Bring Your Own Cell Phone: Collaborative activities for the classroom Lin Muilenburg, Ph.D. St....

Bring Your Own Cell Phone: Collaborative activities for the

classroom

Lin Muilenburg, Ph.D.St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Cell Phones + One Computer

With one classroom computer to share results, there are endless collaborative activities you can develop using:

Texting… using short message service

(SMS) is a great way to engage learners!

Cell Phones for Research

Half of the room try…

Googl SMS = text to 46645. Get a text reply to proper search queries:

Weather 02045 (4 seconds)Web mitosis (6 seconds)

ChaCha = text to 242242. Text a question. Get a text reply. Voice your question to 1-800-2-chacha and get a text reply!

Cell Phones as SRS (“clickers”)

POLL #1 1/3 of the room

Start a text message

Answer this poll

Note: Poll Everywhere free account allows 30 responses per poll, but unlimited # of polls.

Take out your cell phone…

POLL #2 – 1/3 the roomSMS to this number: 221541Type code then answer question: 37607

Name one advantage of using cell phones for education in the K12 classroom.

POLL #3 – 1/3 the roomSMS to this number: 221546Type code then answer question: 37607

Name one disadvantage of using cell phones for education in the K12 classroom.

Group Mail & Chats… send a mass message to a group

And/or conduct synchronous discussions

Tools for Group Mail and Chats

Send GM -- Subscribers choose to receive SMS, email, or voice recording. Have to sign up. Only "senders" can send messages. 30 people on free account.

Today's meet — http://today.io/2055   Online chat room. Unfortunately Twitter feed for participation by mobile is glitchy.

Tools for Group Mail and Chats

Celly (23559) — http://cel.ly/c/mLearningTo register by cell phone text @mLearning to 23559. Post at website or by SMS to 23559 (or simply reply to a Celly SMS).

Posterous — post by web or pre-registered email: http://mobilelearn.posterous.com or mobilelearn@posterous.com Note that SMS works if you register mobile number as an email address: 4104744323@sms.att.net

Send Email to a Mobile Number

AT&T: number@txt.att.net

Qwest: number@qwestmp.com

T-Mobile: number@tmomail.net

Verizon: number@vtext.com

Sprint: number@pm.sprint.com

Virgin Mobile: number@vmobl.com

U.S. Cellular: number@email.uscc.net

Nextel: number@messaging.nextel.com

Alltel: number@message.alltel.com

Metro PCS: number@mymetropcs.com

Powertel: number@ptel.com

Suncom: number@tms.suncom.com

You can send an SMS to an email address.

PIX… sending pictures via

multimedia message service (MMS)

PIX! Take out your cell phones

Choose a photo you already have or take a picture of a neighbor (with permission).

Send photo via MMS or email to: lymuilenburg.mlearning@blogger.com

Text a short caption in the subject line such as “my dog Fluffy” or “Mary texting”

SEND your PIX

See the results at:

http://mlearningmorethantalk.blogspot.com/

Phone Conferencing… record conferences for later analysis;

post audio files to your blog or website

Cell Phone Conferencing

Use a conference hosting website such as www.AlwaysFreeConferencing.com or www.FreeConferencePro.com

Set up an account in advance

Provide users with the phone number, written directions, and time to call in

Provide specific discussion guidelines

Run a practice session to get the sillies out

Cell Phone Conferencing

If you plan to use your recordings in class, be sure to allow time for the files to become available on the website

Sample Discussion Question: “Are you for or against the use of cell phones for education in the K12 classroom and WHY?”

www.AlwaysFreeConferencing.com

When you set up your account they email these directions

FLIX… sending videos via

multimedia message service (MMS)

Take out your cell phonesShoot a 2 second video of a neighbor saying:

“My name is ______ and I’m from _____.”

Send the video via MMS or email to:moral45should@photos.flickr.com We can see the uploaded videos at my Flickr account

Note: Video editing/mixing can be done online with free Web 2.0 tools.

Phonecasts and Phlogs… stream live to the web or make recordings from your

cell phone and post to your blog

Using iPadio to record

Set up an account at www.ipadio.com

Call the ipadio phone number 1-866-488-3946

Enter your pin when prompted then speak

You are streaming live to the internet

You can play the recording from the website, download the MP3, or embed it in your blog

Geotag your recordings on Google Maps

See the results at:

http://mlearningmorethantalk.blogspot.com/2010/02/phlogging-with-ipadio.html

QR Codes… a 2-dimensional barcode

(mostly) for Smart Phones

Create your own QR Code

Using the QR Code generator such as RedLaser or Kaywa you can create your own QR codes http://www.redlaser.com

http://qrcode.kaywa.com

Differentiate with colored QR Codes usinghttp://www.qrstuff.com

QR Codes can containthese (and more):-URL -Event (Vcalendar)

-telephone number -Social Media

-Contact info (Vcard) -Email message

-SMS message -Google Maps location

Final check on our PIX and FLIX uploads

Call for Chapters:The Handbook of Mobile

LearningZane Berge & Lin Muilenburg, Editors

Questions?