Saturday, May 13, 2006

mLearning Toolbox: Social Networking Goes Mobile

The Mobile Learning and Pervasive Computing web site is designed to provide a portal to the latest information on mobile learning and pervasive computing for trainers and educators at all levels from elementary education through higher education.

This is an excellent portal for all things related to mLearning. Be sure to check out the resources link for mlearning pedagogy, tech tips, and articles related to using mobile devices in an educational context.

MySpace has teamed with Helio to provide a customized MySpace enabled phone that includes access to Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, and various My Yahoo! services. Streaming video can be accessed via CNN, IGN, Slate, Comedy Central, and SpikeTV.

YouTube, the popular online video community, has also recently launched a service that allows users to upload video clips via their mobile phones, PDAs, or other wireless handheld devices.

Facebook also announced that it will launch a mobile version of the popular social networking service. The Kansas City Star notes that Facebook's mobile services will be available to more than 2,000 universities by the end of this month and high school users by early May 2006.

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