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>Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Joseph Kautz <[log in to unmask]>
>To: LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Cell Phone Cameras as Instructional Tools


Hello. I recently broke down and bought a cell phone with a camera in it from
Sprint.  It turns out that this little device has great potential as an
instructional tool.  The features that are particularly appealing are
1. Ability to easily attach voice memos via the phone to describe a
picture.
2. Ability to easily attach a text annotation on the phone. (okay
so far without diacritics, etc)
3. Ability to send the photos to others or to a web gallery directly from
the phone.
4. Once the picture is in the web gallery, visitors can add comments about
the picture and hear the voice memos created when the picture was taken.
5. The owner of the gallery can create captions for pictures and even add
cartoon bubbles with text to images.

The potential applications are numerous.  Students could create online
presentations with slides and comments almost in real time.  No
bothering with cameras, downloading, uploading, web page creation, and all
of the other stuff that takes students and instructors off task.

At this point there are significant limitations, in particular related to
text input, but the spontaneity, richness of input, and ease of use are
quite compelling.

I am obvioulsy just a newbie to this.  Has anyone piloted such use of cell
phones in instruction?  Joseph

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Stanford Language Center
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