. They are either purchased from a central app market or can be downloaded free from official websites of ?
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E-learning going mobile in Asia
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Proliferation of mobile devices in Asia driving businesses in region to customize more flexible ways of distributing e-learning content to users, say market players.
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Special Learning, Inc. Launches ?Communicating Basic Needs? App for Android ?
Equities.com
Special Learning, Inc., the leading global provider of mobile technology applications and educational resources for the autism community, today announced the launch of its ?Communicating Basic Needs? app (ComApp) for Android platforms including the ?
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BrainPOP Jr. ?Movie of the Week? App Now Available in App Store
MarketWatch (press release)
?We are thrilled to bring mobile learning to the fingertips of a younger generation of students with the addition of BrainPOP Jr. to the BrainPOP family of apps,? said Avraham Kadar, M.D., BrainPOP?s Founder and CEO. ?By enabling a content-rich ?
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Pressmart Launches Tablet Based Learning Solution For Schools; Time To ?
MediaNama.com
Online publishing solutions provider, Pressmart, has launched a mobile learning solution for schools, centred around tablets. Calling it MOCA or Mobile Learning Classroom Application, the company has deployed the solution at a school in Manila, ?
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Google goes beyond search with self-learning Android assistant
Globe and Mail
There are two common complaints about the sort of radical personalisation that Google is attempting with its new Google Now mobile search service. One is that it doesn?t work: the other is that it works too well. For the sake of Google?s bottom line ?
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Mobile picking up steam as primary device
Radio & Television Business Report
As America transitions from desk-bound internet access to mobile access, people who relied on their desk-sited hardware are learning to use their mobile device as the exclusive tool to perform certain tasks, according to a BIGinsight study. The number ?
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NOKIA OYJ : Shaping the Future Education through Mobile Phones? UNESCO ?
4-traders
With the implementation of mobile learning component, the programme gained the Government Sectors? support, with the Literacy Department of Punjab and the Education Department of Ministry of Capital Administration Development as new partners to the ?
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Next the Google Blog alert for mobile learning.

Your Input Needed ? Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative
By mvanhorn
A report on one of the activities that emphasizes the mission of ADL.
Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative

textually.org: Mobile Learning: How Smartphones Help Illiterate ?
Mobile Learning: How Smartphones Help Illiterate Farmers in Rural India. Hendrik-Devarahati.jpeg. Another interesting article by Ken Banks for National Geographic, part of a series called Posts from kiwanja.net, on how mobile phones and ?
textually.org

ED TECH: ISTE?s Mobile Learning Special Interest Group 07/09 by ?
h:137405 s:3471001 upcoming. Thanks to Mike Flood at Kajeet who set us up with Karen Sorenson and Elliot Soloway, leaders of group dedicated to mobile learning. Play in your default player Download this episode Open in new window ?
Education Talk Radio | Blog Talk?

Finally, the Google Web alert for mobile learning.

Mobile Learning ? Impact Instruction Group
Mobile Learning: Is it Time for Some Reality Checks? June 27 ? That being said, I still approach conversations about mobile learning with some trepidation.
www.impactinstruction.com/?/mobile-learning-is-it-time-for-s?

More Thoughts on Categories of Mobile Learning Content: Float ?
Float senior analyst Gary Woodill explains that the complexity of mobile learning content ranges from SMS all the way to collaborative experiences.
floatlearning.com/?/more-thoughts-on-categories-of-mobile-l?-

Analysis of Learning with Mobile Learning
The Resource for Education Technology Leaders focusing on K-12 educators. Site contains a Software Reviews Database, articles from Technology & Learning ?
techlearning.com/Default.aspx?tabid=67&EntryId=4497

Leveraging Mobile Learning For Sales Training | Upside Learning ?
It?s probably easier to push toothpaste back into a tube than convince sales professionals to attend classroom training. Sounds like an exaggeration? Not in my.
www.upsidelearning.com/?/leveraging-mobile-learning-for-sa?

Mobile Learning Shops ? Chief Delphi
Mobile Learning Shops General Forum. ? Over the last year I have seen mobile hobbyist shops become more popular. Has anyone been to one of these ?
www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid?

The new Camtasia Studio 8, the Flipped Classroom and Mobile ?
For all the mind-boggling stats we read about the video revolution, like how we are publishing video to YouTube at the rate of 72 hours every minute, and ?
rjacquez.com/the-new-camtasia-studio-8-the-flipped-classroo?

Mobile learning in language classroom
image1.png Mobile learning in language classroom today The introduction of changes and.
www.slideshare.net/?/mobile-learning-in-language-classroom

Is email and mobile learning (mLearning) making students dumb ?
Here is an interesting question: Is access to the Internet, mLearning, and email making students dumb?The reason I ask this question is because I seem to get ?
www.nature.com/scitable/blog/?/is_email_and_mobile_learni?

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