RPP #40: Mobile Phones for e-Learning and Emergency Broadcasts

Topics covered during this 23 minute podcast were prompted by the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech:

• Mobile Phones in Education - Cell phones as Web 2.0 tools
  
• Google's Mobile Browser - Google and LG will preinstall Google Maps, Gmail and Blogger on a wide variety of LG phones
• Mobile Phones: Time-to-adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years - from The Horizon Report (a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative) a research-oriented effort that identifies and describes emerging technologies having an impact on teaching and learning

• SMS - Short Messaging System - This Wikipedia article explains the technology that allows the sending of "short" (160 characters or less) text messages
  

• New Phone Technologies Can Help Colleges Communicate Campuswide in Emergencies - This Chronicle of Higher Education article will be available to non-subscribers for up to five days

• Mobile Phone (SMS and Voice) Messaging Services
• Click-a-Tell
  
• Code Red
  
• e2campus
• Group2Call - specializes in voice and sms messaging
  
• Mobile Campus
• Omnilert
  
• Rave Wireless
  
• Roam Secure - used by Alert Philadelphia
• Vontoo - specializes in voice messaging

• Twitter - A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: "What are you doing?"
  
• Twitter and the Virginia Tech Emergency - Blog entry about new uses for Twitter, including the use in emergency situations

• Podsafe Music Selections from Magnatune
• Concerto No. 4 in G Minor (Winter) by the American Baroque Orchestra. The full CD entitled "The Four Seasons by Vivaldi" is available at magnatune.com