Posted reflections on Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools

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Ann Oro I can use a cell phone as a teacher to record podcasts from my phone. I can create cell phone ready web pages. I can have students create and save cell phone wall paper. I can have the students create and save cell phone ring tones.
 2007-11-05 21:04:43 View
Janetta Garton WHY USE CELL PHONES IN THE CLASSROOM? • Bring student culture into classroom, most use cell phones daily • Connect student everyday digital culture with classroom learning • Include digital literacies: Taking a social toy learning to use as tool for the rest of their lives • Teach digital etiquette WHAT CAN THEY DO? • Audio, camera, video, research • Data collection: audio, images, video • Collaboration: ring tones, wall paper texting • Research and organizational: web, calendar, calculator AUDIO Cell Podcasting • Phones are an easy podcasting solution You can post files on private spaces on the web, mobile notes, voice mail, podcasting o Gabcast, 13 years old required, My Channel, Create a new channel, it is saved, can choose of publish; refresh screen to see newly published episodes; provide code for embedding as well. Podcast can automatically post to your blog if you use that feature o Gcast o Hipcast (not free) o Evoca • Free account/channel with RSS feed, • phone # toll free with Gabcast/Gcast; • mp3 file stored online or you can publish to blog or web site, • Phones don’t have to be brought into class to do some of these projects; can do them outside of class, ie interviews could be homework at home, just use a cell phone or land line at home; • Chaperones’ cell phones can be used on field trips (for younger students who don’t have a cell phone) Phone Conferencing • FreeConferencePro: not a toll free number ; hear music until next caller comes online; can record as mp3; can download file; • Talkshoe Private Voice Mail • Private Phone and Jangle create private toll free local numbers to save voice mail; • Share with students without giving our actual cell phone number; • Use local area code students can use land line to call. • Immediately goes to voice mail. • Number and pin to dial in and listen to messages. Listen to voice mails online • Respond by email or phone Mobile note taking • audio recording sent you or someone else • www.jott.com: set up account, set up contact list (anyone you would want to send an audio message to) Jott shows up in email as audio message; if you don’t send immediately, can shoose transcript feature to send as text and audio • Braincast.viatralk.com • Mindjot.com Examples of Classroom Use • 6th grade author study • Radio theater: students develop scripts • Poetry slam • Man on the street science cast Project ideas for Cell Podcasting • Conduct Interviews: authors, war veterans, community leaders • Collect sound clips from field trips • Create Radio Broadcasts, make own sound effects, building announcements • Create Books on Tape, esl, younger students (copyright concerns use public domains) • Create a Poetry Slam: original work or published (again copyright concerns) • Speech Presentation Skills • Virtual Conferencing (virtual debates with other classrooms using talk shoe, constitutional convention with role playing, experts brought in) • Assessment-record essay questions and verbalize understanding; Private Phone: assessment, oral language quiz, posted in teacher’s private phone account, grade and assess DIGITAL CAMERAS AND CAMCORDERS Photoblogs • Blogger has features to set up automatic photoblog using http://go.blogger.com take a picture with phone, send go@blogger.com, send you a URL address and claim code; keep taking pics and they will immediately go to the that blog. Login at go.blogger.com, put in claim code and can add text, posts, etc. • Flickr also offers the option of uploading photos via email Slideshows • Bubbleshare: post pictures from phone to bubbleshare; My mobile album: email address supplied to send images to from cell phone to have uploaded to bubbleshare. This email address enables you to send photos from different phones. Students could all take pictures and send to the same account. Also provides embedding options Video Camcorders are expensive and don’t want to loan out to students; but students can use their own phones; convenient; short videos, not a lot of clunky equipment to carry around; more time because doesn’t all have to be done in class, with online tools for uploading and editing and publishing • Eyespot.com: can post from cell phone to private account and edit; create account, set mobile settings to immediately publish from cell phone or even a blog through eyespot. Send to eyespot, then open in editor, trim, cut, add music, audio, add other clips; storage limit? Mix and play to render compressed movie; go from public to private, publish, email, etc • Jumpcut.com: can post from cell phone to private account and edit • Youtube.com: can post from cell phone Project Ideas