This is a list of basic tools that potentially be used across platforms. The intention TOOL MATRIX FOR MOBILE here to help educators select tools that can be used in scenarios where students LEARNING or workshop participants are using a variety of devices. Keep an eye on this spreadsheet as I'll be adding to it as I identify other core tools.

- Lucy Gray

TYPE Web-Based Mac PC iPhone App iPad App Android App Windows Mobile Blackberry Other App General iWork suite (Pages, Keynote, Numbers) http://www.apple.com/iwork/ X X X Microsoft Office(Word, PowerPoint, Excel) http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ X X iLife suite (iMovie, iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, Garageband) http://www.apple.com/ilife/ X X X Google Docs (Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Files) http://drive.google.com X X Documents To Go (Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentation, PDF) http://www.dataviz.com/DTG_home.html Evernote http://evernote.com X X X X X X X X Audio Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ X X Garageband http://www.apple.com/ilife/ X X X Aviary http://www.aviary.com/ X

Video iMovie http://www.apple.com/ilife/ X X X Windows MovieMaker http://goo.gl/S6O2r X VoiceThread http://ed.voicethread.com/ X X X Animoto http://animoto.com/education X YouTube http://www.youtube.com/schools X X X X

Photos iPhoto http://www.apple.com/ilife/ X Photostory http://goo.gl/jXvXt X Voicethread http://ed.voicethread.com/ Picasa http://picasa.google.com/ X Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ X X X Aviary http://www.aviary.com/ X

Publishing/Word Processing Microsoft Word http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ X X Pages http://www.apple.com/iwork/ X X X Google Docs http://drive.google.com X X Think.com http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ X Voicethread http://ed.voicethread.com/ X X

Presentations Microsoft PowerPoint http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ X X Keynote http://www.apple.com/iwork/ X X X Prezi http://prezi.com/ X

Communication/Blogging Think.com http://www.thinkquest.org/en/ X Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/ X X X Edublogs http://edublogs.org/ X Posterous https://posterous.com/ X Moveable Type http://www.movabletype.org/ X Smilebox http://www.smilebox.com/ X 21Classes https://www.21classes.com/ X Gaggle https://www.gaggle.net/ X

Graphics Comic Life http://goo.gl/rXGqN X X X X X X X X Kid Pix http://www.mackiev.com/kidpix/index.html Sketchup http://sketchup.google.com/ X Art Rage http://www.artrage.com/ X X X X TuxPaint http://tuxpaint.org/ X X Aviary http://www.aviary.com/ X Twist http://www.tech4learning.com/twist X X

Spreadsheets/Data Excel http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ X X Numbers http://www.apple.com/iwork/ X X X Google Docs Spreadsheets (Forms) https://drive.google.com/ X X X InspireData http://www.inspiration.com/InspireData

Graphic Organizers ScribbleMaps http://scribblemaps.com/ X Bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/ X Mindmeister http://www.mindmeister.com/ X X X X X X X Inspiration http://www.inspiration.com/Inspiration X X Kidspiration http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration Webspiration http://www.mywebspiration.com/ X

Screencasting, Screen Capturing, Annotating Skitch http://skitch.com/ X Grab http://goo.gl/ah018 X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ X Preview Preview_(Mac_OS) Jing http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html X Aviary http://www.aviary.com/ X https://www.adobe.com/products/ X X Adobe Connect adobeconnect.html Screenr http://www.screenr.com/ X Evernote http://evernote.com/

Chat Skype (text, audio, video) http://www.skype.com/ X X X X X X iChat AV (text, audio, video) http://www.apple.com/osx/what-is/ X FaceTime http://www.apple.com/mac/facetime/ Programming/Multimedia Microworlds http://www.microworlds.com/ X X Scratch http://scratch.mit.edu/ X X http://www.mackiev.com/hyperstudio/ X X Hyperstudio index.html Kerpoof Studio http://www.kerpoof.com/ X Pixie http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie X X

Planetariums Celestia X Stellarium http://www.stellarium.org/ X

Storage and File Transfer Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/ X X X X X X Box.net https://www.box.com/ X X X X X X X eReaders Kindle http://goo.gl/rCHn5 X X X X X Nook http://goo.gl/xq8UA X X X X X X eBook Publishing Tools ePubBud http://epubbud.com/readers.php X X X X X X iBooks Author http://www.apple.com/ibooks-author/ X (creates files to be consumed on iPad) Creative Book Builder http://goo.gl/wj9vK X X

Social Networks Ning http://goo.gl/qHRL1 X X X Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/ X X X