The mediaBoard is an activity tool developed to facilitate collaborative approaches to mobile learning. Multimedia messaging (MMS) is used to add visual and audio material to a web-based multimedia map or picture. Collaborating organisations have been experimenting with the mediaBoard and inventing a variety of activities that it can support. Some mentors have been very enthusiastic about the mediaBoard’s potential and groups of learners have enjoyed trying it. Learners can also take part in mediaBoard activities using their own basic phones and separate cameras, with the pictures being transferred to the website later from a PC. In practice, development of the mediaBoard was more difficult and time consuming than originally anticipated, particularly because of significant differences in MMS handling between service providers.