Cell phones in the classroom??

Yesterday during our district training I mentioned using cell phones in the classroom several times. Many people thought I was crazy but loved the idea of using them as a Classroom Response System. I found another great use for cell phones in education while reading through my tweets yesterday!! (Just another professional development opportunity found on Twitter, which was also mentioned a lot yesterday!)


Here is a blog that discusses phoning in blog responses. You can post a prompt to your students and they can respond to their own blogs or to yours just by recording a message on their phones. 
http://rsu2teachertech.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/cell-phones-in-class-voice-posting/


Don't forget you can also use Cinch for podcasting. You can use the app (Android or iPhone) for Cinch and record a message and upload the podcast to your blog, website, or wiki. You can also phone in a message straight to Cinch. All of the messages are saved on CinchCast.com. The site allows you to assign pictures to your podcasts, edit them, and upload them to Facebook, Twitter, or your blogs. 


Here is a very short and quick podcast that I created as an example for this blog post:

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We made it through our district training and hope that everyone was able to walk away with something new today! Please let us know if you have questions! We will update our websites with today's presentation.

Classroom 2.0 on Prezi

District Training

I am excited to be working with Crystal tomorrow to present Classroom 2.0 to JISD teachers. We will be touching on different Web 2.0 apps that can be used in the classroom and why we use them. This is a poll that will be used at the end of the workshop.

Try this audience polling system at Poll Everywhere

Try this audience polling system at Poll Everywhere