Transcript Welcome to Class! Please Take Out Your Cell Phones! Mark Frydenberg Bentley University http://cis.bentley.edu/mfrydenberg [email protected] @checkmark.

Welcome to Class!
Please Take Out Your Cell Phones!
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University
http://cis.bentley.edu/mfrydenberg
[email protected]
@checkmark
Polling (PollEverywhere)
Polling (mClkOnLine.com)
• Mclkonline.com
What do teens do with their
phones? (Pew)
Task
2010
2009
Take Pictures
76%
66%
Send or receive text messages
72%
65%
Access the Internet
38%
25%
Play Games
34%
27%
Send or receive email
34%
25%
Play music
33%
21%
Send or receive instant
messages
30%
20%
Prensky, 2004
Computer in your pocket
Listen to podcasts
Do Smart Phones
Make Smart Students?
Does your school have
a cell phone policy?
Problems
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Texting during class
Cheating on exams
Bullying
Sending photos
Broadcast PowerPoint
Stream or Record Video
• Qik.com
Interviews
Blackboard / Campus Apps
myhomeworkapp.com
Project Noah
Note Taking Apps
• Synch notes with
Dropbox or the cloud
• Posterous easily posts
text or photos to the
web
Other ideas
• Time experiments with
stopwatch
• Take photos of results of
experiments for lab reports
• Take photos of whiteboards
for future review
• Use bluetooth to transfer
project materials between
group members
• Receive SMS & email
reminders from teachers
• Record yourself giving a
presentation
• Download and listen to
podcasts
• Using GPS to identify
locations
App Development
Native Apps
• Build an app compiled for a
specific phone platform.
• Requires coding /
programming skills
• Uses SDK from phone
vendor.
• Requires dev license from
vendor to publish on App
Store / Marketplace
Web Apps
• Built on HTML5, CSS3,
JavaScript
• Work on multiple phone
platforms
• Avoid the “app store”
Software Tools
• Often web-based, drag n
• PhoneGap.com
drop environments
• MobileNationHQ.com
• No or minimal coding
• AppMakr.com
• Limited functionality?
• May produce an app (to
publish on an app store) or
a mobile web site
• Create apps for multiple
phone platforms
MySchoolApp: Native App for
Windows Phone 7
• Modify the template and
recompile to make an app for
your school
• Implemented in Visual Basic, C#
• Code available on CodePlex
• Free to post on Marketplace with
edu account from DreamSpark
http://myschoolapp.codeplex.com
Dev Tool Example: AppMakr
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Create an account on AppMakr
Need an iOS Developer Account ($99)
Developer.apple.com/iphone
iOS Provisioning Portal –allows testing apps
on other devices (ad hoc distrib) or on App
Store
Thanks!
Mark Frydenberg
Bentley University
http://cis.bentley.edu/mfrydenberg
[email protected]
@checkmark