In late 2002 I noted a great deal of movement in the ed-tech space where people were avidly debating the onset of learning management systems. I was more interested (obsessed might be a better description) and I still am with where the onset of wearable technologies take us. By December 2004 I was an avid critic of the LMS and endorsing research into the social and ethical dimensions of mobile learning - mLearning.

Mobile phones were in use in the cars when we apprehended kids with FACS as far back as 1998. My Nokia brick phone soon after let me take calls in the field. I was the only person I know at the time spending 1/5th of my wages in phone calls. Testing the grid. Pinging data through to Glogger.mobi 

Then MMS packet moblogging with Joi Ito arrived. SMS was rampant by 2003 and the ringtone business was booming. Makes me smile when I think of how advanced we thought we were in creating and hacking into our handsets to have our own ringtones.

Skype was in play. I graduated from the brick phone to the flip phone. My kids loved the little Samsung Flip as it had great games on it. I traded my DJ Stanton Decks (what an idiot) in to get my hands on a 02 XDA PDA.

I gave birth to the Australian Mobile Learning Network (AMLN). We travelled and presented a paper in South Africa at the premier mobile learning conference - mLearn.

All the while I was testing out where SMS and MMS fitted in with the curriculum I was paid to deliver at the Swan City Youth Services (SCYS).