[Technology 995] Re: M-learning through cell phonesLissa probus joyess1 at gmail.comTue May 8 23:41:49 EDT 2007
Oh Barry, thats brilliant! On 5/8/07, Bakin, Barry <barry.bakin at lausd.net> wrote: > > Perhaps you all have encountered this before but this is a first for me. > Looking out the window of my office in downtown L.A. one has a great view > of the billowing clouds of smoke coming from a fire that broke out in the > Griffith Park area of Los Angeles a few hours ago. Wanting to get more > information about the fire and in particular about how it might be affecting > freeway traffic for my commute home, I googled "fire in griffith park" and > in addition to some news reports, found a link to a local weblog that said > "People are putting up photos all over Flickr. The tag is here." Clicking on > the link brought me to > *http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=griffith+park+fire&s=rec*<http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=griffith+park+fire&s=rec> which > indeed claims to have some 300+ photos posted already. > > I got to wondering about how this could all be used in a teaching context, > especially in light of recent discussions in this forum and others about > incorporating mobile technologies into adult education. What if teachers > worldwide, communicating through email, set up a common assignment such as > "Sometime today, post pictures to flickr (or some other website that allows > photos to be posted directly from cellphones)of a family doing something > together and tag the photos with the same descriptor which is "Family > Activity ESL" or something very specific." Students would then be sent out > to capture images on their cellphones as homework and they would send them > directly to the flickr. The next day, all of the students could type in the > search term to see the images that were posted from all over the world and > use them as the basis for discussion or writing assignments in their own > classes or between classes or individuals worldwide... > > Just thinking outloud here... > > Barry Bakin > > Pacoima Skills Center > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > National Institute for Literacy > Technology and Literacy mailing list > Technology at nifl.gov > To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to > http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/technology > Email delivered to joyess1 at gmail.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.nifl.gov/pipermail/technology/attachments/20070508/50f9da30/attachment.html
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