Mobile Devices #1 with Teens

"About 75 percent of teens plan on having a mobile phone as long as they live, and about 40 percent believe a mobile phone is the only phone they'll ever need, according to a study by Harris Interactive. According to the study, mobile devices are the No. 1 status item among teens, followed by jewelry and shoes"

From CTIA and Harris Interactive,September 12, 2008

 Google:  Mobile Phones Are The Future Of The Internet

February 20, 2007 - Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vinton G. Cerf speaks during a press conference in Bangalore. Cerf has predicted that mobile phones, not personal computers, will fuel growth of the worldwide web as countries like India snap up millions of handsets monthly. (AFP)

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 Mobile/Cell Phone Uses in the Classroom

• Fifty Ideas in Fifty Minutes: Mobile Phones
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• Polling
• Assignments: Allow students to upload assignments; text messaging of assignments; photo assignments.
• Calculators: Available outside math classroom
• Digital cameras
• Global Positioning Systems
• Mobile Web Internet access
• mp3 Player: Listening to podcasts; classroom audio projects. 
  • Send Free Text Messages
  • 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.
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  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 â€“ 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)

  1. Eyespot Mobile Cast – Shoot, mix and share videos from and to a mobile device.
  2.  Feed2Mobile - a free service which offers a bridge between web-based and mobile content.
  3.  Gabcast - a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content to mobile devices.
  4.  Gcast â€“ create audio broadcasts using a mobile phone.
  5.  Google Video (almost) - See Search and Watch Google Video From Your Mobile Phone &  srobbin Mobile Video
  6.  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.
  7.  MobiOde - create mobile surveys and polls which collect data from mobile phones.
  8.  Mobile Study - create quizzes that can be downloaded directly to mobile devices.
  9.  Motionbox - share, edit, and store personal videos.
  10.  MySpace Mobile - access MySpace from a mobile phone.
  11.  Odiogo - create text to speech and download directly to mobile devices.
  12.  quillpill - write stories on mobile phones 140 characters at time.
  13.  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.
  14.  StudyCell - create flashcards online on a mobile phone or website.
  15.  Txt60 - upload audio (wav, mp3, mp2, ogg) and video (avi, mpg, mp4, 3gp, mov, wmv, flv) files with a maximum size of 100 MB.
  16.  Utterz - create and follow audio, video, pictures and text discussions with friends or people with similar interests from any mobile device or computer.
  17.  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.
  18.  Winksite - create a mobile site for daily assignments, m-blog, RSS feeds, links, etc.
  19.  YouTube Mobile – create, upload and browse video from a mobile phone.
  20.  Zoho Creator Mobile - online database application accessed from a mobile device. <!--[if !supportLists]--><!--[endif]-->

   

  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

   

   

  The hottest handhelds today are Apple's iPod touch and iPhone. In addition to being great audio and video players, the iPod touch and iPhone run a mobile platform with over 25,000 software applications available from the App Store. With thousands of apps listed in the Education section of the App Store, it can be hard to find the very best apps for teaching and learning. Check out Tony Vincent's presentation on some really cool iPhone Apps!

   

www.ustream.tv/channel/tony-vincent