This is certainly a more modest event than the launch of the iPhone (and we hope we don’t steal too much of Steve Jobs’ thunder), but we are excited to launch our own mobile initiative today. Premium users can now access a variety of learning tools at m.spanishsense.com, and m.chinesepod.com.
The mobile sites provide…
a) Discussion, Dialogue, […]
Archive for June, 2007
Learn Spanish and Chinese with the iPhone
Published by June 29th, 2007 in Features and Mobile learning. 42 Comments
Well, since we’re all mobile, all the time this week, I have a blog I want to share with you. It’s called The Law of Mobility and it’s based on the author’s premise that ‘the value of any product or service increases with its mobility’. Hmmm.
Now this chap is no slouch. His name is Russ […]
Lee’s latest comments on m-learning have taken the discussion in a slightly technical direction, and covered some of the current obstacles to a good mobile web experience. It seems like a good opportunity then to explain why we think this is about to change, and to discuss some of the technical choices we’ve made.
The mobile […]
Recently I talked about how m-learning will give us the freedom to learn wherever we please. Some people responded to the effect that: “But I can just take my book and go sit under a tree to read somewhere. Books (flashcards, etc) are just as portable. What’s the difference?”
Let me try to elaborate. Reading […]
Continuing on our theme of mobile learning (with all the iPhone madness going on), I thought this presentation by Ajit Jaokar from futuretext entitled “Mobile Web 2.0, Mobile Widgets, Microlearning and Intertwingularity” fit right in:
We’ve made a number of big additions to the service recently (i.e. The Fix, Qing Wen, and soon to be released mobile review site) so we’ve updated the Product Comparison Charts to help you choose the subscription that suits your needs.
We are in the midst of adding The Fix and a QA show […]
Any portable (usually hand-held) device used to communicate over a wireless network has the potential for mobile-learning: cell phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. We believe the near ubiquity of these devices will bring mobile, or ‘m-learning’ into prominence in the next 2 to 3 years. (Actually, there are many other trends out there that suggest this […]
What with us being in China, and you all being scattered around the globe, timezones have presented a bit of an issue for the Practice service. With a bit of flexibility we’ve always been able to schedule sessions, but we knew eventually the service would need to be offered 24 hours a day. We’re happy […]
We’ve made some innovations in listening recently. This is part of an overall development focus and reflects a belief in the vital importance of innovation. Never before has it been possible for the humble instructional designer to collaborate with communities of language learners in the ways that we now can. In fact, it […]
Today with the help of Netvibes we are launching a ‘Netvibes Universe’ for both ChinesePod and SpanishSense. Netvibes is a leading provider of personalized homepages, along with iGoogle, Pageflakes, etc. We have been looking at a number of ways to customize the learning experience and using Netvibes is one good way to start along […]
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