Smartphones go to College

1. Smartphones go to College Steve Merrill Enterprise Web Services Mesa Community College

2. “My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.” Charles Kettering inventor of the electric starter

3. Turn Your Cell Phones Off!!!

4. I have a Story to Tell • Do not mistake how powerful a web site can be • Misconception:If it’s on the webit must be true

5. How Do We Communicate?

6. Three (3) Questions for this group… • Follow these directions: • On a piece of paper to hand in, Question #1 Quiet please

7. 19 to 55 group • Question: What is a Smartphone? Not an Answer: Not the opposite of a Dumbphone. Quiet please

8. 56 to 99 group • Question: How would you use Smartphones in your college today, not just in the classroom? Not an Answer: Call grandmother. Quiet please

9. 100+ IQ Group • Question: Did you make the wrong assumption? • The Answer is: YES!

10. Everyone (else) … • Question: What is a Smartphone? • Question: How would you use Smartphones in your college today, not just in the classroom?

11. Today’s website

12. Today’s website • Content is King & Access is Key • Mesacc.edu on an iphone.

13. Today’s website • Our students demandconvenience and access. • We demand success.

14. Smartphone Applications • BreadCrumbz Multimedia directions • Locale Turns phone on vibrate • YouTube Video class instruction • Google Calendar Class schedule conflicts

15. BreadCrumbz

16. Locale With Locale, you create situations specifying conditions under which your phone’s settings should change. “At School” situation notices when your location is “1833 W Southern” and changes your ringer volume setting to vibrate.

17. YouTube • Deploy course material on YouTube and view on yourSmartphone when it is convenient.

18. Google Calendar

19. Additional Technologies • dotMobi • Websites made for your phone – mtld.mobi • JaneAusten.mobi • Traffic conditions – Google maps • dot-Tel • TravelNurse.tel • TelNic.com Movie • Smart bar codes • “Google Demands Better Bar Codes” • QR Codes

20. View Your Site on a Mobile Device • Rethink your design • Compact and to the point • Use Keywords • Check your score • Change it up

21. JaneAusten.mobi

22. Google Traffic

23. Google Traffic

24. Mesacc.mobi

25. Additional Technologies • dotMobi • Websites made for your phone – mtld.mobi • JaneAusten.mobi • Traffic conditions – Google maps • dot-Tel • TravelNurse.tel • TelNic.com Movie • Smart bar codes • “Google Demands Better Bar Codes” • QR Codes

26. TravelNurse.tel

27. TelNic.com on communication

28. Mesacc.tel • Contact information • Updates on .tel DNSnot a website • Use with Smartphone address book and itupdates instantly

29. Additional Technologies • dotMobi • Websites made for your phone – mtld.mobi • JaneAusten.mobi • Traffic conditions – Google maps • dot-Tel • TravelNurse.tel • TelNic.com Movie • Smart bar codes • “Google Demands Better Bar Codes” • QR Codes

30. Google Demands Better Bar Codes

31. QR codes • Article: Mainstream America is Ready for Bar Codes - Converging “Realspace” and “Mobilespace” • QR Code generator - link

33. Demographics • Three out of six billion people in the world carry mobile devices. • China is currently signing 10 million new subscribers a week • “This means that mobile phone penetration is bigger than all PCs and TVs in world combined.” • “The mobile web will see people take advantage of the great thing mobiles are – always on, always with you – and they will provide more services, a marketing experience, a scanner, a camera, a GPS, an address book.” • Trey Harvin, head of dotMobi, will be one of the keynote speakers at this week’s 2009 IIA Congress, which takes place today & tomorrow. • Mobile internet to be bigger than TV and PC combined – Business and Leadership, 18 May 2009

34. Demographics • .com 80,680,646.cn 13,854,687.de 12,652,025.net 12,245,210.org 7,632,126.uk 7,382,123.info 5,188,463.nl 3,285,095.eu 3,049,034.biz 2,034,796.us 1,619,628.mobi1,200,000 • Total 150,823,833 • Ref: www.domaintools.com/internet-statistics/, 18 May 2009www.domainesinfo.fr/statistiques.php, Mar 2009

35. Quotes • Eric Schmid, CEO Google“One of his concepts was ‘Entertain Me’, whereby Schmidt explored the use of mobile phones to transmit news based upon a precise geographical location, such as which building a user is entering.“We need to reinvent the way the web delivers this content, so that you can have the kind of experience, when people are wandering around with their …”. – Business and Leadership, 8 Apr 2009

36. Google on Mobile Innovation • Google CIO Douglas Merrill on Innovation 7:08 – 8:16 2 Aug 2007

37. “When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened.” John M. Richardson Jr.

38. SteveMerrill.tel

39. Bibliography • 101 Great Educational Uses for Your Handheld Computer - K12 Handhelds, 2005 • Google CEO questions future of print media – Business and Leadership, 8 Apr 2009 • Mobile College App: Turning iPhones Into 'Super-Clickers' for Classroom Feedback –Chronicle.com, 15 Dec 2008 • More than 40% of campus students own smartphones, yearly tech survey says – UC Davis, 5 May 2009

40. .Tel of the WeekTravelNurse.tel12 May 2009

41. Commended .TelMesacc.tel17 April 2009