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Cell Phones in School: Three Popular Projects
Liz KolbUniversity of Michigan
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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
Step 1: Set up a Class Text Alert
http://txtblaster.com
Ask students to join the class text alert
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
[email protected] 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
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
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
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