Connecting Student Cell Phones to

Classroom Instruction: Part I

Liz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna Universityelikeren@umich.edu

http://cellphonesinlearning.comhttp://blogtalkradio.com/elikeren

Twitter: Lkolb

Presentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcell

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Using http://contxts.com

BYOT (Bring your own

technology)http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/School-Districts-Lay-Foundation-for-Mobile-Devices.html

Cell Phones in Learning Internet Radio

http://blogtalkradio.com/elikeren

• Interviews with teachers, administrators, and educational organizations that use student cell phones in K-12 for learning.

Why Cell Phones?• Accessibility

• 72% of U.S. population have Internet access at home

• 55% have broadband

• 87% of U.S. population own cell phones

• Low Cost

• End of 2012 education technology spending will reach 56.2 billion dollars.

• How Students’ View Cell Phones

• 3 Generations of Cell Phone Users (NPR)

• How Students View Learning

• Free Agent Learners

• Anywhere, anytime, any place at any pace

• 1-800-2chacha OR Text CHACHA

• The 21st Century Professional World

• Future jobs require mobile skill

• % of U.S. Adults believe that schools are preparing students for 21st Century workforce?

Age and Income Factors in Smartphone Ownership

Own a Smartphone0%

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% of Adults 18-45% of Adults 45+Income >50,000Income <50,000

How Students Can Document Learning on a BASIC cell phone

• SMS Texting• Group Brainstorming, alerts, polls, surveys,

quizzes,

• MMS Texting• Send pictures/videos to instructor & other

students

• Phone Call• Record interviews, observations, brainstorms,

quizzes…etc.

Questions…

• Do ALL students need their own phone?• NO! Groups, Web Options, Landlines

• What if my school does not allow cell phones on campus?• Activities work very well off-campus for homework

• Can I use a BASIC phone?• YES! Phone call, text message, take a picture…

• Does it costs money?• The resources are FREE, students should know their plans

• Students with disabilities?• Speech to Text & Text to Speech Options

Send a new text message To: Our Wiffiti BOard

How are you using cell phones in learning?

http://wiffiti.com

CPSProject: Brainstorming

Interview with Joe Wood

Film/picture on the Fly Projects

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

Film/Pic on the Fly at MACUL

http://textmarks.com

• Join our alert group! AND get the email address to text pictures and videos to

• Liz will text out “concept” at 3:30pm today!

• Winner gets a free copy of Liz’s Book

• Posts will immediately show up on Liz’s Blog at

http://cellphonesinlearning.com

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

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

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

Mobile Podcasting/Dropcasting

Using a cell phone to record and then posting the recording to a public or private website that has an RSS feed and can be downloaded as an MP3 file.

Mobile Podcasting Project: Field Trips

High School Chemistry Students on a field trip at Cranbrook Science Museum in MI.

Cell Phones pictures documented chemical elements.

Used: Camera on cell phone and sent to drop.io at http://drop.io/CKCHEM4

7th grade teacher

• http://www.schooltube.com/video/d9152d458cd14a41934b/Podcast-with-dropio

Mobile Podcasting: Songs about elements in Periodic table

Chemistry

Periodic Table

• High School

• http://sarahdi.blogspot.com/

Mobile Podcasting Project: Author Study

Middle School 6th-7th Grade

Used: http://gabcast.com

Web link:

http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

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

Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts

High School Students Community Live Radio Show in Maine

Used http://blogtalkradio.com

Web link:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lobstertalk

Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts

• Advanced Spanish

• Don Quixote Discussion

• Each week different students in charge of discussion

http://talkshoe.com

Private Recordings or Public Podcasting with Braincast

• http://braincast.viatalk.com

Mobile Surveys and Quizzes

http://mobiode.com/

• Create surveys and quizzes online and send to phones via text message (cost) or mobile Internet

• Take Liz’s Survey

http://techtools.mobiode.mobi

Mobile Note taking and Organization

Using your cell phone to create speech to text reminders, emails, twitters, scheduled items on web-based calendars, get translations, and more!

Mobile Note taking and Organization

• http://dial2do.com Create an account

• Send Emails

• Transcription

• Translation

• Post to your Google Calendar, get SMS reminders of your events.

• Create reminders

• Listen to any website or news feed

Mobile Novel Project: Cell Phone Bestseller

Popular in Asia to Read Novels Via Cell.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/world/asia/20japan.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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

Mobile Photo and Video blogging or Posting

Posting an image, video, or text message to a web blog or private photo place on the web directly from your cell phone.

Most Blogs, social networks have direct Mobile posting

• http://blogger.com• Under Settings Mobile

• http://twitter.com • Under Settings

• http://flickr.com• Uploading Tools---Email

• http://facebook.com • Under Mobile at bottom of page

Administrative Cross Posting

Post announcements, updates, pictures, videos, and assignments on multiple places from one text message.

• http://pixelpipe.com

Photoblogging Project: iReporting

Mobile Journalism

High School Students Document Inauguration

Tools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube

http://wainauguration.org/

PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Lab Activities

Mathematics teacher has students document their mathematical steps and lab activities, then put them into a slideshow along with process explanation.

