New Phones


New Phones (Telephony or VoIP)

 

This is a resource for teachers. Please check the sites carefully for suitability in your classroom before using with students.

 

 

Introduction

 

"Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network." Wikipedia (accessed 11-13-06 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid))

 

 

Resources

 

 

 

Moblogging

 

 

According to an article by Jamie Devereaux in Converge magazine online, "Mobile social networks allow members to share pictures, video, audio and text messages with anyone in their network using a cell phone."

 

Devereaux offers the following list of mobile social networks along with these descriptors:

 

 

Downloads

 

In addition to ringtones and short video clips, study guides and other educational materials can be downloaded to cell phones.