http://tiny.cc/maculcell
1:1 program at Liz's school ran out of funding: sustainability is huge!
Announcing her picture on the fly contest from yesterday's session - Using Google Forms for voting! Winner is Pic of texting while driving "technology don't"
- moving letters scrambled. Text in a word you could make.
- Tied to a billboard in NY Times Sqaure
- Works from the website as well
- Global answers being posted in real time
- students could do a keyword business campaign
- create keyword cards for scavenger hunts
- text kithard to 50500 for mine
- no student login needed
- create visual picture boards (make a collaborative digital story)
http://ipadio.com
- Allows for cross posting to blogs and wikis without having to embed! (Very cool)
- I (Kit) started using this after gcast.com went to premium model
- Useful in Language classes
- Create a local # for calling
- Only associates with a real phone # once you set it up
- Set up groups and give custom greetings (post assignments, have students respond to a question or prompt)
- FREE calls to Canada!
- Read your voice mail messages, listen to them on the web or your phone
- Have students call the number, then associate their name and assign to a group
- You can receive and send texts for FREE! (Can only send group messages to 5 at a time)
- You can record phone calls (document and archive a parent phone call) It will announce to both parties that the call is being recorded
- Record an interview
- Google Voice Video tutorials http://www.youtube.com/googlevoice
- pre-built scavenger hunts for some museums or public places
- build your own
- create geo-located virtual tours, games, interactive experiences
- uses keyword texts
- School Orientations (Oohs and aahs from the crowd)
- Set time constraints on length of games
- Send out time warnings (5 minutes before field trip ends)
- Stagger starts
- Works with text messaging, web interface, and smart phones
- You can embed clues and hints
- allows random or linear clue delivery
- Video feature is on the way
- you can assign grades or points to submissions
- Uses qrcodes or 2d barcodes
- Only about 60% of current phones have the ability to read qrcodes
- Link homework help, weblinks, contact info, using the qrcode posted on website or printed (student pulls out phone and takes picture of code rather than getting a handout)
- Paste in your class syllabus, student takes pic, they can read it on their phone
- Math teacher using qrcodes on all assignments
- make an avatar on the website and then narrate from a phone
- having an account allows you to edit or save recordings
- uses a 1-800 number
- Create an historical character for history class
- Generate a podcast for any website url and a corresponding phone # for students to call
- Use when internet access is unavailable
