Fwd: Brainstorming about cell phones

[Andrea Berez]

My wholehearted thanks go out to Linda, Peter, Gary and Theresa. These are
exactly the kinds of ideas I was hoping for. Thanks for stimulating some
ideas.

Best to all,
Andrea

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Andrea L. Berez
PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/

On 11/2/07, Gary Holton <gary.holton at uaf.edu> wrote:
>
> Andrea,
>
> This comment is tangential to your question, but it should also be noted
> that mobile phone text messages represent an emerging data type in many
> endangered language communities. Collecting a database of text messages
> can be fun for linguists and language workers, and encouraging people to
> text in their native language may help to further language maintenance
> efforts.
>
> Gary
>
>
> --
> Gary Holton
> Associate Professor of Linguistics
> Alaska Native Language Center
> University of Alaska Fairbanks
> Box 757680
> Fairbanks, AK 99775-7680     USA
> tel. +01 907 474 6585
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> http://www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffgmh1
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why not look at developing learning communities thru the use of cell
> > phones in your paper?  Cell phones could be useful in giving more
> > opportunities to people to use their language(s) to communicate with
> each
> > other. It seems that cell phones could provide a means for marginalised
> > people to empower themselves by improving their opportunities for
> > networking with each other.
> >
> > Mark Warschauer has written on the idea of the digital divide and
> > e-learning and you might get some ideas from him.  He has published
> > something for UNESCO about the digital divide.  This paper has something
> > on how Hawaiian language programs have benefit from the use of new
> > technologies to get speakers of Hawaiian who are spread out over
> numerous
> > islands to interact by using ICT -
> > http://www.gse.uci.edu/PDF/multipliers_1.pdf and
> > http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/markw/revitalization.html
> >
> > Also, if you can get hold of a paper given at the IEEE conference in
> 2002,
> > it might help you get other ideas (I've copied the web address and
> > abstract below):
> > "Mobile learning: cell phones and PDAs for education"
> > (
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=26602&arnumber=1186176&count=496&index=325
> )
> >
> > Houser, C.   Thornton, P.   Kluge, D.
> > Kinjo Gakuin Univ., Japan;
> >
> > This paper appears in: Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings.
> > International Conference on
> > Publication Date: 3-6 Dec. 2002
> > On page(s): 1149- 1150 vol.2
> > ISSN:
> > ISBN: 0-7695-1509-6
> > INSPEC Accession Number: 7679063
> > Posted online: 2003-03-20 11:23:29.0
> >
> > Abstract
> > The authors introduce m-learning - learning with mobile devices, such as
> > cell phones and pocket computers. They review the hardware and research
> on
> > m-learning, and discuss their future work with mobile foreign-language
> > study.
> >
> > I hope this helps a little.
> > Best wishes,
> > Theresa
> >
> >
> >>>> Linda Barwick <Linda.Barwick at arts.usyd.edu.au> 3/11/2007 11:45 am >>>
> > Sorry forgot to copy this to the list.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> >> From: Linda Barwick <Linda.Barwick at arts.usyd.edu.au>
> >> Date: 3 November 2007 11:44:31 AM
> >> To: Andrea Berez <andrea.berez at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Brainstorming about cell phones
> >>
> >> This isn't really dissemination, but a friend of mine who is a
> >> music psychologist told me about an experiment she ran recently
> >> where she had a text message sent out at regular intervals that
> >> prompted volunteers to note down whether they were listening to
> >> music or imagining music at the time. This gave a statistically
> >> significant sample of how much music-listening or -imagining was
> >> prevalent in that group.
> >>
> >> You could adopt something similar for noting down language use.
> >> Might be interesting to put together a picture of how often people
> >> are actually using a given language in day-to-day life over a given
> >> period.
> >>
> >> Linda
> >>
> >> On 03/11/2007, at 8:37 AM, Andrea Berez wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> In preparation for a talk at LSA, does anyone out there have some
> >>> suggestions about how cell phones might be used as a means for the
> >>> dissemination of language information? A colleague working in The
> >>> Congo, where cell phones--and not the internet--are everyone's
> >>> main link to technology, is wondering how the language activists
> >>> in her community might tap into them as a maintenance/
> >>> revitalization resource (no pun intended).
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions you have are welcome--no idea is too outrageous to
> >>> mention!
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>> Andrea
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> -----------------------------
> >>> Andrea L. Berez
> >>> PhD student, Dept. of Linguistics
> >>> University of California, Santa Barbara
> >>> http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~aberez/
> >>
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