Foursquare uses geolocation to locate you on your smart phone so you can check into locations. It's all the rage in marketing, and I'd say there may be some niffty ways to try to use it for education.
When you encourage your students to go outside of the box of the usual projects..they can amaze you.. this is one my student groups from Psychology of Consumer Behaviour
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