I am the eLearning coordinator at ITM (Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp) and as such also exploring the mLearning realm and using and implementing certain mobile tools. The institute I work for has several partners in the South with a lot of them in low resource areas. Mobile solutions are on the rise in developing countries and in some places they are skipping the landlines, so this makes mobile learning a very thrilling research field.

My eLearning blog: ignatiawebs.blogspot.com My LinkedIn profile: www.linkedin.com/in/ingedewaard

Ignatia's Top 10 Tools as at 6 August 2008

1. Opera mini browser: this browser saves me on download time and size (which comes down to saving money).

2. Find.mobi  mobile search engine delight.

3. Qik  real live streaming right from your mobile. Great for immediate sharing of knowledge or teaching on the go.

4. Socialight Mixtape  is a great way to mix/edit your own mobile walking tour. Really great also for mlearning, for example if you want to make a tour on the Georgian architecture, the first Women Entrepreneurs in a city ...

5. Quickmark  s a really cool QRcode reader that can easily be installed and catches QRcodes quickly and efficiently.

6. Flickr mobile for my mobile on the go shots.

7. YouTube mobile for really easy uploading of mobile videos.

8. Mobile active  keeps me informed on great mobile projects throughout the world.

9. Fring (VOIP)  which keeps me connected to other mobile colleagues and friends. Looking forward to the Fring mini, which promises to be a solution for global cell phones that are not VOIP enabled.

10. Google mobile maps -  I like to wander around cities that I visit, but google maps makes sure I can find my way back as well.