Product Evolution...The Nokia Cell Phone

For my DS106 video assignment, I was thinking about my focal theme and how I can tie this assignment into my theme.  I searched 'technology' within the audio assignments and two popped up. I was immediately drawn to the first one and thought it would be so fun to look back at the evolution of cell phones (this was a much taller order than I originally thought, who knew there were so many of them?).  Most kids these days have cell phones so it relates to my focal theme of technology in the classroom.

When I was a kid, my teachers didn't need to worry about students having phones because they weren't around.  As I went through middle and high school, the only thing teachers needed to worry about was phones ringing or some kids playing snake (best game ever!!). A few friends of mine were lucky enough to get to text but not me!  Anyway, now phones in the classroom are an ongoing battle that most 3-12 grade teachers need to deal with (sometimes I miss the simpler days).

I chose to focus on Nokia because they were the first phones I had. The Nokia 252 was my first cell phone and man did I think I was cool when I changed the face...have I mentioned snake??

Here is the history of Nokia phones:

All images were taken from Google...the final image can be seen larger here.