Session 3- Exciting ways to use Mobile phones in the MFL classroom and beyond

1. Session 3- Exciting ways to use Mobile phones in the MFL classroom and beyond

2. Using mobile phones Objectives for this session: 1) to discuss some possible uses of mobile phones 2) to have an opportunity to explore your own phone and record some information 3) to discuss the benefits of ipod usage 4) to learn how to create a mobile slideshow 5) to discuss ideas for homeworks using mobile phones 6) to debate validity of using mobiles as a learning tool

3. Using mobile phones • Issues: • Banned in many schools • Risks of inappropriate behaviour • Fear of pupil intercompetition • Concern of pupils not having a phone

4. Using mobile phones • However, there are huge benefits... • Enjoyment and motivation- MFL becomes cool again • Speaking the pupils’ language whilst teaching them ours • Increasing range of services available via WAP • e.g. YouTube, www.mobilephrasebooks.com • Allows learning to be extended well beyond classroom and lesson time

5. Using mobile phones Lasting motivation is about students feeling a genuine emotional investment in the activities they undertake. This will come about through a learning process that centres around rich, real experience with relevance in the wider world. Connected magazine, Learning and teaching Scotland

6. Using mobile phones If pupils can take their driving test theory exam on their mobile, why can we not teach them to use them responsibly? Me, today

7. Using mobile phones • Useful tools available on most mobile phones... • Voice recorder • Camera • Video camera • Stop-watch • Bluetooth • Ability to play-back videos and music How much would it cost a department to have enough of these to share between 2?

8. Ideas for video projects using mobiles... • Describing school as go round it • Describing local area • Guide to saving the environment • Following and giving directions • Describing friends • Recording grammar explanations during the lesson Using mobile phones

9. Using mobile phones Issue: how to get the recordings back to the teacher Options- 1) bluetooth them to a computer 2) bluetooth them to teacher’s phone 3) other options?

10. Using mobile phones For example, directions: - in pairs, pupils decide which room they will give directions to -write script - walk around the building and record the directions - swap phones / bluetooth to each other and follow the instructions - find out whether they followed instructions appropriately FOR EXAMPLE

11. Using mobile phones House and home - pupils build up to estate-agent style description of their house - free choice of recording manners - mobile phone - voice recording - video on camera

12. Using mobile phones • Other ideas... • record an interview / dialogue at home • leaving answer phone messages through Gabcast • record grammar explanations during your lessons. • They can then make the worksheet as homework, based on your advice.

13. Using mobile phones • Key = extending learning beyond the classroom • - more and more we will also need to think about how to capitalise on the power of ipods • quizzes produced using www.iquizmaker.com • videos converted using www.zamzar.com • podcasts • mobile slideshows / role-play raps

14. Using mobile phones • How to make a mobile slideshow • Change PowerPoint page setup to Portrait • Zoom out to 25% and ensure that text is legible • Save as file type .jpeg [will put it into separate file] • Run the images through Photo Story 3 • - including adding a voice-over as required • 5. Save as for portable media devices • 6. Using www.zamzar.com convert to .mp4 file

15. Using mobile phones Moblogging - the ability to update a blog from distance e.g. During a trip - no need to wait a week to get back to the classroom www.shozu.com – allows you to send materials to the blog from mobiles www.gabcast.com – an answerphone with a national number, avoiding expensive phone calls.

16. …there is no road: Using mobile phones we make the road by walking Antonio Machado