Going Mobile!

Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.

com

What’s in your bag?

8-18 year olds who own:

9%

37%

12%

53% Kaiser Foundation Report: Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds 3-9-05

Online teens

flickr.com/photos/subliminalpudding/5444473/

• 94% use the internet for school research

• 41% use email and IM to contact their teacher or classmates for help

• 58% use websites set up specifically for their school or class

• 87% of their parents believe the internet helps students with their schoolwork

The Internet and Education: Findings of the Pew Internet & American Life Projecthttp://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/39/report_display.asp

• Wireless internet capable (coming soon)– Opera

• Built in microphone• Touch screen• Plays video (with add

on)

• Wireless internet

• Play high quality video

• Read eBooks

• Listen to audio

• Read blogs

• Access to the internet

• Take photos

• Record video

• Display multimedia

• Send text / Images(varies by model)

• Wireless internet• Take photos• Display multimedia• Send / Receive

email(varies by model)

Thinking small

• CellFlix Festival• 30 second video• Filmed entirely on

mobile phone, edited on computer

• High school and college students

Video by Forrest Sansom and Bryan Oki

DiscoveryEducatorAbroad.com

South Africa

• MobilED pilot in Pretoria, South Africa

• HIV/AIDS Project• 15-16 year olds• Mobile access to

Wikipedia via SMS• Server reads content

aloud• Students create

audiocasts for community

Instant Protest

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/7723.php0

What can you do with the technology your students

already have?

unitedstreaming.com

Quiz CenterWriting PromptsImage LibraryArticles

Search

• Google

• AOL

• Technorati

Reference

• LookWayUp.com

• Answers.com

• LangToLang.com

• ConvertIt.com

DiscoverySchool.com

• Same maps as Google Maps and Google Earth

• Zoom in and out

• Scroll around map

Wapedia• Same info as

Wikipedia• Images scaled for

mobile viewing• Simple search

interface• Separate sites for

phones and larger mobile devices

Semacodes

Semapedia

Images from semapedia.org

Semacodes in the classroom?

• Mobile class website

• Homework assignments

• Bulletin Boards

• Science / Math Fair– Follow up information– Survey questions

• School history

Photo: flickr.com/photos/rosstsai/93413149/

QuizFaber

• FREE• Windows only• Publishable on

Internet– Also supports

mobile phones

• Supports variety of questions

• Feature rich• Easy to use

Photos to go

flickr.com/mob• FREE (up to 100

photos)• Email photos from

phone• Large user community• Numerous

enhancements / hacks• Strong RSS support

Keeping track of it allmobilicio.us• Mobile version of

del.icio.us• Great for keeping

mobile links organized• Can view all

bookmarks or just mobile

• Use in tandem with other sites (Mob5 or Winksite)

Podcasting

Moblogging

Mobile Homes

Winksite

Winksite.com• FREE• Large number of

options• Can be complicated• Supports blogs, polls,

message boards, calendar

• Strong RSS support

Mob5

Mob5.com

• FREE

• Simple interface

• Very few options

• Supports images, email and links to phone numbers

It’s making use of what they already have in their pockets.

It’s not about new technologies…

Resources

Mob5.com/teach42

Teach42.com/Going-Mobile

Teach42.com/mobile.wml

Steve DemboSteve_Dembo@Discovery.c

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