Daniel Pink talks about motivation. Fascinating and persuasive.

Telephony!

Lately it's been phones everywhere I look.  Part of this may be my own passionate desire for an iPhone, but it seems that the topic of phones in the classroom has become increasingly vital and relevant. 

Also, increasingly heated.  There's are concerns being raised about the distraction, about cheating, and about bullying. These are issues that we need to address.  This video by David Truss makes some excellent points:

The POD's are Coming

View more presentations from David Truss.

At any rate. - on to the links!

The Mobile Learner is a blog devoted entirely to the discussion of the uses of mobile technologies in the classroom! It seems to be updated regularly. I put it on my bloglines.  http://themobilelearner.wordpress.com/

This entry at The Clever Sheep blog looks at both sides of the cellphone debate, and provides lots of links to commentary.  

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.com/2008/04/cell-phones-in-classroom.html

Liz Kolb has made this something of a specialty of hers. This website for the K12 Online Conference has a page with plenty of resources, and a video of her very informative presentation.

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=152

This entry on the Teaching Palette, is fantastic! The thirty best new iPhone aps for art teachers - hurrah! 

 http://theteachingpalette.com/index.php?s=mobile