iPhones /Cell Phones for Digital Storytelling

1. iPhones/Cell Phones for Digital Storytelling

2. iPhones/Cell Phones CONSTRUCTIVIST

3. iPhones/Cell Phones

4. NEW MEDIA(um) Lev Manovich describes new media as modular, automated, and variable (Manovich, 2001) coinciding with the multiple features of a cell phone.

5. Need:

6. Matching Innovation to Need Constructivist Learning Theory and Inquiry Learning

7. Research: A number of institutions are utilizing cell phones in a variety of ways to enhance learning. Notable: International Society for Technology in Education | Home. There are various organization devoted to digital storytelling that have begun to explore the cell phone as a development media: http://www.storycenter.org/ http://electronicportfolios.org/digistory/ http://www.storymapping.org/ http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2392

8. What were their findings? Early exploration suggested using digital storytelling promotes scholarship. Mobile digital storytelling allows students to utilize their analytical skills, and apply what they have learned in a meaningful way.

9. Who were the “lead thinkers” for this innovation, and how did they convince a manufacturer to produce it? According to Wikipedia, the first commercially automated cellular network (the 1G generation) was launched in Japan by NTT in 1979 (Wikipedia, 2010), para. 8). Others had preceded the technology with various other innovations. The synthesis of various technologies resulted in the cell phones we have today.

10. Adoption> Who would you expect to be (or who are) the innovators and early adopters in your field of work for the innovation you are exploring? What strategies are the most persuasive in convincing them to adopt the innovation?  With cell phones others have acquired and used them for the convenience of having a phone. This was then expanded into additional applications for convenience. Utilizing the cell phone in education was then adopted -perhaps later because the technology hadn't caught up to the ideas for use.

11. Adoption> Who do you think would be (or who are) the laggards in terms of rejecting the innovation? What strategies would be best to help move them toward adoption? Laggards are likely to be people uncomfortable with new technology, not necessarily uncomfortable with cell phones.

12. Adoption> Which combination of perceived attributes would be best for helping your innovation meet critical mass in your industry?  Gaining acceptance of cell phone or m-learning in education would need to be approached from many angles. Faculty would have to be informed of the concept, and shown useful ways to make it meaningful for both them and the students. They would also have to be given support and training on how to make the cell phone useful in a learning setting. Beginning with a core group the technology would have to be diffused through the opinion leaders, passed down through word-of-mouth, and then the process begun again.

13. Development:

14. What problems did your innovation encounter in the development process? Generally, problems are difficult to find in the literature.

15. Who was the intended audience for your innovation? Consumers

16. Commercialization:

17. Production Current production is world-wide.

18. Manufacturing There are issues about sustainability and green manufacturing.

19. Packaging Cell phones are package in numerous ways –often over-packaged in terms of green.

20. Marketing and Distribution • According to Wikipedia: “There are over 600 mobile operators and carriers in commercial production worldwide. Over 50 mobile operators have over 10 million subscribers each, and over 150 mobile operators have at least one million subscribers by the end of 2008 (source wireless intelligence) ,“(Wikipedia, 2010, para. 44).