Activities

=Text Based Activities=
 * [|Free SMS] Send unlimited free SMS to any mobile from your computer without any sign up or credit needed.
 * [|Text 4 Free] You can send messages to one or several people at a time from your computer.
 * SMS (text-messaging) can be used for quizzes, games, tests and test-preparation, opinion polling, reminders, classroom discussion, tutoring, assignments. Also handy for shopping lists, addresses, to-do lists,
 * [|Poll Everywhere] (Simple Text Message Voting and Polling, PowerPoint Polling)
 * [|MobiOde] - create mobile surveys and polls which collect data from mobile phones.
 * [|Mobile Study] - create quizzes that can be downloaded directly to mobile devices.
 * [|Mobile Prep] - flashcards
 * [|StudyCell] - create flashcards online on a mobile phone or website.
 * [|Twitter Mobile] - a social networking and mini blogging service
 * [|Delicious Mona] (news aggregator for your mobile phone)
 * [|Mobilicious] (del.icio.us social bookmarks on a mobile device)
 * [|Google's] Text message your search query to **466453** ('GOOGLE' on most devices) and receive a text message back with the results.
 * [|ChaCha] - mobile answers via SMS
 * [|4INFO] - mobile answers via SMS
 * Ping - free text messages from iPhone to iPhone or iTouch as well

=Audio Based Activities=
 * MP3 Player: Listening to [|podcasts;] classroom audio projects.
 * 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.
 * [|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.
 * [|Jott] (audio messages to text messages)
 * [|Gabcast] - a podcasting and audioblogging platform that offers an easy way to create and distribute audio content to mobile devices.
 * [|Gcast]– create audio broadcasts using a mobile phone.
 * [|Odiogo] - create text to speech and download directly to mobile devices.
 * [|VoiceIndigo] - podcasts
 * [|FreeConferencePro] - phone conferencing

=Activities Using Video=
 * [|Google Video]
 * [|Motionbox] - share, edit, and store personal videos.
 * [|YouTube Mobile] – create, upload and browse video from a mobile phone.
 * [|Qik.com.] Streams live video from cell phone
 * [|Animoto] – web application that produces MTV-style videos using the images and music you choose.
 * [|CamStudio]– Free streaming video software.
 * [|Jumpcut] - a free website that provides video editing and hosting services.
 * [|PhotoStory 3] - create photo story slide shows to play on a mobile device.
 * [|QlipBoard]– capture images on a computer and draw, write, record and share.
 * [|Screencast-o-matic] - create a screencasts and upload.
 * [|Sign language] Tests are going on now to provide video sign language over cell phones so deaf people will have another way than texting to communicate via cell phones.

= = =Activities Using Digital Cameras=
 * Photography -data collection and documentation; visual journalism; creative writing stimulus, notes.
 * Video clips: TV journalism; creative movie-making; suggests behavior-modeling clips.
 * Citizen journalism
 * See [|8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education]- by Jeff VanDrimmelen
 * [|Flickr] – Create cell phone projects with pictures page using [|Flickr Mobile Site].
 * ==** QpixL: Visual iPhone Polls Shared on Twitter and Facebook **==

=Multimedia Activities=
 * [|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.
 * [|Utterz] - create and follow audio, video, pictures and text discussions with friends or people with similar interests from any mobile device or computer.
 * [|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.
 * [|Zoho Creator Mobile] - online database application accessed from a mobile device.
 * [|ispott] - mobile scavenger hunt game
 * ===[|GeoCache Navigator]===
 * [|Google Mobile] - Get Search, Maps, Gmail and more, designed especially for your mobile.
 * [|Feed2Mobile] - a free service which offers a bridge between web-based and mobile content.
 * [|Winksite] - create a mobile site for daily assignments, m-blog, RSS feeds, links, etc.
 * [|Zinadoo] - create free mobile websites

=Misc. Info= = = = = =Menu= =Cell Phones in College Courses= =Places to find BlackBerry Apps=
 * **[|How Bluetooth Works]** from howstuffworks
 * **GPS (Global Positioning System) ** - currently the only fully functional Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) using a satellite constellation of 24 satellites. Allows for tracking anywhere on Earth - possible uses include field trips and multi-person search games
 * **GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) ** - a Mobile Data Service available to users of GSM and IS-136 mobile phones. Allows for data transfer from handheld devices and mobile/cell phones
 * **GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) ** - most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. Allows for phone calls across a mobile/cellular network.
 * **WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) ** - an open international standard for applications that use wireless communication primarily to enable access to the Internet from a mobile/cell phone or PDA.
 * **MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) ** - a standard for telephony messaging systems that allows sending messages that include multimedia objects, i.e., photos,audio, videos, etc.
 * **S ****MS (Short Message Service or Text Messaging)** - a means of sending short messages to and from mobile phones.
 * [|TinyURL], SnipURL, and is.gd all shorten long URL's
 * Mobile browsers can act differently so try out your website on several to see how the learner will experience it.