Skype on the iPhone

Great news for iPhone users - official Skype app now available free on
the iTunes app store.

mICTe Conference Presentation

QR Code link to Wiki page "Integrating Mobile Web2"

SlideShare Mobile

http://m.slideshare.com/show.php?currentslide=1&slideurl=slideshare.net/AmitRanjan/introducing-slideshare-mobile-use-slideshare-on-the-go-1161829

Sent from my iPhone

iPhone OS3 Features announced

Apple iPhone OS3 features: http://tinyurl.com/detdar


iPhone OS3 overview http://tinyurl.com/coydrt


Overview of updates in slide below (From GSMArena, and Engadget)

Apple Presentation http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0903lajkszg/event/index.html

http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/

Great list of new features, BUT still no video recording or Flash support!!! BOO!

In-Flight Mobile

Singapore Air now provide in-flight facilities for accessing your mobile content and devices on their in-seat AV centres - even in economy class! On certain flights there is even a special iPod/iPhone remote cable available - very nice. Also powerpoints in-seat for laptops, but the AV Centre allows editing of Office documents from a Flash-drive directly using the text-entry on the console controller!

PICS BELOW:

From Barcelona 24/02/09

From Barcelona 24/02/09

From Barcelona 24/02/09

From Barcelona 24/02/09

From Barcelona 24/02/09

IADIS 2009 Conference presentation

From Barcelona 24/02/09

Lots of questions - good discussion generated, time for coffee now!

From Barcelona 24/02/09

IADIS Mobile Learning Presentation

IADIS Mobile Learning Conference presentation notes now on wiki: http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/MobilePedagogy2

Feel free to discuss IADIS presentation here: http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/Talk:MobilePedagogy2

MySpace Mobile

MySpace are actively persuing mobile users by creating very mobile friendly applications for checking and updating your MySpace profiles etc...

http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/009/02/myspace_launches_new_mobile_website_for_s60_devices.htm

Photos from Barcelona

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Smartphone Marketshare 08

Table of smartphone marketshare 2008 from ABI Research

Report LINK

Legend: SS = Samsung, Sony E = Sony ericsson, Mot = Motorola

Wikipedia has different numbers for the last quarter of 2008 - showing the iPhone in second place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone











A third report below for Q3 2008

http://www.canalys.com/pr/2008/r2008112.htm

"The introduction of the iPhone 3G in July and Apple’s expansion
into many more countries helped propel the vendor to second place
globally, taking it above RIM in the quarter and resulting in higher
shipments than for all the Microsoft-based smart phones combined."

CTLI Learning Technologies Slideshare

Created by Hazel Owen, CTLI.

The Learning Technologies Team at CTLI, Unitec NZ

View more presentations from Hazel Owen. (tags: creativity advisors)

New Media Consortium Emerging Technologies 2009 Report

The 2009 Report identifies Mobile Devices as an emerging technology with time-to-adoption of one to two years.

■ Mobiles. Already considered as another component of the network on many campuses, mobiles continue to evolve rapidly. New interfaces, the ability to run third-party applications, and location-awareness have all come to the mobile device in the past year, making it an ever more versatile tool that can be easily adapted to a host of tasks for learning, productivity, and social networking. For many users, broadband mobile devices like the iPhone have already begun to assume many tasks that were once the exclusive province of portable computers.

Identified emerging technologies in education include (in order ofadoption timeframe)

1. Mobiles


2. Cloud Computing


3. Geo-Everything


4. The Personal Web


5. Semantic-Aware Applications


6. Smart Objects

http://www.nmc.org/news/nmc/2009-horizon-report-released

http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2009-Horizon-Report.pdf

Smartphones & the future of Music Sales

NZHerald article on future delivery of music – via smartphones!

Schweizer, K. (2009, January 24). Musicians turn to tech-savvy audience: Smartphones and the internet prove popular with both artisits and fans. Weekend Herald, p. C5.

"Most music will eventually be accessed over smartphones such as Apple's iPhone and Research In Motion's BlackBerry, said Terry McBride, who manages Sarah McLachlan and Avril Lavigne."

"The smartphone is changing the music industry because of its platform and I predict most consumption of music will be through a smartphone in the future," McBride said in Cannes.

Read full article HERE:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10553302&pnum=0

Some Mobile Learning Options:

1. Eee PC 901,
2. Nokia N95 with bluetooth folding keyboard,
3. Nokia Xpressmedia 5800,
4. Nokia E90,
5. 3M MPro110 pico projector
6. Apple iPhone (not shown)
7. Palm Pre (not yet released)
8. Nokia N97 (not yet released)

You may notice an absence of windows mobile or Blackberry devices - this is by choice ;-) . I'm interested in devices that students will want to own and use, rather than 'business' focused devices.

