Mobile Software
Moglue - Create interactive ebooks and release them as apps for iOS and Android devices with one-click publishing.
App Rubric - a rubric to evaluate the quality and effectiveness of an app in terms of how it may impact student achievement. Criteria include curriculum connection, authenticity, feedback, differentiation, user friendliness, and student motivation.
MicroBlogging / Social Networking
Twitter - Discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.
Edmodo - a secure social platform for teachers and students to micro–blog and share files, events, documents, assignments and grades. The app is formatted to emulate Twitter and is crafted with the classroom in mind. But unlike Twitter, this site blocks the general public from seeing the content, providing a safe haven for students and teachers.
HotSeat - enabling collaborative micro-discussion in and out of the classroom, from Purdue University
Google Book Search - read them on your mobile device.
Texting
Class Pager is a service that teachers can use to send group text messages to their students.
Remind 101 - Text messaging for Teachers
ClassParrot - is a service that enables teachers to send text messages to groups of students and parents.
Text message Google for quick results. Simply text message your search query to GOOGLE ("466453", or alternatively "46645" on most devices) and we'll text message back your results. Standard message rates may apply.
Cha - Cha - ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.
Send text messages from email - Many cellular carriers assign email addresses to cellular phone numbers and support SMS or text messaging by email.
RainedOut - know before you go.
TextMarks - mobilize your world
Phonevite - share your voice, community base voice broadcasting phone tree service
Wiffiti - publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.
Drop Box - Online backup, file sync, for mobile phones too.
Evernote - remember everything, mobile phone app.
WeTxt - service offering free group text messaging. Option for sending "reply all" messages. Messages can be sent from your mobile device or from your email account. A mobile calendar helps you keep track of items that you need to send out as text messages.
GoKnow -
ipadio - ipadio allows you to broadcast from any phone to the Internet live. Phone blog, collect audio data, record and update the world, or simply let your mates know what you're doing
GroupMe - Free group texting that makes life easy for you and your groups. It's your real-life network, in your pocket.
Study Boost: Study with IM or SMS - makes studying easy and convenient by delivering study content using instant messaging, text messaging, and more.
Remind101 - This free beta site is created for teachers and students to seamlessly create text and/or email reminders for assignments, projects, quizzes, tests, labs, class activities and homework. Google calendar has this capability too, but make not be so easy. Currently, only open to students at a few universities.
Study Boost is a service designed to help students study through the use of text messaging and instant messaging.
DialMyCalls - you can send your own voice messages from 2 to 20,000 phone numbers all within a few minutes.
Live Audience Polling
Wiffiti - publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges.You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web.
Math4Mobile - this is the place where the world of mathematics and your mobile phone meet.
Gauge your reaction - New studies show that drivers overestimate their ability to multitask behind the wheel. This game measures how your reaction time is affected by external distractions. Regardless of your results, experts say, you should not attempt to text when driving.