This is a virtual field trip (VFT) that I created to expose my Emerging Technologies students to how schools use cell phones as instructional and learning tools. After all the students completed the VFT we talked about classroom guidelines to ensure the cell phones will be effective and a "good disruption" for learning and not a distraction to learning.

1. Click for
Glossary
Travel Journal Click to read
Statistics on Teen
Cellphone Use
About this Virtual Field Trip
Communicating & Publishing Cellphones in
Pictures & Video
the Classroom
2 1 st C e n t u r y T o o l s f o r
Assessment
Teaching & Learning
Mrs. Wiscount
Research & Organizational Tool
Ethics/Safety/Appropriate Use
Click for Resources

2. Travel Journal
Directions:
1) Click on & Save (change FILastName in filename
to your first initial followed by last name) the
Cellphone in the Classroom Travel Journal.
Change “Student Name” on front cover with
your first & last name.
2) Click on & Visit
each link of the
Cellphone in the Classroom Travel Journal
slides, and answer the tour questions in the
Travel Journal for each of the VFT slides.
3) When you are finished, Upload the
Cellphone in the Classroom Travel Journal at
the Moodle assignment link.

3. About This Virtual Curriculum Standards
Field Trip The National Educational Technology Standards
1. Communication and Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to
communicate and work collaboratively, including at a
Content Topic distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the
learning of others. Students:
 a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts,
or others employing a variety of digital environments
This virtual field trip will teach  and media.
students how to use cellphones 3. Research and Information Fluency
for classroom learning while Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use
information. Students:
exercising proper ethics &  b. locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize, and
ethically use information from a variety of sources and
etiquette for engaging effective media.
c. evaluate and select information sources and digital
education. 
tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks.
Click to
Watch 5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues
Introduction related to technology and practice legal and ethical
Purpose Video behavior. Students:
 a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible
use of information and technology.
This virtual field trip will offer  b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology
that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
students opportunities to explore Learning Objective
how cellphones can be used in Students will learn a variety of ways to
the classroom for 21st century create, communicate, collaborate, &
teaching & learning. publish using the 21st century tool, a
cellphone, to bring the student culture into
the classroom in order to connect that
culture with classroom learning.

4. Glossary
All definitions
from
Wikipedia.com
 QR Code
 QR Reader – quick response software that can be downloaded to a
cellphone in order to read a QR code for easy access to media online.
 Podcast – a video or movie that is broadcasted to subscribers.
 Text messaging
 SMS
 SMS language
 Electronic or Digital Publishing
 Collaboration
 Photo Sharing with Photo Gallery

5. Communication &
Add voice to your pictures
Publishing
 See how students use cellphones in the classroom
Link to Video
Link to Video
Click to Read
How Teens are
Using Their
Cellphones?

6. Click on the Links
Below to See Video &
Pictures & Video
Picture Examples
Created Using
Cellphones in the
Classroom
 Trash or Treasure - students use cellphones to create
digital picture galleries
 Project 365 – a year-long digital story
 The GeoHistorian Project – learn how to create
students create landmark resources for the
community using cellphones.
 How to Shoot Video on a Cellphone – by jfatheree on viddler
 Life of a Bird – by jfatheree on viddler – this film was shot
entirely on a cellphone for a school assignment
 A Short Story about Roy - create Your Own Videos
with your Cellphone & Qik.com

7. Click on the Links
Below to See
Assessment
Assessment Examples
Created Using
Cellphones in the
Classroom
 Different roles using cellphones in the classroom
– read pages 2 & 3 to see what you can do at
different sites with your phone.
 Many examples of student projects created
using cellphones in the classroom
 Grampians Camp - Students document a field
trip with cellphones
 Phone a Friend in Exams
 Messaging Shakespeare
 California Student Media Festival Winners

8. Research & Organization Tools
 Web searching
 Websites mobile-ready?
Click on the desktop site & mobile site to see the difference in looks?
 Classroom websites
 Create mobile website
 Educational resources
 Mobile Search engine
 Libraries with text-messaging services
 Voice recorders
On Most Cellphones: Click on the Links to
 Calendars See How Cellphones
Can Help Students
 Notepads Become More
Organized in the
 Calculators Classroom

