If you have a documentary or a movie you made on history that you can distribute on mobile devices, you can deliver it to your learners in advance of a field trip. During the last couple of months colleagues of mine (and family) have been asking to give them an easy way to rip and convert DVD movies to a format that works on their mobile device. Knowing what type of screen you have will allow the best possible format for your movies. After the conversion is done, you can use the AVS4you converter 'edit' button to cut or paste to sections you want. Step 2. MORE >>

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post (see here ) on how to convert a DVD you have bought to a format that can be played on a mobile device. If you want to, you can use AVS4YOU to add the appropriate subtitles to your converted format. You follow the steps as indicated in the prior post, up until the moment you make yourself ready to click the convert button. Before you push the convert button, we are going to add the subtitles. Some of you have tried it already, but there was a question concerning subtitles. In order to do this, you push the ‘advanced button’. MORE >>

The movie and the 3D animations were made by Luis Fucay and David Iglesias from the Humboldt institute. These 3D-animations were made in iClone and afterwards converted to the needs and specifications of the mobile devices. My personal favorite converter is the AVS video converter. To get an idea of 3D-animation results, you can look at the movie underneath, or download the m4v-file or the windows mobile movie. The movie is in Spanish. Since the beginning of last year a Tibotec mobile project has been running. MORE >>

However, it will download the video in FLV format, and that format does not work well with PowerPoint, so you would have to convert the downloaded video into a more appropriate format. To convert the downloaded videos (in FLV format), I use Format Factory (to convert the videos to AVI or WMV formats). Format Factory (multifunctional media converter) is simply an amazing free video converter. If you like video converting the difficult way, perhaps you should convert online using Zamzar.com or MediaConverter.org. Ops, let's get back on track. MORE >>

We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions , but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets. One of the best tools, if you are already using Articulate, to convert your existing (Articulate based) courses to run on iPads, other tablets and mobile devices. It’s free! MORE >>