Notre Dame

  • Poll Everywhere - half dozen faculty using
  • No portal
  • Google Android - exploring
  • Open Moco - exploring
  • Chris has played with HTML for mobile - http://www.nd.edu/~cclark2/mobile/
    (Dreamweaver page properties illustration at right)

Wake Forest

  • Long-term project with PDAs - had 200+ at one time
  • Developed apps
  • Business model for universal cell phone idea was a killer
  • Perhaps they were too far out on the bleeding edge
  • Lately things have fallen off, but students are asking for it again
  • Groups go to Europe and take smartphones for data collection
  • Some education majors also use smartphones in classrooms
  • Library app with text messaging for location of books

Maryland

  • Portal
  • Blackboard portlet
  • Clickers with Responseware Web
  • Myview (?)
  • Map-routing app for students in wheelchairs
  • Some faculty are experimenting, including a Comp Sci prof
  • Have been talking to ClearText (?)

Georgia

  • Web group tried a while ago to make main pages accessible
  • Also have security alert system that has had some glitches

North Carolina

Maryland

  • Mobility Initiative features
  • Portal
  • Blackboard portlet
  • Clickers with Responseware Web
  • MyeVyu
  • Map-routing app for students in wheelchairs
  • Some faculty are experimenting

Pitt

  • Would like to have student response system

VA Tech

  • Discovered that Sakai has a mobile compatible component, but have not explored it
  • John mentioned MIT - http://mobi.mit.edu/

Florida

  • Adopted Mobile Campus for emergency notification
  • College of Business - web group exploring
  • Internet MBA program provides iPod Touch
  • Have podcast server
  • University's "Technology Innovations Advisory Committee" is looking at mobile devices

LTC