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These are very rough notes to give me a place to record all the links that I have been viewing! Mobiode - polls and surveys - easy and free as long as you only have one active survey at a time. You can export stats to Excel, but you do get ads. From Toy to Tool... From Toy to Tool is an informative take on use of cell phones. It gives you some interesting stats, and looks at ways of using phones in class. Poll Everywhere Poll Everywhere - I thought that THIS WAS IT... it's free, it allows kids to text a response and the answer appears live on your powerpoint. But then I realised that your texts would be sent to AUSTRALIA... $$$$ A portal to media literacyA portal to media literacy - Michael Wesch. He has some excellent things to say on what learning really means - interesting, given our desire to incorporate cell phones into our classes. Is the tail wagging the dog?! The cultural myths and realities of teaching and learning Graeme Nuthall (Canterbury researcher) discusses his research in a downloadable paper. He says that students need to engage with a fact three times before they will actually LEARN it. Perhaps mobile phones are one of the ways to facilitate student engagement? udefn - udefn is a SMS service which lets **you define** keywords or shortcuts to your favorite bots. It turns your phone into a remote control. Just text your command. Customize your profile to read the latest news, see RSS updates, or even trigger your backup. (I haven't explored this one, but I liked the idea!) The e-clicker from Apple Ollie Bray - 50 ideas in 50 minutes - some good ideas and some nice software. Think mobile phones for learning. - excerpts below:
 * Mobiode** is a simple and flexible solution for **mobile surveys and polls**, which can be used to collect data from users via their mobile phones.You create survey in your web browser and participants to the survey respond using their mobile phones.All results are visible through our web interface in real time or in the Excel. ([|Download] pdf presentation.)

Mobile/Cell Phones Are Helpful in the Classroom [|Cell Phones] -West Virginia Department of Education [|Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Good Practice Guide] by Terry Freedman [|Fun and games with mobile phones: SMS messaging in microeconomics experiments] - Stephen L. Cheung [|New Study Recasts Cell Phones as Effective Teaching Tool] - by Jennifer Anderson [|Embrace the constructive uses of cell phones in the classroom for learning] - Wesley Fryer [|Cell Phones in Math Class] - by Ben Rimes [|From Toy to Tool: Cell Phone in Schools] (Blog) - by Liz Kolb Cell phone college class opens in gadget-loving Japan, still a test at Cyber University - Sydney Mobile Herald __[|Prensky-What_Can_You_Learn_From_a_Cell_Phone-FINAL.pdf]__ - Article by Marc Prensky [|Pens, Paper and ... Cellphones?]: Examining How Modern Technology Can Enhance Learning in the Classroom [|Cell Phones for Learning / iPhones in the Classroom!] - Wesley Fryer's Teach Digital wiki Connected Part 1 of 2 Connected Part 2 of 2 Mobile Phones, Mobile Minds A look at the world of young people with mobile phones, and the impact on schools and education.

Mobile/Cell Phone Uses in the Classroom > Assignments: Allow students to upload assignments; text messaging of assignments; photo assignments. > >> >> >> > > > > > > > > > > [|Mobile Notepad] > >
 * Polling
 * Calculators: Available outside math classroom
 * Digital cameras
 * Photography -data collection and documentation; citizen journalism; creative writing stimulus, notes.
 * Video clips: TV journalism; creative movie-making; suggests behavior-modeling clips.
 * Citizen journalism
 * Downloadable Programs: tools for collaboration; teaching programs; fax senders; programming languages; access to other devices.
 * Global Positioning Systems: field trips; multiplayer search games.
 * Graphic Displays: literature, instructional texts, animations.
 * Mobile Web Internet access: Viewing mobile websites; text only sites.
 * Internet Browsers: basic online reference tools; dictionaries & encyclopedias; search engines.
 * mp3 Player: Listening to podcasts; classroom audio projects.
 * [|Fifty Ideas in Fifty Minutes: Mobile Phones]
 * Send Free Text Messages
 * [|Text 4 Free]
 * [|Tech Faq]
 * SMS (text-messaging): quizzes, games, tests and test-preparation, opinion polling, reminders, classroom discussion, tutoring.
 * Social networks based on the cell phone: [|Cellphedia] SMS Social Network Service.
 * Voice: language lessons, i.e., English, Japanese using mobile flash cards, dictionary and phrase book software; guided tours; examinations; suggests cell-phone-delivered lectures, with feedback facilities.
 * [|ispott] - mobile scavenger hunt game
 * [|e-viva project] - eVIVA stands for ‘electronic virtual ipsative valid assessment’ and is a research project into the use of online portfolios in ICT at KS3 / yrs 8-9, using the latest technologies including mobile phones to research new ways of assessing pupil performance.

