Digital Diary Dialogues is a mobile learning project that uses smartphones to facilitate cross-curricular, peer-to-peer learning activities between students in multiple countries. Students in Finland, Scotland, England, and Afghanistan create and exchange microblogs and learning objects using Nokia N95 phones. The project focuses on effective use of mobile technology for communication and learning, using international connections to motivate students, and sharing pedagogical approaches across partnerships.

2. Digital Diary Dialogues
an eTwinning mobile learning project
Digital Diary Dialogues is a creative ‘student voice’ focused
innovative ‘mobile learning’ eTwinning project. The focus of
this project is cross curricular, multi age and stage with peer
to peer learning activities at the core and is based on the
use of the Nokia N95 as a ‘learning tool’ for students in
Finland, Scotland, England and Afghanistan creating and
exchanging micro blogs and learning objects.
Nick Falk
LEADER OF INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT

3. Digital Diary Dialogues
• Effective use of mobile phone technology as a
learning and communication tool
• Using international links as a creative means of
motivating students
• Mobile phone safety
• Sharing pedagogies across the partnership
• Extended learning

4. Digital Diary Dialogues
Week 1
Getting to know you
8am 11am 1pm 4pm 8pm
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5. Digital Diary Dialogues
Week 2 - Life in a Week
Daily focus
Monday sports and games
Tuesday school clothes and environment
Wednesday curriculum and school activities
Thursday friends (who and where)
Friday family and home
Saturday clothes and social life
Sunday food

6. Digital Diary Dialogues Week 3 –
What makes me happy.
What makes me sad.

7. Digital Diary Dialogues
Week 4 – Spring
Science of Spring
Y10 students created and micro blogged learning objects via the mobile phone in
response to questions from our primary pupils and students in our other partner schools.
Temperatures were also recorded and exchanged daily.
Images of Spring
Images of the signs of spring created by students using mobile phone digital video and
stills exchanged to show how and when spring arrives in our different lands
Emotional responses to spring
Haikus and poems created by our students expressed their thoughts and feelings about
the coming of spring. These were transmitted using the Nokia 95.

8. Spring

9. Student Voice
•Pupils are involved in the selection of topics
• Pupils independently created the content using only mobile
phone technologies
• Learning objects created and exchanged directly peer to peer
via their mobile phone
• Emotional expression shared through micro blogs
• Pupil engagement in 24/7 learning through mobile phone
technologies
• Direct pupil learning interactions in support of each others
learning

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14. Digital Diary Dialogues
an eTwinning mobile learning project
“The reality is that knowledge rather than
being found in books and in lectures or
on the Internet is actually constructed in
collaboration among learners” (Brown &
Duguld – 2002)

15. A word of encouragement from the people
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