This document provides an overview of free and easy ways to make teaching and learning more mobile using technologies like cell phones, QR codes, and social media. It discusses using polling apps, phonecasting with iPads, Google Voice, managing cell phone use in the classroom, creating and scanning QR codes, using URL shorteners, and posting to Posterous via email, text, or the Posterous cell phone number. Recommendations are made for allowing others to post to Posterous without adding their email addresses. The document also briefly mentions upcoming location-based apps and services for mobile learning.

1. FREEways to Making
Teaching & Learning Mobile
Michael M. Grant, PhD | TAIS Technology Institute | April 15, 2011

2. Michael M. Grant
The University of Memphis
@michaelmgrant
http:/
/viral-notebook.com

3. Download the
slides & resources
from here.
http://bit.ly/freeways

4. Polls, Phones & Pods

6. Solve for X
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/MjEzMjYyNzIyNw

7. Phonecasting with iPadio
http:/
/ipad.io/UCR

8. Using Google Voice
Video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7PoWsFlsKU&feature=player_embedded

9. Managing the Cellphone Classroom
http://www.techlearning.com/blogs/35840
by Lisa Nielsen

10. 1. Upon entry and departure of class, please ensure cell phones are turned
off and stored in your backpack.
2. On days when we are using cell phones for learning, please ensure they are
set to silent.
3. Only use phones for learning purposes related to classwork.
4. When phones are not in use on a day we are using cells for learning place
them face down on the upper right side of your desk.
5. If you notice someone in the class using their cell phone inappropriately,
remind them to use proper cell phone etiquette.
6. If at any time your teacher feels you are not using your cell phone for class
work you will be asked to place your phone in the bin in the front of the
room with a post-it indicating your name and class.
• After the first infraction each month you can collect your phone at the end of
class.
• After the second infraction you can collect your phone at the end of the day.
• After the third infraction your parent or guardian will be asked to retrieve
your phone. If you use the phone inappropriately again during the month
your parent or guardian will be required to retrieve your phone.
• At the beginning of each month, you have a clean slate.
Classroom Management
From Lisa Nielsen at http:/
/www.techlearning.com/blogs/35840

11. Using QR Codes

13. QR codes every day

14. Android iOS
To scan, you need a QR code reader.
Not one of these? Check your app store/online for a reader for your
phone. Blackberry, I’m told, has one built into the system.

15. Let’s try it out!

16. URL Sites
Shorteners QRjumps.com
Goo.gl GoQR.me
Bit.ly QRstuff.com
Snap.vu
To create, you need a QR code generator.

17. In Bitly.com

18. In Bitly.com

19. GoQR.me, QRstuff.com & QRjumps.com
options for encoding, sizes & output

20. GoQR.me, QRstuff.com & QRjumps.com
options for encoding, sizes & output

21. GoQR.me, QRstuff.com & QRjumps.com
options for encoding, sizes & output

22. http://bit.ly/i9JO59
Fantastic ideas for QR codes.
from Tom Barrett & Paul Simbeck-Hampson

23. Poe in the Pit | Interactive Comic
http://poeinthepit.com

24. The Pit and the Pendulum | Interactive Comic
http://poeinthepit.com

25. No smartphone? Try Snapmyinfo.com

26. On laptops or netbooks? Try QR Reader
http://www.dansl.net/blog/?p=256

27. Last one. Try this.

28. Posterous

29. Posterous. Dead simple sharing.

30. Normal.
• Email post in with post@posterous.com
• Posterous recognizes the address & posts it to
your site.
• Other email addresses can be added as
contributors. Posterous will recognize these
addresses then post automatically.
Ways to post in Posterous.

31. Normal.
• A single cellphone number can be entered to
post.
• SMS to 41411
• Format: POST Message.
• Posterous does not accept MMS. (It will accept
MMS with an email.)
Ways to post in Posterous.

32. Collecting Student Responses
& Artifacts in Posterous

33. Make a statement (text, photo, video)
about mobile teaching & learning.
Put your name in the Subject Line.
SMS Send a text to 901-451-9321
Send an email to
MMS post@viralnotebook.posterous.com
Send an email to
Email post@viralnotebook.posterous.com

34. Allowing others to post without adding emails.
• Under Settings >> Commenting & Posting
• Set to “Anyone can post, I will moderate.”
Ways to post in Posterous.

35. Allowing others to post without adding emails.
• Under Settings >> Commenting & Posting
• Set to “Anyone can post, I will moderate.”
• Others can email to
post@yoursite.posterous.com
• Others can MMS to
post@yoursite.posterous.com
Ways to post in Posterous.

36. Bypassing Posterous' Limit to One Cell Number
• Directions at http:/
/bit.ly/mobileteach
Google
Gmail Posterous
Voice
Note: Google Voice does not support MMS.
Ways to post in Posterous.

37. “Anyone can post.”
• I don’t recommend keeping this setting 24/7.
• Just for security & piece of mind.
Consider a private site.
• I have not tried these posting options with a
private site. Please let me know what works.
Consider a Posterous site as an add-on.
Recommendations

38. Twitter

39. Twitter

41. Home Screen

42. Essay Screen

43. Classroom Option

44. Tweeting?
@michaelmgrant

45. On the Horizon:
Location-based

46. Broadcastr.com

47. Scvngr.com

48. Cybraryman’s Cellphones in Class
http://cybraryman.com/cellphones.html

49. Download the
slides & resources
from here.
http://bit.ly/freeways
@michaelmgrant
mgrant2@memphis.edu

50.
Michael
M.
Grant
2011