Ubiquitous Thoughts

It’s Monday, so time for a new Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted this week on the allaboutiPhone blog. Lots of interesting posts as usual. My favorite of the week is the SmartMob post on alternative 2008 Olympic coverage. If you’re as sick as I am of the NBC commentators and their coverage which seems to [...]

The Journal of the Research Center for Educational Technology provides a multimedia forum for the advancement of scholarly work on the effects of technology on teaching and learning. This online journal seeks to provide unique avenues for the dissemination of knowledge within the field of educational technology consistent with new and emergent pedagogical possibilities. The Journal [...]

Since my last post on the Net Neutrality debate, there have been some developments that are positive. On August 1st, the FCC punished ComCast for illegally blocking Internet content. For the full story, see the SavetheInternet site, and particularly this post on the historic FCC decision. An excerpt: In a landmark decision, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and [...]

After a short break, I’m back. While I was on vacation doing nothing, the Carnivals just kept on coming. Here are the most recent ones: Carnival #133 at Vision Mobile (lots of posts about the iPhone 3G) Carnival #134 at MoPocket (with a nice post about mobile learning by Judy Breck) Carnival #135 at Mobile Point View (an Olympic-themed [...]

Oops, missed last week’s Carnival of the Mobilists, hosted by mjelly. And yes, another Monday today, and another Carnival this week by newcomer Mippin Blog. I can’t keep up! Image Credit: Carnival of the Mobilists, Logo: http://www.mobili.st/images/cotm-button.jpg

It’s in your pocket: teaching spectacularly with cell phones. Great speech by Hall Davidson from Discovery Education Network about using mobile phones in education, the kind of talk many teachers and administrators need to hear. The first thing Hall said was to take out and turn on our cell phones There is a large potential [...]

And among all of the NECC action, there is also a new Carnival of the Mobilists at London Calling: Another huge week in Mobile – Nokia acquires Symbian, Virgin buys Helio and I still haven’t got a Nokia E71 (my hints to Nokia are clearly not obvious enough…). You’ll just have to head over to London Calling [...]

  SIGHC held its first forum at NECC this year. We had presenters from both the US and the UK. Even though I had to moderate the event, I was able to listen in on Tony Vincent as well as David Whyley and Jill Purcell from the UK. Tony Vincent’s breakouts focused on web apps (and netbooks [...]

  Notes from David Thornburg’s presentation early Monday morning. Nothing too revolutionary here, but a fairly interesting talk nonetheless. Given the changes in technology, our question has changed from “given current classroom practices, how should technology change?” to “given current technology, how should classroom practice change?” When looking at it from a global perspective, we need access [...]

James Surowiecki spoke in front of a packed house last night. Here are my, somewhat incomplete, notes from his speech, as I was fighting with my wireless connection during the presentation: James Surowiecki keynote. Author of The wisdom of crowds Under the right conditions, groups of people can be very intelligent collectively. Collective intelligence improves a group’s ability [...]

And so it goes. After some great play in the group stage, the Dutch just couldn’t get it going in the quarterfinal against Russia on Saturday. While I’m deeply disappointed in the fact that they lost, I think the team gave the fans (including me), some great games early on and lots to cheer about. [...]

Yes, the Carnivals keep on coming! This week’s Carnival is hosted by Rudy de Waele at m-trends, where the topic of choice seems to be location-based services … Image Credit: Carnival of the Mobilists, Logo: http://www.mobili.st/images/cotm-button.jpg

Despite already having qualified, a highly mobile Dutch squad of mostly reserves easily beat Romania today.  The highlight was Robin van Persie’s goal, a rocket of a shot to settle the game at 2-0. They’ll play either Sweden or Russia on Saturday. I’m up for it, I think Oranje will be too   Image Credits: [...]

As sent to me by Graham Brown-Martin: As an extra we’re providing you with a discount code for all the SIGHC members and those attending the SIGHC Forum at NECC that provides an additional 5% discount on registration against the already discounted early bird registration that includes the free Nintendo DS and game as well as access to [...]

This is the second time this year that I have the honor of hosting the Carnival of the Mobilists, a collection of some of the best writing about mobile over the past week. I decided to make it a sports-themed carnival this week, as Euro 2008 is in full swing and there is a carnival-like [...]

And when I thought things couldn’t get any better after Holland’s 3-0 victory against the Italians …. a crushing 4-1 victory against France earlier today at Euro 2008, with each goal even better than the one before. The 1-0 by Kuyt was nice, the 2-0 by van Persie was preceded by some incredible footwork by [...]

A quick update as some of the deadlines have been extended. From the Handheld Learning newsletter: :::> Handheld Learning 2008 http://www.handheldlearning2008.com/ Wow! Delegate places are going faster than ever this year with over half of our initial allocation already sold. Is it the offer of the free Nintendo DS and game that you get to keep or is [...]

I’ll be off to San Antonio for NECC in a little more than two weeks. The venue sort of makes things come full circle, as my I attended my first NECC there in 2002. Here are the events that I will be involved in this year: SIGHC Forum: Mobile Devices Are Reshaping the Way We Learn  Mark van’t Hooft, Kent [...]

  Not mobile technology, but very mobile players!! That’s how the Dutch beat Italy last night, for the first time in 30 years (I remember watching the last victory on TV in 1978, this time I watched it on the Internet)!! It was definitely worth the wait. Here are the highlights, I’ve probably watched them a [...]

This week’s Carnival is hosted by WapReview. Lots of good writing this week with a wide variety of topics being covered. I’ll be hosting next week’s Carnival, so don’t be shy, send in your entries to mobilists@gmail.com! Image Credit: Carnival of the Mobilists, Logo: http://www.mobili.st/images/cotm-button.jpg