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3voteI've compiled my exhaustive list of the tools I use most often in my classroom and in my life. These are my own and not endorsed by TechLearning or anyone else! If you use something else, share it!
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6voteEmbrace wireless technology in the classroom. If you don't have the budget to buy expensive polling hardware, Poll Everywhere is a great, cheap tool to add a new dimension to your lessons. Ask a poll question, have your students or participants text their answer using their cell phones. Then watch an instant graph compile, tallying your votes. Encourages participation
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1voteIn a spring/summer 2006 evaluation of the educational effectiveness of cell phone video streaming technology, parents reported an increase in their children's knowledge of the alphabet, and in their own initiation of literacy-related activities with their children, suggesting a promising new tool to increase early literacy skills. The evaluation was designed to assess the level of acceptance of cell phones as a medium for delivering educational content to parents of preschool children and to assess any effects and differences between participants living in households at or below the poverty line and those living above the poverty line. The PBS KIDS Ready To Learn Cell Phone Study: Learning Letters with Elmo found the video content and delivery pairing made the most impact among those participating households at or below the poverty level, compared with those living above the poverty line.
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1voteMobiode is a simple and flexible solution for mobile surveys and polls, which can be used to collect data from users via their mobile phones.You create survey in your web browser and participants to the survey respond using their mobile phones.All results are visible through our web interface in real time or in the Excel. (Download pdf presentation.) Start creating you first mobile survey right now for FREE.
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2voteIf you check out Mac’s ‘Introducing the iPhone‘ webage you will see that it is a typical smart phone with e-mail, calendar, SMS, photo, music, and internet support. That in itself isn’t too exciting. Most smart phones come with that now a days. What people are really raging about is the interface, but I mostly just chalk that up to eye-candy. What can the iPhone REALLY do for educators? Here are three features that I believe will impact education.
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1voteMobile social networking is hot. The new Drift phone from Helio comes with a feature called Buddy Beacon that lets you see your location on a map that pops up onscreen, thanks to the global positioning system (GPS) chip built into the phone.
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