It’s In Their Pockets Slide 1 ___________________________________ Its In Their Pockets! ___________________________________ Utilizing Mobile Technologies for Learning ___________________________________ Karen S. McPherson Business, Marketing, Information Technology, Career Development Camden County High School 2013 Kenan Fellow Microsoft Office Specialist – Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access 2010 NBPTS Candidate ___________________________________ 1 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 2 ___________________________________ Presentation Overview Mobile Devices – smart phones, eReaders, iPods, iPad Forms of Electronic Communication – chat rooms, email, podcasting etc. Social Media – