Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Can't pass up a session with Hall Davidson! Hall is opening the session with a look at the stats on who allows/who forbids use of cell phones. It's a long list on the "allow" side; a short one on the forbid side (Fidel Castro, the Talian, US school districts). The ability to immediately send a communication - What's the application? Kids can be creative with use of a cell phone - hey, they have them in their pockets, duh. Video:

   
• YouTube account and put in cell phone - first step in uploading video from cell phone to YouTube.
   
• Old School: voice messages pushed to community
   
• New School: Push video messages - you can push out a video - the power of having a human face attached to message. Tremendous difference between text and images.
   
• Sample video - 3rd grade teacher in Wallingford, Pennsylvania. Video of Henry autistic student, making his first presentation in school, sent to parents via cell phone.

Telephone:

   
• Jott.com - voice to text - you can send it to Twitter. Anything that can receive text, jott can go to. Application? Intervention officer has automatic transcription of student encounter. Transcription source.
   
• We're pretty close to translation cell phones.
   
• GCast.com - Jen Dorman is doing great podcasts through GCast. Question: what would be a good use of cell phone in education: 888-654-2278 (Enter origianl Number if you're using someone else's account 301-785-0719 3) enter password 8534 4) speak) 5) when you're done, press ## (twice).  If you would rather use text, text a story in 6 words.
   
• PollEverywhere.com - As you text in, your data is being tallied live. You can get the data in a chart or other options.

Next steps: Revise AUPs to include ethical, acceptable use of cell phones.


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