One of the enjoyable workshops at recent JISC/TechDis conference I attended recently was from Lillian Soon and Ron Mitchell from xlearn who linked mobile technologies to inclusively. They first showed text wall, a password-protected webpage that your learners can text to from their mobile phones (you give them a number and a code) and which can be shown to the class as part of a lesson. This is a paid-for tool but would be great (with the right audience!) for brainstorming, gathering questions and so on.
Next up was the tiny JTEK micro DV camera (see right) which costs about £50 and can be hung round your neck. I could immediately think of lots of uses for this for hands-free recording fieldwork, lab processes and so on.
They also demonstrated Ustream which allows free on-the-fly streaming of video and/or audio from a computer or internet-linked mobile device. Could be used for workshops and seminars but perhaps also off-site events such as field trips. If you are interested in audio-only podcasting, audioBoo enables quick uploading of interviews and commentaries captured on, for example, an iPhone.
Finally iPadio takes this even further; you can broadcast (‘phonecast’) from any phone to the Internet live. Here is a quick example I did just now. You phone a freephone number and key in a pin number you get when you register. It uploads almost instantaneously and it adds a (fairly accurate) transcript.