Sunday, December 20, 2009

Google and Texting and other uses for cell phones in class
If you have "Google" as one of the address in your phone, you can text a question and send it to that address and get a response. Here are a bunch of other ways to use texting (including several articles). I learned recently that our school district, while banning cell phones, actually leaves it up to the principal. You might want to check out if your school is the same. That is how I got permission for just social studies teachers to use it. The link above also shows one how to use polleverywhere.com which is a way to quickly go over a few multiple choice questions, have kids text the answers and instantly see a chart for the percentage of kids who have answered what question. Finally if you go to the search engine on this site and type in "cell phones," you will find many other suggestions for usage from this summer's postings.

2 comments:

Lisa Nielsen said...

Thank you for sharing my blog post with your readers. I hope they find it helpful and perhaps leave a comment on my blog letting me know about their successes.

Lisa Nielsen, The Innovative Educator
Writing about educating innovatively at http://TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com

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