Nokia XM5800 & MPro110

Here's the Nokia Xpressmusic smartphone connected to the 3M MPro110 pico projector!
Needs quite a dark environment to be effective.

Ning iPhone 1

Ning mobile version optimized for iPhone

Posted via Pixelpipe.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Nokia Share Online services

Screenshot of Noka XpressMusic 5800 Share Online destinations

Posted via Pixelpipe.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Why You Have To Jailbreak the iPhone - ReadWriteWeb

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/why_you_have_to_jailbreak_the_iphone.php

Sent from my iPhone

A way forward for learning

Here's a thought-provoking post!

A way forward for learning: "

Teemu Arina has a link on his blog to an article he wrote for his company blog on ‘Horizontal technologies for learning.’ The following definitional distinction between LMS and PLE is huge. It is a key insight into why education has barely moved into the connected age and why social technologies are, as he says, ‘a way forward’:

Horizontal integration is a way forward. In the eLearning sector many vendors have created eLearning solutions primarily for educational institutions. These technologies are supposedly designed for learning but that is not true. These technologies are institution-centric and vertical by nature. The concept of Learning Management System (LMS) was wrongly named. Better fit for a name would be Teaching Management System or Institution Control System.

No student would use the current so-called learning environments during their worktime or freetime. In 2006 I was at EC-TEL where Scott Wilson asked the audience full of educational technology specialists, ‘how many of you use a LMS for your personal learning?’. Surprise. No hands.

Social technologies are different. Blogs and wikis are already being implemented by learners themselves. Call them Personal Learning Environments (PLE) if you want but the key issue here is that they are based on user-centric design.

(Via Smart Mobs.)

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Pixelpipe mobile test

uploading from Pixelpipe on iPone

Posted via Pixelpipe.

PixelPipe

PixelPipe is a media uploading service for mobile and desktop that supports over 60 web2 services. It appears very similar to Shozu. It works via email or "Share Online" (Nokia NSeries only), iPhone App, or Android App for mobile uploads (No Java or WM App). This is a PixelPipe Uploader upload - testing Mobile upload soon.

Posted via Pixelpipe.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Picasa for Mac

Google have finally released a Mac version of their photo management/uploading/editing application Picasa. It's been a long-time favourite of mine on the PC, but I've usually defaulted to iPhonto on the Mac with Picasa and Flickr scripts for web uploading of photos or the Picasa web uploader application. While it's great to see it available for Mac, I'm not sure (yet) that it brings anything significant to the party - apart from better Blogger and Picasaweb albums integration. Perhaps if you are usually a PC user Picasa would feel like 'home'?

Download link HERE

Monday, December 22, 2008

Top 20 iPod Touch & iPhone apps

Here's my list of my top twenty apps (All on the iTunes Store for download - some free, some not):

1. Mail

Great for checking mail anywhere, anytime. Awesome preview of attachments (no saving :-( ). My favourite way to blog.


2. Safari

The best Mobile Web experience around!


3. NetNewsWire

For keeping up with all my RSS Feeds.


4. Fring

Instant Messaging extraordinaire!, also includes Skype, Gmail notifier, and Twitter posts.


5. Twitterriffic

Finally Twitter makes sense ;-)
Includes GPS and Photo microblogging to Twitter.


6. YouTube App

Search, bookmark, email, blob-out to YouTube Videos on the awesomely viewable screen!


7. Google App

Shortcut to Googles Mobile Web Services - formatted for iPhone.


8. Shozu

A social Media-blogging hub!


9. Google Earth

Cool maps! Zoom in on your house!


10. FourTrack

Ditch the cassette recorder - record your musical masterpieces in multitrack using FourTrack.


11. Caravan

Easy Mac & PC file-sharing with iPhone.


12. Bible reader

Carry a searchable Bible everywhere!


13. Path Tracker

Track your movements over Google Maps and savethe path - could be a great car-rally or treasure hunt tool!


14. Mobile Fotos

Flickr on your iPhone.


15. Band

Create some musical inspiration - WOW!


16. Comic Touch

Annotate your pics.


17. DecibelMeter

How load is that music???


18. iProRecorder

Record a voice note or audio PODCast.


19. Voice4Fun

Edit your audio recordings on the iPhone


20. Speedtest

Test how fast your internet connection is - is Telecom/Vodafone ripping you off???

Sunday, December 21, 2008

Beached Whale

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdVHZwI8pcA

Sent from my iPhone

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Billy Joel Concert

Stage - waiting to start!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

iPhone Music Video

Rap Music Video recorded entirely on iPhone using Jailbroken iPhone and Cycorda app.

