This document outlines three popular classroom projects that utilize cell phones: picture and video projects, oral language exams, and mobile blogging. The first project involves having students use their phones to take pictures or videos on assigned topics and submit them via text or email. The second uses voice over IP services like Google Voice for students to record and submit oral exam responses. The third project type discusses using mobile blogging platforms like Tumblr to allow students to directly post content from their phones. Examples and resources are provided for implementing each of these three mobile learning projects.

1. Cell Phones in School:
Three Popular Projects
Liz Kolb
University of Michigan
Liz’s Mobile Business Card
Send a newText Message:
50500
In Message type:
Kolb

2. Agenda
1. Picture on the Fly
2. Oral Quizzes/Podcasting
3. Mobile iReporting

3. Film & Picture on the Fly Projects
http://www.koce.org/filmonthefly
http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/200
9_04_01_archive.html

4. What should be our Pic on the Fly topic?
 http://polleverywhere.com

5. Step 1: Set up a ClassText Alert
 http://txtblaster.com
 Ask students to join the class text alert

6. Set up a Flickr Mobile Email Address
 http://flickr.com

7. Text out the assignment via ClassText
Alert
 Short Assignment
 Send out Flickr Mobile Email address so students’ can text in
pics or videos from phones
 Give time frame
 “send in a pic/vid of “ethnocentrism” to dropkl2@flickr.com by
9am Fri”

8. Text Message Project:Text Homework
Alerts
Jimbo Lamb
High School MathTeacher
Pennsylvania
Text for Homework
Uses: http://textmarks.com
http://mrlambmath.wikispac
es.com/
Interview with Jimbo Lamb

9. SummerText Program
Norwich Free Academy
(Connecticut)
 Text of the week!
 Monday is vocabulary day
 Tuesday is science facts
 Wednesday is mathematics
 Thursday is history
 Friday covers a variety of
topics including general
knowledge and cultural literacy
 Each day is a theme
 Parents and Students Opt in

10. 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/andrewdo
uch/Site/Home.html

11. 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

12. 9th GradersText 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

13. Project 2: Oral Language
Exams
http://google.com/voice

14. Web 2.0Voicemail
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

15. GoogleVoice in Foreign Language
 http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazin
eVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

16. Listen toWorld Language Educator Peyton
Jobe
Cell Phones in Language Learning with GoogleVoice
 Click Here

17. Getting Started
 Log in to http://google.com/voice
 Register or log in with Google account
 Get your local area code phone number
 Click on SETTINGS---GOOGLE VOICE SETTINGS

18. Click onVoicemail &Text

19. RECORD NOW…(record your oral quiz
assignment)

20. You can add contacts and add them to a
group….Click on CONTACTS

21. Mobile Podcasting Project: ConnectingAlgebra
to RealWorld
High School Algebra
Used http://yodio.com
Web link:
http://www.yodio.com/yo.asp
x?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6U
bBgsTMN2aC
Interview with Jimbo Lamb

22. Project 3: Mobile
Blogging with iReporting

23. iReporting
http://wainauguration.org/

24. Tumblr Example
School of Performing Arts
 http://brindschool.tumblr.com/

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

26. Mobile Blogging…Getting Started
Tumblr
 http://www.tumblr.com/
 Phone call, picture, text or video post
directly to blog
 Goodies

27.  Log in to http://tumblr.com
 Create an account
 Click on GOODIES to get mobile email and phone number.
 Register your phone
 Call theTumblr number

28. iReporting Resources
 http://blogger.com
 Send pictures, text, and video directly to blog
 http://flickr.com
 Send pictures and video to private or public media storage site.
 http://youtube.com
 Send video to private or public media storage

29. Future Project: Qrcode
Scavenger Hunts!

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

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

32. Qrcode Book Reviews

33. http://mrrobbo.
wordpress.com/

36. Qrcode 2nd grade trip to zoo

37. Getting Started…
 Download a bar code reader to your cell phone.
 Andriod Market or iPhone Market (free readers)
 Log in to http://reader.kaywa.com/
 Create the QRcodes
 http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/
 http://www.i-nigma.com/CreateBarcodes.html
 http://www.beqrious.com/generator