Using+Cell+Phones+in+Your+Classroom

toc =Using Cell Phones in Your Classroom= Presenter: Jimbo Lamb Contact: Send a new text message with MISTERLAMB in the message field to 50500. This service works through contxts.com.

=Description of Presentation= We all know most students carry cell phones with them. In this session, you will learn how to utilize these tools productively both in and outside of your classroom. Most of the tools shown can be used by students who do no have cell phones by using either a land-line or computer with web access.

=Presentation Resources=

Liz Kolb, Leader in Cell Phones in Education
Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education Research: http://cellphonesinlearning.wikispaces.com/necc2008 Blog: @http://www.cellphonesinlearning.com/ Delicious: @http://delicious.com/elikeren/Cell

Intro
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Ban vs. Educate
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Responses Through Texting
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 * wiffiti - Send texts to be displayed on a website
 * Science wiffiti - Question: What is an amoeba? Text @wif9742 + your message to 87884
 * Social Studies wiffiti - Question: What happens in this building? Text @wif10236 + your message to 87884
 * Math wiffiti - Problem: Give an ordered pair that satisfies the inequality //y// < 3//x// - 7. Text @wif13573 + your message to 87884
 * Language wiffiti - Give an example of an action verb. Text @wif13626 + your message to 87884
 * Poll Everywhere
 * Vote via texting, web (poll4.com), or twitter (reply @poll and code)
 * Sample Science polls:
 * Noble gases (multiple choice)
 * Plant cells (free text)
 * Sample Social Studies polls:
 * Bill of Rights (multiple choice) Web voting
 * Civil War (free text) Web response
 * Sample Math polls:
 * Find x (multiple choice) Web voting
 * Characteristics of a rhombus (free text) Web response
 * Sample Language polls:
 * Characteristics of Poetry (multiple choice) Web voting
 * Favorite Literary Character (free text) Web response
 * Education pricing

Organizing Through Texting

 * contxts - Create an online business card
 * Sample: Send MISTERLAMB to 50500
 * Textmarks - Create keywords to organize groups for texting; students subscribe themselves
 * Sample: Send MISTERLAMB to 41411
 * tXtBlaster - Create groups (including subgroups) to organize and communicate through texting
 * tXtBlaster how to
 * Sample tXtBlast: Send MISTERLAMB to BLAST (25278)

Mobile Reporting
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 * flickr - Upload photos from a camera phone through email
 * Test: Take a photo, send to air12figure@photos.flickr.com (Cell phone or computer)
 * My photostream (connected to the above email address)
 * Mail-to-Blogger - Email photos directly to your blog using Blogger
 * Yodio - Record using a phone (cell or land line), add photos online to create fully digital story
 * Test out: Call 1-800-958-5212; email photos to misterlamb@upload.yodio.com
 * Classroom Example: Quadratics in the Real World
 * Elementary Example: A Little Riddle Tree Walk
 * PhoneCasting - Another site that allows for recording for free by phone
 * **Gcast - Record from phone (for a fee)** NO LONGER ACTIVE
 * Gabcast - Record from phone (for a fee)

=Text for Answer=
 * Google SMS- Get quick info on the go, just text a query to 466453 (GOOGLE), using shorthand codes. Text "help" for more info
 * [|ChaCha] - Text a question to 242242 or call 1-800-224-2242
 * [|Thumbsavers]
 * DOTGO - Use texting to explore content from a website
 * How it works
 * DOTGO Simulator