I used Cycorder to shoot everything. This app rocks, but you can only use it if your phone is jailbroken, so go out and jailbreak your iPhone - you will thank me later. After Effects was used to edit the video because Final Cut didn’t like the resolution and frame rate that came out of Cycorder. I particularly like the look of the footage when it gets all warpy because the sensor can’t keep up with the motion. It kind of has this retro/film/stopmotion feel.

See the authors Blog

YouTube video HERE

Wednesday, December 03, 2008

MLearning the new (fun) frontier

http://wimba.netspot.com.au:80/wimba/player?action=display&rid=1-1226988860644&mid=87-1228211062495

Podcast interview after my presentation at Ascilite2008.

Sent from my iPhone

Nokia N97 Demo - the great Fondle Video

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-elt8MN3I

The N97 looks great, but it looks like the user interface is not as
slick or intuitive as the iPhone, and appears to require multiple
touches to achieve actions? Will have to try one out - can't wait
until June July09 :-)
This of course gives Apple time to introduce the iPhone v3 before
then! Here's hoping! Competition is great!!!

Sent from my iPhone

Nokia N97 Demo

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O2Li74EYew

Sent from my iPhone

Nokia N97 - Nseries with touch and QWERTY

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/8590_Nokia_N97-Nseries_with_QWERTY_.php

Sent from my iPhone

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

mLearning - Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning

mLearning - Using mobile technologies to develop new ways of teaching and learning

http://mlearning.uow.edu.au/


Sent from my iPhone

University of Woolongong mlearning project, a series of 6 week long mlearning trials using Palm Treo680 smartphones and iPods, funded by Australian govt.

Critique: short-term projects with unoptimum choices of technology!

Publishing affordances of mlearning - but will results be coloured by the projects limitations?!

See Ascilite2008 papers of the various case studies. Herrington et al. The study was supported by a team of 12 staff - wow! 12 people doing what I have been doing all on my own at Unitec!

Networked Student

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

Sent from my iPhone

Monday, December 01, 2008

Auzzie PrePaid Mobile Broadband

'3' have a PrePaid mobile broadband data 'account' option - I'm using this while in Melbourne for ASCILITE2008!

Cost is $10 for the SIM card, $29/month for 2GB data

This is pretty good value & no long term contract required!

AND you can use your own 3G Modem - I'm using a NZ Vodafone 3G Expresscard Modem with the '3" SIM. Only downside is some of the activation process requires the '3' modem software, and it's a pain having to remove cookies to get beyond the 'activation' page each connection :-(

Ascilite2008 Conference

Friday, November 21, 2008

Subway Mobile!

The ubiquitous nature of mobile connectivity is illustrated by the availability of a Subway Express downloadable application for mobile phones for ordering subway sammies from anywhere anytime - as well as "learner generated contexts" we also now have "consumer generated eating" ;-)

Cost = 20c per order - as the application forwards your order as a txt message.

Download yours HERE

Blackberry Storm 9500

The Blackberry Storm 9500 touch-screen smartphone has been getting some good reviews, including from Mac users! e.g:
MacWorld review

The Storm has a couple of features that give it an edge over the iPhone in specifications,

• Cut and Paste


• Higher resolution camera: 3.2MP


• Video recording

However, it BIG limitation is the lack of WiFi!!! WiFi has become a BASIC feature of smartphones, and is critical in educational settings as WiFi provides cost-effective (FREE) access to the Internet on campus for students, whereas the 3G only Storm will cost $$$ for EVERYTHING the students do! :-(

Blackberry are still in a business users mode!

Monday, November 17, 2008

WOA - electronic musicians - SLOrk and "iBand"!!!

Check out this amazing 'band' - all using iPhone/iPod touch music applications to form a band! They have some great videos and audio samples on their website - awesome!

iBand

iPhone Drumming demo:





iBand performance:

SLOrk

Currently highlighted on Apples website is SLOrk - the Stanford Laptop Orchestra!

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/slork/





http://slork.stanford.edu/

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Mourning the End of the Mobile Projects

Students mourn the return of their smartphones at the end of mobile learning projects at Unitec 2008!



Mourning the N95



“This is what I am left with!


It cannot…


Take Photos


Email


Check the wind


Make videos


Be my friend


Tell me where Ennismore Rd is


Or how to get there


Take more photos


Do other internet things


Film this


Be my calendar,


Reminder,


Or memory


(I have a bad memory)


The screen on this is tiny


There is no -


Sports tracker


Bouncy ball


Keyboard


VOX


Location Tag


YouTube


Plus all the rest


I miss my N95


Everything else


Doesn’t


Cut


It”

Mobile Learning Reflections

A series of student reflections on some of the Mobile Learning Trials at Unitec 2008.

