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 ILiz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna Universityelikeren@umich.eduhttp://cellphonesinlearning.comhttp://blogtalkradio.com/elikerenTwitter: LkolbPresentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcellLiz’s Business CardSend a new Text Message to:50500In Message:KolbUsing 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 Radiohttp://blogtalkradio.com/elikerenInterviews with teachers, administrators, and educational organizations that use student cell phones in K-12 for learning.

4. Why Cell Phones?Accessibility72% of U.S. population have Internet access at home55% have broadband87% of U.S. population own cell phonesLow CostEnd of 2012 education technology spending will reach 56.2 billion dollars.How Students’ View Cell Phones3 Generations of Cell Phone Users (NPR)How Students View LearningFree Agent LearnersAnywhere, anytime, any place at any pace1-800-2chacha OR Text CHACHAThe 21st Century Professional WorldFuture 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 phoneSMS TextingGroup Brainstorming, alerts, polls, surveys, quizzes,MMS TextingSend pictures/videos to instructor & other studentsPhone CallRecord interviews, observations, brainstorms, quizzes…etc.

8. Questions…Do ALL students need their own phone?NO! Groups, Web Options, LandlinesWhat if my school does not allow cell phones on campus?Activities work very well off-campus for homeworkCan 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 plansStudents with disabilities?Speech to Text & Text to Speech Options

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

11. CPSProject: BrainstormingInterview with Joe Wood

13. Film/picture on the Fly Projectshttp://www.koce.org/filmontheflyhttp://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

14. Film/Pic on the Fly at MACULhttp://textmarks.comJoin our alert group! AND get the email address to text pictures and videos toLiz will text out “concept” at 3:30pm today!Winner gets a free copy of Liz’s BookPosts will immediately show up on Liz’s Blog athttp://cellphonesinlearning.com

15. Text Message Project: Text Homework AlertsJimbo LambHigh School Math TeacherPennsylvaniaText for HomeworkUses: http://textmarks.comhttp://mrlambmath.wikispaces.com/Interview with Jimbo Lamb

16. Text Alert Project: Text-An-ExpertAndrew Douch9th Grade High School Social Studies“Who was the first man to walk on the moon”Power of Networks in Digital Worldhttp://web.mac.com/andrewdouch/Site/Home.html

17. 9th Graders Text Messaging Romeo and Juliet9th Grade English in Michigan

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

22. Create a whole text message novel of Romeo and JulietMobile Podcasting/DropcastingUsing 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.

23. Mobile Podcasting Project: Field TripsHigh 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 teacherhttp://www.schooltube.com/video/d9152d458cd14a41934b/Podcast-with-dropio

26. Mobile Podcasting: Songs about elements in Periodic tableChemistryPeriodic TableHigh Schoolhttp://sarahdi.blogspot.com/

27. Mobile Podcasting Project: Author StudyMiddle School 6th-7th GradeUsed: http://gabcast.comWeb link:http://541sparkes.blogspot.com/2007/07/author-blog-6.html

28. Mobile Podcasting Project: Connecting Algebra to Real WorldHigh School AlgebraUsed http://yodio.comWeb link:http://www.yodio.com/yo.aspx?cardId=LvAhgDUPZd6UbBgsTMN2aCInterview with Jimbo Lamb

29. Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio BroadcastsHigh School Students Community Live Radio Show in MaineUsed http://blogtalkradio.comWeb link:http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lobstertalk

30. Mobile Podcasting Project: Live Radio BroadcastsAdvanced Spanish Don Quixote Discussion Each week different students in charge of discussionhttp://talkshoe.com

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

32. Mobile Surveys and Quizzeshttp://mobiode.com/Create surveys and quizzes online and send to phones via text message (cost) or mobile InternetTake Liz’s Surveyhttp://techtools.mobiode.mobi

33. Mobile Note taking and OrganizationUsing 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 Organizationhttp://dial2do.com Create an accountSend EmailsTranscriptionTranslationPost to your Google Calendar, get SMS reminders of your events.Create remindersListen to any website or news feed

35. Mobile Novel Project: Cell Phone BestsellerPopular 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 Novelshttp://textnovel.com

37. Mobile Photo and Video blogging or PostingPosting 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 postinghttp://blogger.comUnder Settings Mobilehttp://twitter.comUnder Settingshttp://flickr.comUploading Tools---Emailhttp://facebook.comUnder Mobile at bottom of page

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

40. Photoblogging Project: iReportingMobile JournalismHigh School Students Document InaugurationTools: Flickr, Twitter, YouTubehttp://wainauguration.org/

41. PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Lab ActivitiesMathematics 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 CulturePsychology teacher in Michigan has students document everyday cultural experiences with cell phone and sends them to class Facebook account.Web link:Protected in FacebookInterview with Larry Liu

43. PhotoPosting Project: Send Videos of Homework to CellsPhysical Education Teacher in AustraliaUsed: http://Utterli.comWeb link:http://mrobbo.com

44. PhotoPosting Project: Documenting Australian Environment9th Grade Geography students in AustraliaUsed: http://Utterli.comWeb link:http://australianenvironment.wordpress.com/

45. Mobile Video PostingWyoming High School Social Studies TeacherFlip-book animationsCamera Phone and MovieMakerExampleshttp://www.zshare.net/video/7346981531bfed75/http://www.zshare.net/video/73469957b6fa6692/

46. Participate in Democratic Processhttp://www.visiblevote.usVote on issuesSee how your representatives are votingCommunicate with your representatives

47. Connecting Student Cell Phones to Classroom Instruction: Part IILiz KolbUniversity of MichiganMadonna Universityelikeren@umich.eduhttp://cellphonesinlearning.comhttp://blogtalkradio.com/elikerenTwitter: LkolbPresentation Link: http://tiny.cc/maculcellLiz’s Business CardSend a new Text Message to:50500In Message:KolbUsing http://contxts.com

48. Jumblihttp://jumbli.tv

49. Mobile Business Cardhttp://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 recodinghttp://freeconferencepro.comRecord up to 250 people at one time on one callHost controlsPrivate storage

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

53. Podcasting and Cross-Posting to Blogs and Wikis with iPadiohttp://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 BloggingPosting 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 Lighthouseshttp://flagr.com

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

58. Call and Listen to MOMA’s latest galleries1 (801) 349-3832

59. Web 2.0 VoicemailA 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 Languagehttp://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/CellPhonesintheLanguageClassro/192995

61. Listen to World Language Educator Peyton JobeCell Phones in Language Learning with Google VoiceClick Here

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

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

64. Geo-Blogging Project: Orienteeringhttp://kaywa.com

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

66. Avatar Project: Spanish Oral ExamsHigh School Spanish 2 & 3 StudentsDeveloped an Avatar to take oral examsUsed http://voki.comFocus: Engagement in oral speaking, oral speaking exams, culture representation with imagesInterview with Katie Titler

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

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

70. Getting StartedDO NOT attempt to change policy (yet)Survey Students on Cell PhonesWho has one? What is their plan? Preference for Communication?Talk with students about cell phone safety & etiquetteCreate a social contract for cell phone use with school assignmentsShow Digital Dossier Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IYZVYIVLAStart with OPTIONAL homework/EC projects outside of classroom.Start with what YOU are comfortable with (such as phone call resources like Drop.io)