Reasons

=Reasons for using mobile phones in class=

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 * Digital Camera:**
 * Take photos quickly and easily, wherever you are
 * Upload photos to [|flickr] using your phone's email facility
 * Take a series of still photos to then turn into an [|animation]
 * Ask pupils to take photos of objects (as homework or on school trips) to then study or draw in class
 * Use camera and text to document and record [|fieldwork]

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 * Blogs:**
 * Update your class [|blog] by text message or email (known as [|moblogging])
 * Read blogs on the way to school
 * Post [|photos] to your blog you have just taken and a description (useful as a [|diary] while on a school trip)

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 * Video Camera:**
 * SCIENCE - Film experiments and watch them again for revision and report writing
 * ENGLISH, MODERN STUDIES - Film class discussions
 * COMPUTING - Add video clips into powerpoint presentations
 * PSE, MODERN STUDIES, HISTORY - Video interviews of people in the community
 * PE - video can be used to watch sporting activities such as a basket ball run-ups, discus throw, jumping a hurdle and compared to professionals.
 * DRAMA - pupils can watch themselves act and thereby improve and critique themseleves as if they were in the audience.
 * MUSIC - watch posture or positioning of hands on musical instruments through video.
 * ASSESSMENT in most subjects - Pupils could record responses to NAB assessments instead of writing them.


 * Video player:**
 * ENGLISH, HISTORY, MODERN STUDIES, GEOGRAPHY and others - Download video clips or TV shows to study for homework - the ability to watch a video clip allows the pupil to actually see and hear the person they are studying rather than reading quotes from a book. e.g. Winston Churchill’s speachs in WW2.
 * MFL or MUSIC - Transfer [|video clips] to pupils' mobiles (or iPods) to study for homework
 * MFL - Watch news clips, cartoons, film clips
 * PSE: Learn topics like [|first aid] using video clips then share them with your friends using bluetooth or infrared.

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 * Sound Recording**
 * Record sound clips of debates
 * MUSIC - allow pupils to hear themselves sing or play music
 * MUSIC - Record music composed by pupils (and let parents hear what pupils have achieved)
 * MFL - Record sound clips of pupils speaking (pupils can email them as homework to the teacher)
 * ASSESSMENT in most subjects - Pupils could record responses to NAB assessments instead of writing them.


 * MP3 Player:**
 * MFL or MUSIC - Transfer sound clips and [|video clips] to pupils' mobiles (or iPods) to study for homework
 * MFL - listen to sound clips of people speaking, news items, music with French or German lyrics
 * ENGLISH - Listen to [|audio books] of [|books and plays]


 * E-Book reader:**
 * Download [|e-books], short storys and [|preview chapters from books] for pupils to read or use as reference, or [|create your own]


 * Internet facilities:**
 * Find information and facts online using sites like wikipedia

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 * Text messaging (SMS or bluetooth):**
 * SMT, GUIDANCE - Send a text message to remind pupils about exams and prelims (or detentions ;-)
 * SMT - Send a text message to [|notify parents] about absentees
 * GUIDANCE - Encourage pupils to [|text the school] about bullying, crime or anti-social behaviour
 * ENGLISH - Ask pupils to write a '[|keitai tanka]' text message poem and send it to a friend


 * Word Processing facilities:**
 * ENGLISH - Type up essays

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 * Spreadsheet facilities:**
 * MATHS, COMPUTING - teach spreadsheets and charts
 * SCIENCE - analyse data from experiments


 * Organisation facilities:**
 * TEACHERS - Synchronise your phone with your Outlook email and calendar, so that your phone beeps to remind you of staff meetings or CPD courses.
 * TEACHERS and PUPILS - Set calendar reminders or the alarm clock to remind you to do your marking or to remind pupils to do their homework


 * Other:**
 * COMPUTING - Write computer programs and games to play on your mobile
 * COMPUTING and most other subjects - Use it as a USB flash drive to store files you're working on at school and home
 * TEACHERS - Control your computer or powerpoint slides by bluetooth