9. Ethics/Safety/Appropriate Use
Click on the Links
If Creating the
Below to Read about
Cellphone Policy in the
Classroom, What Would the Positives &
Negatives When
Your Guidelines Be to
Students Use
Ensure Student Learning
Cellphones in the
& Not Student
Classroom
Distraction?
 Fair Cell Phone Use in Schools – the Pros & Cons of
Cell Phones in Schools by Beth Lynne
 Cellphones in the Classroom – read about the good
and not so good when cellphones are allowed in
the classroom
 It all looks good, but are cellphones in education
here to stay? Scan over the article, “Mobile Devices:
Facing Challenges & Opportunities for Learning”
by Patricia Duebel

10. Click on the Links Below
to See Why Using
Summary Cellphones in the
Classroom is So
Important for Students’
Discussion Learning?
 Three Generations’ View of Cell Phones – listen
to this podcast
 The 21st Century Digital Learner - can you relate?
 “Students Phoning It In” by Danielle Mario
 “What Can You Learn from a Cellphone? –
Almost Anything by Marc Prensky

11. Resources
 Graphics
 Passport - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Diplomatic_Passport.JPG
 Camera flip phone animated – Animation Factory
 Cellphone, silver & black - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CellPhone.jpg
 No cellphone logo - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_cellphone.svg
 Roadsign cellphone - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roadsign_-
_Cellphone.svg
 Sony Ericsson -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Overwiev_of_Sony_Ericsson_D750i_cellphon
e.jpg
 Mon iPhone - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mon_iPhone_3G_02.jpg
 Nokia 6280 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_6280_phone.jpg
 No Cellphone Use -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NocellphonesSouthsidePlaceTX.JPG
 Razor 2000 - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Razor2000ppx.jpg
 Computer lab - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Computer_lab.jpg
 http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Fortune+Teller
 http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Newspaper+Headline
 http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Dog+Ate+My+Homework
 http://www.imagechef.com/ic/make.jsp?tid=Pennant+Orange

12. Resources
 Graphics
 Accessories notepad - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Accessories-text-editor.svg
 Text html - http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=text
 Texting - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Texting.jpg
 No Texting while driving -
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NotextinganddrivingWestUTX.JPG
 http://q-ontech.blogspot.com/2008/12/integrating-mobile-phones-into.html
 http://www.babble.com/CS/blogs/strollerderby/archive/2009/02/16/do-cellphones-belong-in-the-
classroom.aspx
 http://blog.cyberlearning.org/?p=55
 http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/2007/02/textmessaging_a.html
 Videos
 Cellphones in the Classroom I -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhAH6nncCKw&feature=player_embedded
 Cellphones in the Classroom II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG4VxP2CyJc
 Cell Phones in the Classroom : Learning Tools for the 21st Century -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXt_de2-HBE
 Cellphones in the Classroom III - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGRvtS-
2ao&feature=related
 http://www.viddler.com/explore/jfatheree/videos/28/
 http://www.viddler.com/explore/jfatheree/videos/67/
 http://vimeo.com/9197200
 http://qik.com/video/3705334

13. Resources
 Websites
 http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/2008/09/new-statistics-on-teen-cell-phone-use.html
 http://yodio.com/
 http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/phone-a-friend-in-exams/2008/08/19/1218911717490.html
 http://www.flowtown.com/blog/teens-and-their-mobile-phones?display=wide
 http://k12cellphoneprojects.wikispaces.com/
 http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/
 http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/03/19/mobile-devices-facing-challenges-and-opportunities-
for-learning.aspx
 http://vceoes.wordpress.com/pictures/
 http://www.mediafestival.org/finalists.shtml
 http://www.netc.org/focus/examples/messag.php
 http://www2.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=cf9045aa-bbf7-40f6-820b-
0fab7e7e2d22&k=68380
 http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky-What_Can_You_Learn_From_a_Cell_Phone-
FINAL.pdf
 http://teachingtechnology.suite101.com/article.cfm/fair_cell_phone_use_in_schools
 Podcasts
 http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=17603266&
m=17603254
 Travel Journal
 http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/studentactivity/DebatableIssues.pdf
Last
Slide

14. Put Cellphones
to Use for
Classroom
Learning
Congratulations for
completing the
virtual field trip.
Remember to upload your
Cellphones in the Classroom
Travel Journal to the
assignment link on Moodle.
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