Bear in mind that while I know the fundamentals of programming in general, working with Cocoa (and Cocoa Touch) and Objective-C is something I picked up basically a couple weeks before the semester started. I am essentially a novice. That said – behold, a working prototype of the mobile app on an iPad simulator:

Ugly? Yes. Missing just about everything (including body text)? Yes. But those entries you see there were pulled off the ds106.us RSS feed and will update in real time. So onwards and upwards. To an expanded DS106!