This document provides an overview of how student cell phones can be connected to classroom instruction. It discusses various projects and tools that teachers have used including recording podcasts on field trips, documenting lab activities by taking photos and posting them online, translating texts into "text speak", creating mobile novels, and more. Questions that commonly come up around the use of cell phones in schools are addressed. A range of free resources and platforms that can be used are also listed and described.

1. Connecting Student Cell Phones to Classroom Instruction: Part I Liz Kolb University of Michigan Madonna University elikeren@umich.edu http://cellphonesinlearning.com http://blogtalkradio.com/elikeren Twitter: Lkolb Presentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcell Liz’s Business Card Send a new Text Message to: 50500 In Message: Kolb Using http://contxts.com

2. BYOT (Bring your own technology) http://www.convergemag.com/edtech/School-Districts-Lay-Foundation-for-Mobile-Devices.html

3. 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.

4. 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?

5. Age and Income Factors in Smartphone Ownership

6. 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.

8. 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

9. Send a new text message To: Our WiffitiBOard How are you using cell phones in learning? http://wiffiti.com

11. CPSProject: Brainstorming Interview with Joe Wood

13. Film/picture on the Fly Projects http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

18. Translating Romeo and Juliet to “text speak”

19. Start in class with translating a few lines to a wiffiti board.

20. Voting on best “translations”

21. Move to Homework

23. 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

25. 7th grade teacher http://www.schooltube.com/video/d9152d458cd14a41934b/Podcast-with-dropio

26. Mobile Podcasting: Songs about elements in Periodic table Chemistry Periodic Table High School http://sarahdi.blogspot.com/

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio Broadcasts Advanced Spanish Don Quixote Discussion Each week different students in charge of discussion http://talkshoe.com

31. Private Recordings or Public Podcasting with Braincast http://braincast.viatalk.com

32. 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

33. 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!

34. 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

35. 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

36. 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

37. 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.

38. 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

39. Administrative Cross Posting Post announcements, updates, pictures, videos, and assignments on multiple places from one text message. http://pixelpipe.com

40. Photoblogging Project: iReporting Mobile Journalism High School Students Document Inauguration Tools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTube http://wainauguration.org/

41. 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

42. 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

43. PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to Cells Physical Education Teacher in Australia Used: http://Utterli.com Web link: http://mrobbo.com

44. PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment 9th Grade Geography students in Australia Used: http://Utterli.com Web link: http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

45. 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/

46. Participate in Democratic Process http://www.visiblevote.us Vote on issues See how your representatives are voting Communicate with your representatives

47. Connecting Student Cell Phones to Classroom Instruction: Part II Liz Kolb University of Michigan Madonna University elikeren@umich.edu http://cellphonesinlearning.com http://blogtalkradio.com/elikeren Twitter: Lkolb Presentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcell Liz’s Business Card Send a new Text Message to: 50500 In Message: Kolb Using http://contxts.com

48. Jumbli http://jumbli.tv

49. Mobile Business Card http://contxts.com

50. 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.

51. Phone Conference recoding http://freeconferencepro.com Record up to 250 people at one time on one call Host controls Private storage

52. Mobile Photo Tweeting http://dailybooth.com/ Send a new picture to: lkolb.8249@dailybooth.com

53. Podcasting and Cross-Posting to Blogs and Wikis with iPadio http://ipadio.com

54. 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

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

56. Location Mobile Blogging Project: North American Lighthouses http://flagr.com

57. Listen to Any Podcast or RSS Feed Via Phone http://podlinez.com/ Get a phone number for ANY Internet podcast

58. Call and Listen to MOMA’s latest galleries 1 (801) 349-3832

59. 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

60. Google Voice in Foreign Language http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

61. Listen to World Language Educator Peyton Jobe Cell Phones in Language Learning with Google Voice Click Here

62. Create Your Own Mobile Scavenger Hunt http://www.scvngr.com

63. QRcodes Bar codes for cell phones. Take a picture of a bar code and receive information on your phone. http://kaywa.com

64. Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteering http://kaywa.com

65. http://mrrobbo.wordpress.com/

66. 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

68. Live Video Streaming from Cells http://qik.com/ http://qik.com/video/2564183

69. Follow a teacher in his first year of using cell phones George Engel (HS Math Teacher) http://www.cellularlearning.org

70. 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)