The BBC News website has a report on a project it ran with a school in London.

BBC journalists helped the teenagers at Lilian Baylis Technology School in Lambeth, use their cell phones as news-gathering tools.

The pupils took photos and recorded interviews on the phones, sending the results by Bluetooth to laptops. The radio pieces were edited together using Garageband.

What is interesting about this experiment is that the pupils were using digital tools that are part of their everyday lives. And, of course, they can then listen back to their reports on their iPods or cell phones are well.

More schools should be encouraging this sort of creativity which turns passive consumers into active producers of news.

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