Showing posts with label cellphone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cellphone. Show all posts
Last November I came across a post from the Vagabondish blog about clever uses for your digital camera while traveling. Now that there is so much excitement surrounding use of cell phones for education, I want to bring back that "old post" and dress it up some. The post was created by Mike Richard on November 8, 2007 and is called:

"Travel Tips: 12 Clever Uses for Your Digital Camera "

It is definitely worth the read if you have any interest in using cell phones in class or just like finding interesting ideas for products you already own. There are suggestions from blog responses such as taking a photo of where you park your car at an airport (remember Seinfeld and friends lost in the parking garage for the whole episode?), pic of hotel in a foreign city, photo of your kids as you enter an amusement park to show what they are wearing, pic of your group of kids you are leader of on a field trip, pic of a bus route sign or signs as bread crumbs as to where you are going, more and more ideas. You can subscribe so when a new idea is posted, since there are many more than 12 ideas now, you will receive it!


Liz wiki: http://cellphonesinlearning.wikispaces.com/
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/

polleverywhere.com - can see live results as people vote
76% of teens have cell phones PBS how Three generations of cell phone users.
chacha.com - can call to ask a question and they will text back the answer.

How students like to learn?
Collaboratiely
Anytime, anyplace, anywhere any pace
Structured activities
Relevancy with real world

only 23% of students think we are preparing them for their future learning
Mobile blog - an online journal that is created and can be viewed via mobile phone - people have become the news reporters beause they have photo capability, blog capability etc.
go@blogger.com -see directions on blogger moble

Podcast & interviews:
gabcast.com - 1800-749-0632 Channel # 21059 PW: 6322 NECC

Flickr gives you free mobile account - can have students upload to class blog. There are dircetions on the fickr page.This will allow many phones to send images to the blog. Some mobile blogs only accept from one phone number. Be sur to tell your kids to know their text/photo plan BEFORE you begin this project. I would recommend that you create a permission form for parents to sign for 8th and younger.

Videoblogging:
blip.tv has automatic cross posting to blog
Speech to text: jott.com - allows you to speak into jott, they change it to text and post for you, or send you the message in text and voice to your email.