As you know, Monday’s WWDC keynote revealed a number of interesting new applications for the iPhone that will be available through Apple’s new App Store. The store will offer applications in a variety of categories—games, business, education, entertainment, finance, health and fitness, productivity, social networking, etc.—that will utilize iPhone technology like the Multi-Touch interface, the accelerometer, GPS, real-time 3D graphics and 3D positional audio.

Among the vanguard of iPhone apps are a number of potentially useful applications for mobile learning:

• First, an advanced to-do list application called Zenbe Lists, which allows you to keep track of chores and calendar lists. In addition to making lists, the application enables you to check off accomplished tasks and sync events with your contacts. Sounds great for keeping track of assignments, appointments, etc.
• Two new medical applications were demonstrated during the keynote. The first, Modality, is an anatomy application for students, which is linked to Wikipedia and Google to provide a multitude of sources. The second, MIMvista, allows doctors to view and manipulate PET and CT scan images from their iPhones.
• Kooaba might be one of the most interesting new apps because it uses the relatively new concept of an image driven search. With image recognition, the application allows you to point the iPhone’s camera at a movie poster and receive information and show times on the movie. While this might not be incredibly relevant for teaching and learning presently, the concept of image recognition offers a host of potential educational uses.
• As we’ve previously reported, TypePad has developed a new blogging client, which will work on the fly and will allow geo tagging of images. Images can be uploaded right from the camera on the iPhone. Also, it will support photo blogging, which is a huge plus for many.
• The AP showed off their mobile news network. This application will cache news for you so you can read it on the go. Because it caches the news, you won’t need a network connection to stay up-to-date on all the latest news.
• Finally, a social networking application called Loopt uses location feeds to help you find friends on the go. With Loopt iPhone users will be able to pinch, tap and drag an interactive map to find their friends and see what they’re are up to. This might be a handy way to meet up with classmates, colleagues and teachers.