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So everyware is coming. These little rabbits can already do quite a lot of things as being your alarm clock, read RSS feeds, podcasts or receive messages.

NABAZTAG:TAG by Violet in English

GPS mission is a new app on the iPhone and a web based application. It says the world is your playground, you have an online mission editor with which you can edit the mission flow, bonus items users can collect, define photo tasks, and edit other details. You have direct access to the map and can connect these things to locations. This is quite similar to what we worked on some years ago in the Remote Access to Field Trip Project (Beside the Videconferenceing things). Nice interface on the iPhone, well used combination of gaming location based services and multi interface stuff.

You can share and distribute your missions with others.
Try it out! Soon you can play some of my mission in Bonn if you come to visit ;-)

http://gpsmission.com/

enkin supports users not only in map, and 3D mode but also in live mode. Basically you can walk around in your environment and take the camera view to look at and see the placemarks embedded. This gives interesting option for seamlessly integration annotation information in the live environment.

See http://www.enkin.net/ also have a look at the enkin blog http://enkinblog.blogspot.com/

Great work !

At the german LearnTec 2008 tradeshow I participated in a session on contextualized learning: “Lernen im Kontext, Technologien, Anwendungen und didaktische
Perspektiven:Was bringt das Internet of Things für mobiles und
situiertes Lernen?” you can find my slides in DSPACE at http://hdl.handle.net/1820/1177

The session organized by Prof. Schrader from ISNM Luebeck was on contextualized Learning. Other speakers were Ing. Bashar Al Takrouri and Dr. phil. Thomas Winkler.

I came across an episode archive from the handheld learning conference in 2007.

Find it at: http://handheldlearning.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc

Last friday I participated in a workshop at the DIN - Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. in Berlin and gave a lecture about recent works on mobile social software for learning with the title “State of the Art Mobile Social Software for Learning” and a Reference Model of Mobile Social Software (Content, Context, Information flow, Purpose, Pedagogical model). In the wrokshop we created an interesting collection of future scenarios of Mobile Learning.

You can get the presentation from OUNL DSPACE here.

Together with Fridolin Wild and Sebastian Kelle at the Prolearn Summerschool in Frejus I gave a workshop on SecondLife:

Second life and educational processes
Fridolin Wild, WUW & Marcus Specht, OUNL & Sebastian Kelle, WUW

Furthermore I gave a lecture on Personalization and Contextualization for Learning you can view in Prolearn TV here.

Oy is a system of between-stop informal gaming by Andy Huntington (Andy has a list of very interesting projects on his website at http://www.extraversion.co.uk/about.html).

The OY Project!
Participants send in text messages in the bus and have to answer question like in which sequence will we see some places on the bus route. The game also use GPS data of the bus. Nice idea. I like the approach in the sense of combination of different channels. Using SMS senders for information in and public displays for information out.

There is a nice list of mobile social software applications maintained by Timo Arnall at

http://www.elasticspace.com/2004/06/mobile-social-software .

Also Nicolas Nova maintains a nice blog pasta and vinegar http://tecfa.unige.ch/perso/staf/nova/blog/ where he reports some recent works about context aware and location aware applications.