Cell Phones for Learning / iPhones in the Classroom
iPhones in the classroom? Are you kidding? No I'm not! Cell phones are often banned in the classroom or banned entirely from schools. Most cell phones today have more computing power than those available to NASA during the Apollo space program, however. In this session we'll explore ways cell phones, including the iPhone but not JUST the iPhone, can be used to help learners access web-based content, remix it, share it, collaborate with others, and create media-rich deliverables for the classroom teacher as well as a global audience. A specific focus on using cell phones as mobile recorders for digital storytelling projects, like the Library of Congress' Veteran Oral History Project, will also be included.
Cell Phone Web 2.0 Tools by Function
Data Access
- Google SMS (search)
- Mobilicious (del.icio.us social bookmarks on a mobile device)
- Delicious Mona (news aggregator)
- iTunes U and Mobile Learning (iPhone and iTouch)
Mobile Recording
- Gabcast
- Gcast - Example: The Story of Richard Ivie
- VoiceThread (digital storytelling) - Example: Reflections on the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - NCCE 2008 VoiceThread
- Jott (audio to text conversion)
Surveys / Polls
- Poll Everywhere (Simple Text Message Voting and Polling, PowerPoint Polling - Example)
- Mobiode (Mobile Surveys)
Mobile Photosharing
Homework and Alerts
- Ravewireless
- HomeworkNOW.com (Homework and Assignment Alerts)
Social Networking
- MySpace Mobile
- Twitter (back channel discussions = Wesley on Twitter)
Videos
- Connected: The Movie (Abilene Christian University's iPhone Project)
- Mobile Phones, Mobile Minds - Teachers TV (26 min, includes student perspectives)
- Pay Attention
- Rave Wireless video for students and parents
- Iqbal Quadir: The power of the mobile phone to end poverty (TED Talk)
- Angry Professor
Classroom Examples:
- Documenting learning and brainstorming with digital photos
- IC Student Wins Cellflix Contest (Ithaca College, New York - 2006)
Other Resources:
- From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Schools (blog of Liz Kolb)
- Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools (Liz Kolb's outstanding presentation for K12Online07)
- Karen Montgomery's Cell Phones for Learning wiki curriculum
- Mobile Devices in Education - Website from Duke Univ with instructional applications and links
- Mobile Phones 2 Learn - A wink site community started by Karen Montgomery
- Mobile - Cell Phones in Education - Jan 2006 article by Graeme Daniel
- My cell phone for learning related social bookmarks
This session has been previously shared during:
- COSN Conference in Washington D.C. - 10 March 2008
- NCCE Conference in Seattle, Washington - 27 Feb 2008
- Yukon, Oklahoma Schools district-wide technology integration PD day - 18 Feb 2008
- STARtech Conference in Salina, Kansas - 21 Jan 2008
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More websites by Wesley!
Visit my blog, "Moving at the Speed of Creativity," at www.speedofcreativity.org. All my public Google Notebooks are available. A fairly comprehensive list of websites I maintain and to which I contribute is on claimid.com/wfryer.
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