for Cell Phone Cameras/Camcorders • Data Collection: rock examples, blog about what type it is • Create a Documentary: images to accompany interviews • Digital Storybooks: Bubbleshare • Digital Image Stories: Flickr, add tags and descriptions, storybook, description for each page, print and laminate • Clay Animation: demonstrate phenomena, ideas, settings in novels, send photos to eyespot to create movie • News Broadcast • Enhanced Podcasting: audio file, adding images; use Bubbleshare to add audio • Public Service Announcement: 30 sec-1 minute commercials; CREATING CLASSROOM PROJECT FOR YOUR CELL PHONE Ringtones • Create ring tones phonezoo.com jingles or wraps about math, ss (use curriculum) • Create ring tone using audacity, export as wave file, go to phonezoo, create account, free, create a ring tone, browse to upload wave file (aif, wave, mp3) play, listen, public, private, title. Send to phone, phone settings entered when account set up; save in cell phone and becomes a choice as a ring tone. Wallpaper • www.pixDrop.com • pix2fone.com: no account needed; send now and browse and choose picture; select model of phone, upload your picture, adjust; OK button; information on how to send right to cell phone (send to phone or access via email.) Text Messages Sites to send text messages, send free text messages to any cell phone, reminders, review content • www.textforfree.com (free) • txtdrop.com • www.reactee.com ($) create a tshirt, keyword for text messaging, anyone can text to the keyword about topic; choose a topic or create a “slogan” election, global warming; Surveys and Polls • create a survey that is accessible on cell phones • www.mobiode.com: create account, create a new survey, domain name: what you use to login to take survey from phone; give you the domain name, enter questions, make it active or publish; launch survey; .movie address on cell phone and participate in survey; • can take online as well • statistics will show you results, export to excel Project Ideas for Ringtones/Logos/Text Messaging/Surveys • Poetry Slams (ring tone) • Unit Reviews: Flash Cards (text messaging, concept definitions, quiz questions, polls and surveys use to review as well) • Jingles and Raps (used as ring tones, about content) • Field Trips, Class Events documentation (ring tone song about trip, drawings/art uploaded and used as wallpaper) • 1940-50 Serials: radio and movie serial; short weekly broadcast; done as ring tone; subscribe through phone zone and get updates • Mobile Campaigns: develop a produce and marketing campaign, free text, T-shirts, ringtones, surveys, • Mobile Art Galleries: pictophone, subscribe, get new art work • Current Events text students in charge of current events topic and as updates come out, text message that out to subscribers • Student Activism Projects • School Events and School News: react, community members buy tshirts and team sends out updates about school events CELL PHONE AS A RESEARCH TOOL The Mobile Web: does cost to access the Internet, not all web pages accessible by phones. .mobi means it is mobile ready • Ready.mobi: website that allows you to submit URL and see if accessible on mobile phone • Flickr has mobile ready site • Wikipedia • Yahoo + its email • Plusmo.com: put together RSS, blogs, and can view on phone • www.google.com for mobile; text a search query to a code and Google will text you back with answer • Text a librarian: www.selu.edu/library/askref/index.html Southeastern Louisiana university librarian will text back with answer • Mobilequery.com: spell check, dictionary, thesaurus (free software) Create you own Mobile Website with .mobi address • Homeworknow.com $ subscribe, immediate alerts, assignments • Zinadoo.com favorites, create mobile friendly websites, students create a website, template based, friendly, free; register, choose background/template, used editor to add links, images, RSS feeds, text, preview on cell phone, get my website URL get a .mobi URL that others can use to access your site. • Winksite.com • Mob5.com CALENDAR, VOICE RECORDING, NOTE PADS, ALERTS Digital Assignment Notebook • Hall passes • Calendar • Alarms/alerts for meetings and assignments • Notes back and forth to parents • Calculators, not a graphing calculator FUTURE OF CELL PHONES IN LEARNING New features for cell phones include: • math4mobile software for secondary students, geometry, statistics, 1. PBS w/Sprint software for preschools to learn ABC/123s 2. Starter phone: TickTalk for young students; parent controls; who they can call, times 3. Live streaming of video, AT&T has; watch TV, movies 4. GPS: access, driver’s ed, geography, speed alerts 5. Nokia: antennas for more access to radio 6. Projects: LCD projectors 7. Assistive tech: zoom, talk only to dial no buttons 8. Ebay auctions and bidding via cell phone 9. Scan/copy/faxing devices 10. Jump drives: store files 11. Solar powered cell phones
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Wesley Fryer
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