Using real-world resources for teaching and learning in the classroom can make education more meaningful and relevant to our students. One way in which the school-to-world connection can be made is with one and two-way video-conferencing technology. Traditionally, video-conferencing systems have been expensive, often difficult to use, and as a result, not accessible to many teachers. To address this issue, the Digital Videoconferencing (DVC) Project at Kent State University’s Research Center for Educational Technology (RCET) has been investigating new and unique ways of using videoconferencing for learning with mobile phones. This article starts out with an overview of what we know about cell phone use in education, provides a glimpse at other projects around the world that are pushing the envelope with regards to mobile and connected technology for teaching and learning, and ends with a description of the Video Cell Phone Project at Kent State.