Diploma Contemporary Music - iPod/iPhones

Bachelor Product Design (Year2) N95

Bachelor Product Design (Year1) iPhones

Diploma Landscape Design - Sonyericsson P1i

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Txttools

Txttools is an SMS (short message service, or text messaging) solution for organizations, including education. There are two main ways to use txttools:

1. Web interface at http://www.txttools.co.uk


2. LMS plugins for Blackboard or Moodle

Features:

• Create groups


• Integration with user profiles in Moodle or Blackboard - i.e. txttools plugin recognises groups, and mobile phone numbers in user profiles.


• Database of sent and received txt messages


• Statistics monitoring - showing sent/received status of messages for each user.


• Automated actions via administrator defined keywords


• Automatic registration of users by txting a keyword to a dedicated txttools number


• Cost confidence - cost = annual license fee, not per message.

Below is the Web Management interface for Txttools:

Moodle Txttools plugins screenshots:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Fring on iPhone

Another free IM client for the iPhone/iPod touch. I've used Fring for a while on a range of Symbian based phones (they also have a Java version) - it's unique feature is the support for Skype over Wifi on the iPhone/iPod touch (Fring supports Skype over 3G in its other versions in addition to WiFi). Fring can be a bit flakey - being a bit of a memory hog, and requires a good signal to logon. However I prefer Fring's interface to that of Palringo or AIM. Previously I have used IM+ on UIQ, which I thought the interface was really nice, however IM+ seems to have logon issues with MSN servers now :-(

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

iProrecorder for iPhone

Finally a decent audio recorder for the iPhone!

Thursday, October 16, 2008

DipMusic iPod/iPhone Trial Overview

I've put together a 10min overview of the Diploma of Contemporary Music iPod/iPhone Trial for 2008 - makes for fun viewing!

DipContemporaryMus Mobile Trial Overview

Student Smartphone Usage

A quick survey of what students are using their N95 smartphones for (Bachelor of Product Design, Year3, 2008)

MLearn2008 Pics

Link to Picasa slideshow of MLearn2008 pics
http://picasaweb.google.com/thomcochrane/MLearn2008#slideshow

MLearn2008

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

MLearn 2008

MLearn 2008, the good, the bad and the ugly!

The Good:

• Meeting great people doing cool stuff in MLearning!


• Conversations


• Two great social events - Visiting Ironbridge and the RAF museum


• Getting inspiration both theoretically and practically for MLearning in education


• Experimenting with RFID and Bluetooth


• Getting great feedback on projects and presentations


• Discovering edutxt and Steve setting up an international SMS number for us poor international attendees! - still cost more than local SMS though :-(

The Bad:

• The conference venue facilities - described by someone as modelled on "Fawlty Towers"!


• RFID and Bluetooth system not working until the last day!


• lack of air-conditioning or temperature control in rooms


• Long research papers that should have been relegated to short papers, and short papers that should have been full papers! Defining good methodologies and research questions but having little practical value shouldn't qualify for full papers!



• Printed Conference timetable missing two venues on Friday!


• Compare' mumbling incoherently into microphone - no presentation skills whatsoever!

The Ugly:

• Presentation facilities - almost third world! - bad or no sound, small screens


• Some presentations even had no video projector available - "sorry but it wasn't requested" - arrrrggggg! It should be default setup!


• The assumption that all presenters would use Powerpoint and Talk!


• WiFi access $45 per day!!!


• Having to resort to Roaming 3G data costs for connectivity!

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Nokia Xpressmedia 5800

The Nokia touchscreen smartphone is finally official. See a Flickr slideshow of the device here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahintampa/sets/72157607671323920/show/

Overview here: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_5800_xpressmusic_hits_it_off-news-612.php

More here: http://www.nokia.co.nz/5800xpressmusic

Thursday, September 25, 2008

G1 to iPhone is What Linux is to Mac OS

There's a nice quick comparison between the iPhone and the new Google Android powered G1 at Mashable:

G1 to iPhone is What Linux is to Mac OS: "

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

MLearning Case Studies

The MLearning trials at Unitec this year have mostly been going really well, particularly the Bachelor of Product Design trials. Here's a few resources overviewing these trials:




MLearning Slideshow:



MLearning Overview Workshop Notes:

http://ctliwiki.unitec.ac.nz/index.php/MlearningWorkshops

Friday, September 19, 2008

BDesign student presents Vox blogging to Certificate students

Well done Noel on a great presentation on the benefits of blogging for Product Design to the Certificate students - give that man a chocolate fish ;-)

Captured using N95 & uploaded to YouTube:

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