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 * Cell-phones in the classroom:**

Here are some interesting ideas for incorporating technology in education.

10 Ideas for Using Cell Phones in Education Here are a few places educators can visit to learn more about how to use cell phones to enhance teaching and learning.
 * 1) Student response polling or pop quizzes (no need to invest in additional devices)
 * 2) Use sms to find definitions, currency conversion, math equations, translation and more
 * 3) Use as an internet browser to access endless information
 * 4) Research
 * 5) Read news articles and current events
 * 6) Read books
 * 7) Download and use education programs such as Google Maps and use as GPS
 * 8) Use as a digital or video camera to accompany school projects, publishing, etc.
 * 9) Educate students on appropriate and acceptable social use
 * 10) Use the voice technology to share engaging lectures or lessons

5 Resources for Educators Interested in Enhancing Education with Cell Phones

1. See if your school district offers [|classes] like we do at the NYC DOE. 2. Read this article about What Can You Learn From A Cell Phone? - Almost Anything! - How to use the 1.5 billion computers already in our students' and trainees' pockets to increase learning, at home and around the world -Marc Prensky 3. Visit [|From Toy to Tool – Cell Phones in Learning] a blog dedicated to conversing on methods for integrating cell phones into classroom learning by Liz Kolb. 4. Access to a camera phone? Check out [|8 Ways to use Camera Phones in Education]by Jeff VanDrimmelen of [|EduTechie.com] 5. Check out this PowerPoint by Sharon Tonner about [|Mobile Phones In Education - Constructive Not Deconstructive]!

Toys for Tools Recommended For K-12 [|Recieve text messages without giving out your number!] Posted by Liz Kolb at [|8:53 PM] <span style="color: #818181; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Labels: [|TxtMeBox]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|iPadio (Live Mobile Podcasting)]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|DailyBooth (Mobile Phototweeting)]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Drop.io (Mobile Media Storage and Podcasting) Sign up code "cellphonesinlearning"]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Polleverywhere (Mobile Polls)]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Udefn (Everything's a txt away)]
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">[|Yodio (Mobile Digital Storybooks)]

<span style="color: #666666; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 125%;">A new web application called [|TxtMeBox] allows anyone to set up an account so they can receive text messages without having to give out their phone number. When you sign up, you recive a link that you can post on your website (blog, wiki...etc) so that students or parents can click on the link and send you a text. Fortunately you also get a link to cancel all text messages, so that you can stop them if you get bombarded! Teachers can create a text box so that they can receive texts without giving out their phone number. Here is a link to text me. []

What do you think about using cellphones in the classroom?
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> > **Ideas for Using Wiffiti with Students** > 1) Have students share their ideas regarding an acceptable use policy. > 2) Have students share hypothesis about a subject the class is studying. > 3) At the conclusion of a unit, have students share what they have learned. > 4) Have weekly shout outs to recognize student achievement. > >
 * <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Wiffiti <span style="color: #333333; display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">allows you to bring this exciting technology to any student with access to text messaging for free. In short Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens anywhere on any screen and this can be a tremendously powerful educational tool.
 * Display Student's Thoughts & Ideas with Cell Phones & Wiffiti
 * Innovative Ideas for Using Cell Phones to Summarize and Take Notes
 * Innovative Ideas for Using Cell Phones for Homework and Practice
 * To Blog or to Not Blog
 * Begin Harnessing the Power of Cell Phones in Class Lessons
 * Get Going with Google Apps for Education with a New Domain

Here’s a list of things you can use a camera phone for in the classroom, in no particular order.

1. Whiteboard/Blackboard Archive Do you ever get done with a class and look at the board with regret because you have to erase everything you or your class just created? Snap a quick picture and archive that for future use. You could even post them on a class discussion board, wiki, blog, webpage or even just e-mail them to your class for review.

2. Handheld Scanner This one I take directly from the article. Remember those old spy movies, where the secret agents captured documents with a tiny secret mini-camera? Now we all have one. Believe it or not, photographing documents works. I don’t recommend stealing information, but for random paper information, notes … you can snap a picture to capture the data.

3. Reminder List Sometimes you see something that jogs your memory. Take a picture of that thing as a reminder of what you need to do.

4. Learn Student’s Names and Faces One of the biggest struggles we have as teachers is learning the names and faces of the constant rotation of students coming through our classes. Take some time at the beginning of the year to photograph the students, or even better yet, have them take pictures of each other and e-mail to you if they have that capability.

5. Security/Liability Device I hesitate adding this one in here, but we all know crazy things can happen in the classroom. Sometimes you may need to take a picture of something happening, or something that happened to protect yourself and your students.

6. Assignments Depending on the subject you teach, it may be appropriate to send the students out one day to take pictures of nature, people or other things. Try to think of ways to use the phone. Just using the phone in an assignment will help students be more excited about it. Remember, there’s nothing wrong with using technology as a motivator. It works great with these digital natives.

7. Instant Blogging This is one of my favorite options. If you are a blogger or have a class blog/website you can set up an e-mail address that you can post directly to that blog. You can give that address out to students or use it yourself. Granted, you need an internet connected phone for this, but I had to add it in. It is so awesome to be out in the middle of nowhere posting to a blog, archiving.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Beyond Classrooms <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ted A. Lysiak, the director of instructional technology for the 6,300-student Euclid, Ohio, district, recently held training on Gcast for technology-resource teachers at several elementary schools. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This winter, he said, cellphones will accompany students in grades 3 through 5 on field trips—to a concert and to an arboretum—though firmly under the control of a teacher. Students will have a list of questions; they will take turns calling in their responses and reflections to a Gcast page. <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"Ninety-five percent of cellphone activities are better done outside the classroom," noted Ms. Kolb, adding that emphasizing outside activities means that students can spend classroom time analyzing the content that has been collected or recorded, rather than fussing with technology issues. Emphasizing off-campus cellphone use also helps teachers work within the more restrictive school district rules.

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