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20 uses of Mobile phone in class
Idea 1: Use the Notes feature to collect every day language.
Ask students to use this feature to take notes on the English they read or hear outside of school and either present the notes to the class or send them to you as a text message.
2-Students can take pictures of English text
This can be achieved by using the Camera feature on their mobile phones.
3: Use free programs to organize language samples.
An extension to Ideas 1 and 2 is to use a free program like Evernote (www.evernote. com) to upload notes and pictures
4: Use the Voice Memo Recorder feature to record language from media outlets.
Most phones include a memo recording feature that can collect language samples from TV or radio. The students’ collected samples give you an opportunity to analyze the language, discuss where they were collected, and
provide feedback.
5: Use the Voice Memo Recorder feature to record conversations outside the classroom.
Students can record interviews or conversations they engage in outside the classroom.
6: Use the Text Messaging feature to reinforce vocabulary learning.
you could text the words covered in class to encourage students to review them outside the school context.
7: Use free programs to make flashcards for mobile phones.
You or your students can create vocabulary flashcards that can be retrieved, shared, and practiced anywhere.
8: Use the Text Messaging feature for circular writing.
One activity is circular writing, where students create a story together by contributing one text message at a time. Each student writes a sentence or two and then sends this on to the next student, who adds another message, and so on until the story is complete.
9: Use the Text Messaging feature for tandem learning.
Interactive writing can be encouraged through tandem learning. In this activity two students who wish to learn each other’s native language pair up and exchange text messages.
10-Use the mobile phone to keep a blog.
Students use the Text Messaging and Camera features to add messages and post pictures to their personal blogs.
11: Use the mobile phone for micro blogging on Twitter.
Micro blogging involves sending short messages (limit of 140 characters, including punctuation and spaces) from a computer or a mobile phone.
12: Use the mobile phone for social networking.
Like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are enormously popular social networking tools that allow groups of “friends” to meet, post and chat to.
13: Use the mobile phone for a language exchange.
Using phones for speaking may not seem like an original idea, but one way to encourage reluctant students to start speaking is to establish a language exchange.
14: Use the mobile phone for “phlogging”.
To encourage students to practice individual speaking, they could start phlogging, a recent form of blogging that entails calling a number and leaving a message on a website,
15: Use mobile phone memory to distribute listening material.
Many phones have memory for graphics, photos, and music that you can use to download listening material for your students, who can in turn transfer them to their phones or other media.
16: Use mobile phone memory to distribute reading material.
Similar to the listening idea above, you could download reading materials for your students. There are numerous sites with free reading material, including Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org), which also has
many audiobooks available.
17: Use the mobile phone to play games.
Many of the free games for mobile phones, such as Scrabble and crossword puzzles, involve a focus on language.
18: Use the Voice Memo Recorder, Notes, and Calendar to keep a portfolio.
Most learning inevitably takes place outside the classroom. Students need to process new information and assimilate it into their inter-language, which is their current stage of second language development as reflected by their control of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary.
19: Use the mobile phone to check student comprehension and get feedback.
Mobile phones can also help you in your teaching. One way is to add an element of interactivity to your classes through audience participation.
20: Use mobile phone memory for research and data collection.
Mobile phones are now becoming indispensible for research and data collection. Being small and light, they are excellent portable tools for researchers to collect socioeconomic, health, and other critical information
from communities worldwide. 
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