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Going Mobile!
Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.
com
What’s in your bag?
8-18 year olds who own:
9%
37%
12%
53% Kaiser Foundation Report: Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds 3-9-05
Online teens
flickr.com/photos/subliminalpudding/5444473/
• 94% use the internet for school research
• 41% use email and IM to contact their teacher or classmates for help
• 58% use websites set up specifically for their school or class
• 87% of their parents believe the internet helps students with their schoolwork
The Internet and Education: Findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/39/report_display.asp
• Wireless internet capable (coming soon)– Opera
• Built in microphone• Touch screen• Plays video (with add
on)
• Wireless internet
• Play high quality video
• Read eBooks
• Listen to audio
• Read blogs
• Access to the internet
• Take photos
• Record video
• Display multimedia
• Send text / Images(varies by model)
• Wireless internet• Take photos• Display multimedia• Send / Receive
email(varies by model)
Thinking small
• CellFlix Festival• 30 second video• Filmed entirely on
mobile phone, edited on computer
• High school and college students
Video by Forrest Sansom and Bryan Oki
DiscoveryEducatorAbroad.com
South Africa
• MobilED pilot in Pretoria, South Africa
• HIV/AIDS Project• 15-16 year olds• Mobile access to
Wikipedia via SMS• Server reads content
aloud• Students create
audiocasts for community
Instant Protest
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/7723.php0
What can you do with the technology your students
already have?
unitedstreaming.com
Quiz CenterWriting PromptsImage LibraryArticles
Search
• AOL
• Technorati
Reference
• LookWayUp.com
• Answers.com
• LangToLang.com
• ConvertIt.com
DiscoverySchool.com
• Same maps as Google Maps and Google Earth
• Zoom in and out
• Scroll around map
Wapedia• Same info as
Wikipedia• Images scaled for
mobile viewing• Simple search
interface• Separate sites for
phones and larger mobile devices
Semacodes
Semapedia
Images from semapedia.org
Semacodes in the classroom?
• Mobile class website
• Homework assignments
• Bulletin Boards
• Science / Math Fair– Follow up information– Survey questions
• School history
Photo: flickr.com/photos/rosstsai/93413149/
QuizFaber
• FREE• Windows only• Publishable on
Internet– Also supports
mobile phones
• Supports variety of questions
• Feature rich• Easy to use
Photos to go
flickr.com/mob• FREE (up to 100
photos)• Email photos from
phone• Large user community• Numerous
enhancements / hacks• Strong RSS support
Keeping track of it allmobilicio.us• Mobile version of
del.icio.us• Great for keeping
mobile links organized• Can view all
bookmarks or just mobile
• Use in tandem with other sites (Mob5 or Winksite)
Podcasting
Moblogging
Mobile Homes
Winksite
Winksite.com• FREE• Large number of
options• Can be complicated• Supports blogs, polls,
message boards, calendar
• Strong RSS support
Mob5
Mob5.com
• FREE
• Simple interface
• Very few options
• Supports images, email and links to phone numbers
It’s making use of what they already have in their pockets.
It’s not about new technologies…
Resources
Mob5.com/teach42
Teach42.com/Going-Mobile
Teach42.com/mobile.wml
Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.c
om
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