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Mobile Phones in Classrooms Toni Twiss NZ Ministry of Education eFellow 2008 www.tonitwiss.com/mobile

Quick Mobile Facts Worldwide there are 2.5 billion mobile users Over half (59%) are in developing countries In the past 12 months the number of mobile users grew by 500 million Every month in China there are 5-6 million new users 33 Billion text messages are sent each month in China alone

It is predicted that mobile phones are going to be the primary device to access the internet: They are cheap and you don't need to read or write to access them or the material on them Estimates are that 80-100 million Chinese mobile phone users log on to the internet via their handset every month Marc Leperrouza – as Quoted on Ewan McIntosh's edu.blogs.com

Cost of Mobile Internet in New Zealand

Basic 3G phone

Vodafone 715

$145 on prepay

Free on a 24 month contract

Data charges with Vodafone

Casual Daily Rate - Starts July 28th 2008

No monthly access fee, you just pay $1 for the day with a daily allowance of 10MB.

Only pay on the days you use it.

10MB allowance for the day

My Project

Ministry of Ed eFellowship

Sponsored by Vodafone

Working with two high school classes

Senior Media Studies – You Tube, Wiki

Junior Social Studies – Inquiry unit, Immigration maps and blogging

Key focus: Information Literacy

Standard Phone Tools

Calendar

SMS/MMS

Timer

Stop Watch

Memo generator

Camera

Video Camera

Voice Recorder

Measurement Converter

Currency Converter

World Time

Calculator

Alarm Clock

MP3 Player

Bluetooth

Using the Calendar

Students organise their day

Memo – create a list

Task – set a reminder

Using the Camera

Creative writing inspiration

5 frames

Field Trips

School camp

Rocky shore study

MyArtSpace http://www.myartspace.org.uk/web/index.php

Documenting a process eg. science, maths

Turn your whiteboard in to a smartboard!

Qipit - www.qipit.com

Take a photo of text

Send via email or MMS on your phone to

[email_address]

[email_address]

To forward to a friend just enter their email address in the body of the message

Using the Voice Recorder

Creating

Podcast – send to computers via bluetooth

Record in a quiet space rather than a noisy room

Send voice answers to teacher or other students

Audio diary or log

Gather quick responses to a text or idea or topic

Receiving

Personal music player – educational recordings

Sharing ideas between groups

Sharing Files

Bluetooth

Share podcasts

Share photos

Share notes

Send messages within the classroom

QR Codes

Disseminate information to whole group

Exchange details

Send weblinks

Download information

QR Code Readers

Kaywa Reader

Free programme

Phone carrier charges download rates

Free download - to your computer

then bluetooth to phone

reader.kaywa.com

Why go on the internet on your mobile?

Web Browsing

News

Current events

OperaMini

You Tube

Collaborating

Wikis

Blogs

moblogging

Qik www.qik.com

Utterz www.utterz.com

Jott www.jott.com

Turn Your Phone into a Super Tool

Applications you can add on to your phone

Graphics Calculator

Equation Solver

Graph2Go

Map software – requires ongoing internet

Dictionary

Thesaurus

Encyclopedia

Interaction

Audience Polling

Mobile Quizzes

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