24/09/2007 by nicola.

Sorry, takıng a break from laptop/s and technology in general - back in a week
Fethiye is on the south - southwest coast of Turkey - huge harbour - popular sailing area for tourists. İts not as overly developed as some of Bodrum - Hisaronu around the corner is ! İnteresting that public access to wifi from mobile phones etc is now much more widespread than the UK - lots of free access points - regardless of how expensive the cafe is or where it is situated.
Trying to adjust my brain back to using a Turkish keyboard….did you know that there wasn’t a W in the Turkish language before the world wide web appeared but now they have had to include it - interesting that the web can even change an alphabet

Fethiye photos now on Flickr

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20/09/2007 by nicola.

http://tonyo.blogspot.com/2007/09/online-reader-on-mobile-phones-and.html

Tonyo has compiled a very useful list of papers and articles on the use of mobile phones for activism. It includes research papers, presentations and commentaries. It includes the excellent article by Katrin Verclas about how or how not to run a mobile advocacy campaign.

Mobile Active website is a great news resources for interesting ways that people are using their mobile phones across the world.

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20/09/2007 by nicola.

http://www.trymango.com/
Tried the Spanish one for a few mins, ok its not top of the range Language stuff, but you can replay the words as much as you need, it has little tips to suggest stress on words and I think its a good resource. I got confused initially with the clock, I thought it meant it was recording my responses before the time limit, but overall its easy to follow and estoy muy bien gracias.

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

I was sent details of this new, educational website called “The Potato Story”

http://www.thepotatostory.com

Its a really interactive, well designed site.

The website is an initiative from McCain Foods that also supports the ‘Year of Food and Farming’. It has been developed to provide primary school children with fun and engaging tools to learn about things like food provenance, plant growth and nutrition. The resource also allows cross-curriculum links to ICT, literacy and numeracy at Key Stage 2.

the-potato-story-info-sheet.doc

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

http://www.seriousgamesinstitute.co.uk/media.aspx?item=90

It was particularly useful to see corporate as well as general education uses of virtual worlds, there are now different options for deciding on levels of realism for graphics, avatars, movement.

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

This has probably been around for some time, but I only came across it recently:

http://www.wapedia.org/en/ Has over 1.5 million articles, the screenshot helps visualise what you can expect to see. Nice idea.

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

http://www.biskero.org/?p=1774
This post has a link to a Flash lite (Flash for mobile devices incl phones) tutorial.

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

http://www.vflyerwiki.com/wiki/doku.php?id=mobile

Another sign that the mobile advertising industry is on the increase, vFlyer allows publishing of standard flyers on mobile phones or devices. Navigation and design looks very similar to mLearning which is interesting.

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

http://www.digitallearning.in/news/news-details.asp?NewsID=10287&inc=1

A school in South Africa has become the first to implement a mobile eLearning infrastructure using laptops and headphones across wireless networks.The pilot is the result of a Public Private Partnership (PPP), where the state government partners with related private companies such as Microsoft and IBM

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19/09/2007 by nicola.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/2zdbuc

Almost unnoticed, Nepal is developing simple and cheap technologies that make the best of local resources and don’t damage the environment.This article describes how Nepal is using traditional methods and resisting temptation of large-scale development of technologies.Whilst they might not get a greater economic payback in the short-term, villages themselves are finding ways to improve their lives without causing mass damage to the environment.

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