THE USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS LEARNINGTHE USE OF MOBILE TECHNOLOGY FOR SUPPORTING STUDENTS LEARNING
MMS AS A FEEDBACK TOOLMMS AS A FEEDBACK TOOL
LET’S MXIT!LET’S MXIT!
Why Mobile Technology?
• Digital Natives (Prensky 2001)
Prensky (2001)
SMS/MMS
WHAT IS IT?• SMS
– Short Message Service– Text Only
• MMS– Multimedia Messaging Service– Video, Images, Sound
STUDENT LOGO• MMS Picture of design• Reply Via SMS with feedback
PROCESS• MMS received
from student
PROCESS• MMS text
“This is wat iv done. Hope u can c it. I must enlarg da name mre”
PROCESS• Picture of work
done
REPLY VIA• MMS• SMS• E-mail
E-MAIL TO SMS• Groupwise• Vodacom
• MTN– [email protected]
• Text in the Subject Field• Recipient can reply
SETTING UP• Vodacom
– *111#– Call 111 from Vodacom Cellphone
• MTN– *123*12#– Call 1555 from MTN Cellphone– Call 0831555 from other line
References• www.digitalnative.org/#home
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