A guide to choosing and using a portable digital audio recorder, covering everything from digital dictaphones to professional field recorders. If you need a self-contained device for recording audio on location, audio note taking, or for any other scenario where recording with a computer is impractical or inconvenient, this document examines the alternatives.
Read full advice document...A guide to the types of headphones available for various listening tasks, their features, strengths, weaknesses and relative merits. This guide is intended to help users choose the best type of headphones for their needs.
Read full advice document...A guide to the creation and use of AAC compressed audio resources. AAC is the successor to the popular MP3 format, and this document explains its advantages over MP3, as well as its place within the wider MPEG-4 media family.
Read full advice document...Examining the potential uses of mobile phones and other mobile devices as simple voice recording and audio blogging tools.
Read full advice document...This document introduces the subject of mobile learning for education purposes. It examines what impact mobile devices have had on teaching and learning practices and goes on to look at the opportunities presented by the use of digital media on mobile devices.
Read full advice document...Following a little research into audio recording on an Android device, a couple of observations...
Read blog entry...Figures show Open University's iTunes U success driven by mobile learning and iOS.
Read blog entry...The new official Moodle app for iPhone offers some very interesting media capture and embedding functions, and many other features for accessing and uploading to Moodle on the move...
Read blog entry...It has been possible to operate a digital SLR from a mobile device for some time but this has required a direct conection between the camera and a PC.
Read blog entry...I was invited to open the Bath Spa e-learning staff development day on Tuesday 5th July.
Read blog entry...On Monday Steve Wheeler wrote a blog post on mobile and student owned devices which I thought I'd respond to here. Please read the post and comments and then come back.
Read blog entry...A simple way to help retrieve a lost or stolen mobile device is to create a custom home screen with contact instructions for the 'finder'.
Read blog entry...These tips, tricks and resources will help you learn new things, find helpful resources and make you more productive.
Read blog entry...Latest iPod Touch adds microphone and cameras
Read blog entry...This document introduces the subject of Mobile Learning for Education purposes.
Read blog entry...This post will be regularly updated with our findings of other people's mobile experiences and will include reports and presentations. If you have additions that you feel will be of use to the community please leave them in the comments.
Read blog entry...Over at Techcrunch, Michael Seibel of Justin.tv highlights several problems with live video on the web.

Since the unfortunate incident with a canal barge in Oxford I have no Apple iphone. Some have laughed. Most grimaced due to the cost of replacement (around £350) but none of them realise that I don't care about the phone.
Read blog entry...We have a new advice document now online, looking at using your mobile phone as a portable audio recorder:
Using a Mobile Phone as an Audio Recorder
Read blog entry...First impressions of the Voice Memo function in the new v3.0 iPhone software and comparison with an equivalent existing utility.
Read blog entry...This coming Thursday (11th June 2009) the BBC's Internet blog will be having a Mobile day.
Read blog entry...A new 'audio blogging' service has launched which might be worth keeping an eye on.
Read blog entry...SlideShare, the web service that allows sharing of presentations that we have recently covered in an advice document, has just launched a mobile version. This now further simpifies using the service with a mobile device.
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