Using Your Camera Phone in the Classroom See [|8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education]- by Jeff VanDrimmelen > > > > > > > >
 * Whiteboard/Blackboard Archive
 * Handheld Scanner
 * Reminder List
 * Learn Student’s Names and Faces
 * Security/Liability Device
 * Assignments
 * Instant Blogging
 * Memories

Mobile Applications > > > > > > > > > >
 * [|Twitter Mobile] - a social networking and mini blogging service that is great for backchannel discussions. [|What is Twitter, and is there any reason I should care?]
 * [|Jott] (audio messages to text messages)
 * [|Poll Everywhere] (Simple Text Message Voting and Polling, PowerPoint Polling)
 * [|Delicious Mona] (news aggregator for your mobile phone)
 * [|Mobilicious] (del.icio.us social bookmarks on a mobile device)
 * [|Flickr] – Create cell phone projects with pictures page using [|Flickr Mobile Site].
 * [|Tell a Story with 5 Photos for Educators]- Visual Story Telling
 * [|Google SMS] - Text message your search query to 466453 ('GOOGLE' on most devices) and receive a text message back with the results.
 * [|Google Mobile] - Get Search, Maps, Gmail and more, designed especially for your mobile.
 * [|Buzzwire] - a dynamic and innovative media services company creating new ways for you to easily bring the world of streaming internet content — including audio, video and live radio — to your mobile phone.

20 Ways Make Content Accessible on a Mobile Phone (Device) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [|CellFlix Festival] - The CellFlix Festival is an annual competition dedicated to the development of creative content for mobile delivery. It's all about imagination, fantasy, and story -- created through and presented on the small screen >
 * 1) [|Eyespot Mobile Cast] – Shoot, mix and share videos from and to a mobile device.
 * 1)  [|Feed2Mobile] - a free service which offers a bridge between web-based and mobile content.
 * 1)  [|Gabcast] - a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content to mobile devices.
 * 1)  [|Gcast] – create audio broadcasts using a mobile phone.
 * 1)  [|Google Video] (almost) - See [|Search and Watch Google Video From Your Mobile Phone] & [|srobbin Mobile Video]
 * 1)  [|Mobango] – a Universal Mobile Community that allows mobile phone users to publish, convert and share all kinds of user generated content via the web and mobile devices.
 * 1)  [|MobiOde] - create mobile surveys and polls which collect data from mobile phones.
 * 1)  [|Mobile Study] - create quizzes that can be downloaded directly to mobile devices.
 * 1)  [|Motionbox] - share, edit, and store personal videos.
 * 1)  [|MySpace Mobile] - access MySpace from a mobile phone.
 * 1)  [|Odiogo] - create text to speech and download directly to mobile devices.
 * 1)  [|quillpill] - write stories on mobile phones 140 characters at time.
 * 1)  [|ReadTheWords] - a web based service that generates audio files from written material that can be listened to online, downloaded as an mp3 or embedded on a website or blog.
 * 1)  [|StudyCell] - create flashcards online on a mobile phone or website.
 * 1)  [|Txt60] - upload audio (wav, mp3, mp2, ogg) and video (avi, mpg, mp4, 3gp, mov, wmv, flv) files with a maximum size of 100 MB.
 * 1)  [|Utterz] - create and follow audio, video, pictures and text discussions with friends or people with similar interests from any mobile device or computer.
 * 1)  [|Voicethread] – create online media albums (images, documents and videos) and add comments using voice (microphone or phone), text, audio file, or video (webcam). A VoiceThread allows an entire group's story to be told and collected in one place.
 * 1)  [|Winksite] - create a mobile site for daily assignments, m-blog, RSS feeds, links, etc.
 * 1)  [|YouTube Mobile] – create, upload and browse video from a mobile phone.
 * 1)  [|Zoho Creator Mobile] - online database application accessed from a mobile device.