Web link: http://mathematicslearning.blogspot.com/2008/04/mobile-has-changed-my-way.html

PhotoPosting Project: Cell Phones & Facebook to

Document Everyday Culture

Psychology teacher in Michigan has students document everyday cultural experiences with cell phone and sends them to class Facebook account.

Web link:

Protected in Facebook

Interview with Larry Liu

PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to Cells

Physical Education Teacher in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://mrobbo.com

PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment

9th Grade Geography students in Australia

Used:

http://Utterli.com

Web link:

http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

Mobile Video Posting

Wyoming High School Social Studies Teacher

• Flip-book animations

• Camera Phone and MovieMaker

Examples

• http://www.zshare.net/video/7346981531bfed75/

• http://www.zshare.net/video/73469957b6fa6692/

Participate in Democratic Process

• http://www.visiblevote.us

• Vote on issues

• See how your representatives are voting

• Communicate with your representatives

Connecting Student Cell Phones to

Classroom Instruction: Part II

Liz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna Universityelikeren@umich.edu

http://cellphonesinlearning.comhttp://blogtalkradio.com/elikeren

Twitter: Lkolb

Presentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcell

Liz’s Business CardSend a new Text Message to:50500

In Message:Kolb

Using http://contxts.com

Jumbli

http://jumbli.tv

Mobile Business Card• http://contxts.com

How to Use Mobile Business Card in K-12?

• Flash Card ReviewsEach student in a class can create a "business card" as a 160 character flash card, give it a keyword. As a result, all the students in the class could exchange different flash cards for review. If the cards are saved on the students' phones, than the students can use them anytime for an instant review.

• Help LinesStudents who are struggling with issues of depression, addiction, disease, anxieties, peer pressure, or other afflictions are often fearful to tell an adult. By giving students mobile business cards with help line information, they can contact the lines at anytime without fear of being identified.

• Local Scavenger HuntsTeachers can create keyword scavenger hunts using Contxts. For example, a teacher can create "clues" by using the 160 character business cards, and as students answer the clues and find the new locations for the scavenger hunt, they text a new keyword and receive a new clue. This would be a fun activity for local history, math students studying geometry, physics students, or even foreign language students could go around the city or just the school unraveling clues in other languages.

• Advertising CampaignsStudents could team up with local businesses to create 160 character advertisements. For example students could create an ad slogan for a local coffee shop, along with a coupon...such as"Drink a cup of Joe before 8 & Get a rebate...COUPON CODE: 721u". Students could create posters or a word of mouth campaign to try to get people to call in to hear the advertisement and the coupon code.

Phone Conference recoding

• http://freeconferencepro.com

• Record up to 250 people at one time on one call

• Host controls

• Private storage

Mobile Photo Tweeting

http://dailybooth.com/

Send a new picture to:

• lkolb.8249@dailybooth.com

Podcasting and Cross-Posting to Blogs and Wikis with iPadio

• http://ipadio.com

iPadio in World Languages

“This past week one of the teachers in our World Language Department used student cell phones and ipadio to record pairs of students having a conversation about a famous Mexican painting. Prior to the activity the teacher paired the students off and had them write a dialog in Spanish talking about the Mexican painting. On the day of the activity the students paired off around the room and using one cell phone dialed into ipadio, entered the 4-digit access code, and began talking. When they were finished they just hung up the phone. Each of the recordings were saved in the teachers private ipadio account. Later that day the teacher listened to the conversations and assessed each student's performance.”

http://www.livinginthe4thscreen.com/using-student-cell-phones-and-ipadio-to-recor

Location Mobile Blogging

Posting an image, audio file, or text message to a specific location on a map directly from your cell phone.

Location Mobile Blogging Project: North American Lighthouses

http://flagr.com

Listen to Any Podcast or RSS Feed Via Phone

http://podlinez.com/Get a phone number for

ANY Internet podcast

Call and Listen to MOMA’s latest galleries

1 (801) 349-3832

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

Create Your Own Mobile Scavenger Hunt

• http://www.scvngr.com

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

http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

Avatar Project: Spanish Oral Exams

High School Spanish 2 & 3 Students

Developed an Avatar to take oral exams

Used http://voki.com

Focus: Engagement in oral speaking, oral speaking exams, culture representation with images

Interview with Katie Titler

Live Video Streaming from Cells

• http://qik.com/

http://qik.com/video/2564183

Follow a teacher in his first year of using cell phones

George Engel (HS Math Teacher)

• http://www.cellularlearning.org

Getting Started

• DO NOT attempt to change policy (yet)

• Survey Students on Cell Phones• Who has one? What is their plan? Preference for Communication?

• Talk with students about cell phone safety & etiquette• Create a social contract for cell phone use with school

assignments• Show Digital Dossier Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLA

• Start with OPTIONAL homework/EC projects outside of classroom.

• Start with what YOU are comfortable with (such as phone call resources like Drop.io)