Dial M for Learning: mLearning ideas

If you’re not sure what RSS is and how to use it then go to this website. The folks who put this page together really do mean EVERYTHING! Enjoy.

The 4th World Conference on Mobile Learning, mLearn 2005, was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 25 to 28 October 2005.

Abstracts & papers from the conference are available for download in PDF.

mLearn 2006 will be held in Banff, Canada 22-25 October.

FreewarePalm has lots of free, downloadable programs for your Palm. You could spend a month looking for things, but a quick look at recently added programs in the Educational section includes the following, which will give you an idea of the type of stuff that’s there.

AuSlang v1.2
A must-have if you’re reading this blog & you’re not an Aussie!! This is a collection of Australian sayings for anyone wanting to visit Australia, knows Australians, or Aussies needing to brush up their Slang. (I haven’t tested it for accuracy yet!)

Spanish Verbs
Regular Spanish regular verbs and their conjugations.

Species Inventory v6.3.3
The Species Inventory application assists with creating, sharing, and managing sighting logs that are formatted as tab delimited text so they easily import to a spreadsheet application such as OpenOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel.

There are a lot of annoying banners & ads – but that’s what you have to put up with to get free stuff Maybe there’s something useful there for your mLearning students.

LearnEnglish is a free site that helps learners and teachers of English. LearnEnglish comes to you from the British Council, the United Kingdom’s international organisation for educational and cultural relations.

There are stacks of tips and activities on the site. You can test your skills in vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading.

LearnEnglish Kids is a fun part of the site. Find games, songs, stories and activities about all sorts of topics. And learn English!