Harnessing+the+Power+of+Cell+Phones+in+Education

=**Harnessing the Power of Cell Phones in Education**= [|www.willyweb.com]

Presenter - Willyn Web

Teaching Generation Text - her book coming out this summer. There is a teaching generation texxt blog as well as a site on classroom 2.0

A 5-Step Plan

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3 ideas for using cell phones: poll everywhere, group texting, twitter

used to send mass group texts, can set it up all kinds of ways to make sure that you can enter grades in the grade book, allow annonymous texts, etc...

[|swaggle] - paid resource for group texting celly - group text for educators - free [|wetxt]- (text whole staff to send reminder updates about events/etc...) has a service where you can text your notes to an online notebook that you can categorize.

Poll everywhere to take cell phone polls

Ask [|Cha Cha] - text your question to cha cha - 242 242 - a real person answers your question. There are advertisements, but it isn't so bad.

[|Wiffiti] - text your message to wiffiti and it will appear annonymously - you can project their answers.

Students can take pictures of thier school work, teacher can take a picture of something tp send to all.

Students take pictures on a field trip and use a certain tag in the subject line - sedn to flickr when you get back to school can look at all of the photos in flickr.

Rob - text parents/ students/teachers more oftern. Let parents text in in stead of having to make a call. texting is so easy compared to using a phone.

Can build relationships through texting. Very easy to send quick messages - how is your mom? did you get the job? How are you feeling today?

Call a voki to record your presentation

[|Marzano] - coming out with a new book that shows motivation and engagement tools tied to his 9 strategies.

other resources: iPadio google voice