Basic Smartphone features

 

 

• Calculator

• Calendar

• Notes

• Reminders 

• Maps 

 

Student Response

 

• Mentimeter

• Poll Everywhere -- Activity: Create a text message poll

• Socrative -- Activity: Create and administer a 5 question quiz

 

QR Code

 

• i-nigma app -- Activity: Download the app and participate in a qr code activtiy

• Quickmark

• QR Stuff 

• QR Voice 

 

Digital Camera

 

• Flickr -- Activity: Use your mobile device to take 5-7 pictures of examples of Nonverbal Communication. Email your pictures to lines17found@photos.flickr.com. The subject line must have a "caption tags: nonverbal"

• YouTube 

• Mankind is No Island 

• Cell Phone Film Festival 

 

Research

 

• Ask a Librarian http://www.selu.edu/library/askref/

• Google SMS -- Activity: Text a question to 46645. Response will be returned via text message.

• Google Search 
  

 

Google Apps

 

Other Features

 

• Blogger

• Voki -- Activity: Create an avatar and record voice with your phone 

• Ipadio  -- Activity: Podcast from your phone

• Yodio  -- Activity: Create and share a yodio

 

 

Resources:

 

Liz Kolb http://cellphonesinlearning.blogspot.com/

Liz Kolb, Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Eductaion, ISTE, 2008

Liz Kolb, Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for Educators, ISTE, 2011

Kipp D. Rogers, Ph.D. Anytime, Anywhere! Mobile Learning Using Cell Phones: Activities for the Classroom, Visions Technology, 2009

Lisa Nielsen & Willyn Webb. Teaching Generation Text: Using Cell Phones to Enhance Learning, Jossey-Bass Teacher, 2011

Jarrod Robinson www.thepegeek.com