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

– Number@voda.co.za

• MTN– Number@sms.co.za

• 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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