Here is a cool iPhone-in-education idea from OllieBray.com. Ollie discusses a number of features that make the iPhone a handy tool to help aid learning and data collection in fieldwork. The screenshots below show some of the iPhone Apps that Ollie identifies as useful for fieldwork.

He writes, “The Notes feature that comes with the iPhone is a fantastic free application that I have been using a lot since getting my phone. It could be used out in the field for students to record data and when you have finished typing a note, you can send it directly to an email address.

However, there are also a number of good free applications for the iPhone that allow you to up-load straight to a blog. I currently use both the Typepad and Wordpress Application. This means that students could set up a fieldwork blog before they leave the classroom and up-load their data from their iPhone straight onto their on-line space. One back in class the blog could be further edited and tidied up.”

He goes on to suggest that the camera that is built into the iPhone is a useful application for students to take photographs in the field. Photographs can be emailed back to the class or they attached to Wordpress or Typepad posts and up-loaded to a fieldwork blog.

AirMe is an application that allows you to up-load photographs directly to Flickr. You can also choose to geo-tag your photographs and add current weather data if you want to. This is useful because the geo-tagged photographs appear on a Yahoo map, which can be included as part of the fieldwork enquiry or embedded into your fieldwork blog.

Ollie also discusses how maps, GPS and Track Me, interviews and voice recording functionality, data gathering tools like the stopwatch and timer are all invaluable to fieldwork.

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