MoLeNET winners go public!

Thanks to the LSN, we have just seen the first, complete list of Colleges and FE Consortia that won slices of the £6m MoLeNET fund.

Congratulations all and good luck with your projects! We look forward to seeing how they turn out

They are:

Aylesbury College	Handheld Pathways – mobile applications for the LLDD provision
Bolton Community College	EISL Project - Extending, Inspiring and Supporting Learning through the use of Mobile Technologies
Boston College	Assessing the impact of m-learning with Work Based Learners undertaking Apprenticeships across Rural Lincolnshire
Bournville College of Further Education	M-learning 4 those who care.
Brockenhurst College	brock.mobi - mLog
Cardinal Newman College	Teaching & Learning : Technology Driven - Quality Driven
Chichester College	Any time, any place, anywhere.
City of Wolverhampton College	Wolverhampton Learning to Go Further!
Cornwall College	Mobile Learning Network across Cornwall
Coulsdon College	Mobile learning for literacy (level 1) students
East Berkshire College	Mobile Learning at East Berkshire College
Eccles College	Mobile IN Salford
Gateshead College	Supporting Science in the Field (SSIF)
Gloucestershire College	Glossy - Mobile Learning in Gloucestershire
Havering Sixth Form College	Using Mobile Technologies in the Classroom, at Home and in the Field to support Minority Teaching Groups (MoLeMINT)
Huddersfield Technical College	m4m Project - m-Learning 4 m-People
Kingston College	KAMPUS: Kingston Access to Mobile Personalisation using Ultra-portable Services
Lewisham College	Wireless Blended Learning for Work Based Learners (WBL 4 WBL)
Lowestoft College	Widening participation Through Mobile Learning
Matthew Boulton College of F&HE	m-strategy in Birmingham (msb)
New College Swindon	Mypodcast Developing innovative approaches to personalised learning.
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education	Harnessing Technology Towards Personalisation (HTTP)
Oaklands College	The MoLeMentors project
Regent College	Improved Learner engagement for 14-19 year olds in the foundation tier and NEET groups using mobile technology
South Thames College	Mobile Inclusion: using mobile technology to fight gang and gun culture
Stockport College	Learning on the Go (LoG) (inc stockport ALS learners)
Stratford-upon-Avon College	MobTec in Action
Tower Hamlets College	Adding m to the mix
Weston College	Wider Weston
Worcester College of Technology	Herefordshire and Worcestershire Vodcasting and Podcasting Consortium

NokMote - Wii style interface with your Nokia !!

Here at moblearn we love people who challenge the way we use our technology, and challenge our assumptions about interfaces.

The iPhone / iPod Touch did that for me with its web browsing. Tactile zooming. Automatic rotation.

But did you know some of the same magic is available for Nokia N95?

Like the iPhone, it has an accelerometer inside, but until now it wasn't used for much.

Until, that was, a french programmer called Samir got hold of it ... and produced NokMote. Check out the video - and be sure to watch the end bit, where he uses the phone as a remote control. Amazing!

gPhone anyone?

Finally, some tangible news about the gPhone, or "Google phone"!

It turns out there isn’t going to be a physical device at all, but rather a heavy-weight alliance (the open handset alliance ) who are getting together to create an open source platform for mobile devices.

Loads of big names are involved: Google, HTC, LG, Motorola, Samsung, T-mobile, Intel….

Notable absences: Nokia and Vodafone

The platform is currently called "Android", and if you have ever tried developing software for phones, you will love all the promises that seem custom-made to make battle-weary J2ME and Symbian developers smile once again:

Android does not differentiate between the phone's core applications and third-party applications. They can all be built to have equal access to phone's capabilities

Android is built on the open Linux Kernel

With Android, a developer could build an application that enables users to view the location of their friends and be alerted when they are in the vicinity giving them a chance to connect.

which means I really really can use the phone features

There will be a publicly accessible repository, similar to how the Linux kernel is managed.

which means I can un-install those default apps I don't want

To find out more, look at the Official Google Blog: Where's my Gphone?


Great news all round. Now, lets hold our m-breaths to see if it really can offer what it claims, and if those phone manufacturers really do deliver.



ps: thanks to Bob and Juan who got me onto this