Cell Phones in School: Three Popular Projects

Liz KolbUniversity of Michigan

Liz’s Mobile Business Card

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Agenda

1. Picture on the Fly

2. Oral Quizzes/Podcasting

3. Mobile iReporting

Film & Picture on the Fly Projects

http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

What should be our Pic on the Fly topic?

http://polleverywhere.com

Step 1: Set up a Class Text Alert

http://txtblaster.com

Ask students to join the class text alert

Set up a Flickr Mobile Email Address

http://flickr.com

Text out the assignment via Class Text Alert

Short Assignment

Send out Flickr Mobile Email address so students’ can text in pics or videos from phones

Give time frame “send in a pic/vid of “ethnocentrism” to

dropkl2@flickr.com by 9am Fri”

Text Message Project: Text Homework Alerts

Jimbo Lamb

High School Math Teacher

Pennsylvania

Text for Homework

Uses: http://textmarks.com

http://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/

Interview with Jimbo Lamb

Summer Text Program

Norwich Free Academy (Connecticut)

Text of the week! Monday is vocabulary day Tuesday is science facts Wednesday is mathematics Thursday is history Friday covers a variety of

topics including general knowledge and cultural literacy

Each day is a theme

Parents and Students Opt in

Text Alert Project: Text-An-Expert

Andrew Douch

9th Grade High School Social Studies

“Who was the first man to walk on the moon”

Power of Networks in Digital World

http://web.mac.com/andrewdouch/Site/Home.html

Use a cell phone to write a private or collaborative novel, poem, chapter review, or short story to “publish” on a cell phone.

Mobile Novels

http://textnovel.com

9th Graders Text Messaging Romeo and Juliet

• 9th Grade English in Michigan

• Translating Romeo and Juliet to “text speak”

• Start in class with translating a few lines to a wiffiti board.

• Voting on best “translations”

• Move to Homework

• Create a whole text message novel of Romeo and Juliet

Project 2: Oral Language Exams

http://google.com/voice

Web 2.0 Voicemail

A cell phone that couples with a website in order to create MP3 files of voicemails, transcripts of voicemails, smart greeting for individual or groups of callers, and stores all calling information.

http://google.com/voice

(734) 408-4495

Google Voice in Foreign Language

http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

Listen to World Language Educator Peyton Jobe

Cell Phones in Language Learning with Google Voice

Click Here

Getting Started

Log in to http://google.com/voice

Register or log in with Google account Get your local area code phone number

Click on SETTINGS---GOOGLE VOICE SETTINGS

Click on Voicemail & Text

RECORD NOW…(record your oral quiz assignment)

You can add contacts and add them to a group….Click on CONTACTS

Mobile Podcasting Project: Connecting Algebra to Real World

High School Algebra

Used http://yodio.com

Web link:

http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6UbBgsTMN2aC

Interview with Jimbo Lamb

Project 3: Mobile Blogging with iReporting

iReportinghttp://wainauguration.org/

Tumblr ExampleSchool of Performing Arts

http://brindschool.tumblr.com/

Documenting Australian Environment

9th Grade Geography students in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

Mobile Blogging…Getting Started

Tumblr

http://www.tumblr.com/

Phone call, picture, text or video post directly to blog

Goodies

Log in to http://tumblr.com

Create an account

Click on GOODIES to get mobile email and phone number.

Register your phone

Call the Tumblr number

iReporting Resources

http://blogger.com Send pictures, text, and video directly to blog

http://flickr.com Send pictures and video to private or public media

storage site.

http://youtube.com

Send video to private or public media storage

Future Project: Qrcode Scavenger Hunts!

QRcodes

Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone.

http://kaywa.com

Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteering

http://kaywa.com

Qrcode Book Reviews

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

Qrcode 2nd grade trip to zoo

Getting Started…

Download a bar code reader to your cell phone. Andriod Market or iPhone Market (free readers) Log in to http://reader.kaywa.com/

Create the QRcodes http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/ http://www.i-nigma.com/CreateBarcodes.html http://www.beqrious.com/generator