Bring Your Own

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Bring Your Own
Technology in Museums and Galleries
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2001 ( 2002) Guardian SMS poetry competition
Hetty Hughes txtin iz messin, mi headn'me
englis, try2rite essays, they all come out
txtis. gran not plsed w/letters shes getn,
swears i wrote better b4 comin2uni. she's
african

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2003 - 2005
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people who wrote some of the first poems
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use your mobile phone to be in two cities at once
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Lynn Gayford and Elvie Thompson, Sussex Past
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So, what happened?
Evaluation conducted and written by Elvie
Thompson, trial commissioned by Lynn Gayford,
Sussex Past
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• Some bugs
• predictive text
• some children raced each other
• children moving round the site independently
• the best route through the site
• children want a phone each, not to work in
  groups
• over anxious about children dialling Australia

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These children seems to have found it more
difficult to work in teams, with more of them
saying they wanted to have a phone each, one
between two, or just writing that they wanted it
so all the people got a go texting.
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Many of the children were unfamiliar with using
mobile phones and found them frustrating at
first, but I would say that figuring them out (as
the majority did) added to their sense of
achievement and enjoyment by the end.   Another
problem was that in one of the groups that did
have an adult present, the adult (for reasons I
did not see) ended up leading the activity,
reading aloud from the booklet and giving the
children turns using the phone. The children in
the group quickly became bored and were entirely
unengaged.
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The response to closed questions from the
children was overwhelmingly positive   When
asked what they had liked best about the mobile
phone activity, the most common answer was using
the mobile phones, for example, using stuff that
we use in everyday life to learn, having modern
things in an old place.    
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The children also liked the independence and
freedom to go at their own pace, saying, no-one
interrupted, it makes you feel independent,
it made a good change from just people
talking. The adults who visited with the
schools also commented on the value of
independent learning and how enthusiastic the
children were about the activity.
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Children wanted to have more interaction
from Luc, getting specific answers for their
texts. This is backed up by information from
Blink on the texts from the children they
recorded, What can I do? and How can I help?

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the children and the adults with them all
clearly thoroughly enjoyed the activity and a
couple of the questions sparked really
interesting debates in which the children looked
at the evidence around them for answers and
discussed these as a team before deciding which
answer to send back to Luc.
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The group found the activity very memorable and
Lynn Gayford has since had parents approach her
to say how much their children enjoyed the
activity.
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I wonder if it would be possible for Luc to give
instructions as well as information telling
users to go somewhere, do or find something.
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I personally would like to see the booklet in
the form of a comic perhaps it could tell a
story about an event at the castle and the texts
from Luc could lead the users to find evidence of
what happened in the story. I wonder if the
system can be programmed to recognise alternative
spellings. There was a lot of text to read in
the booklet for this age group Ideally I
would like to be able to redesign the activity
and then trial it with a family audience.
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These stem cells taste funny.
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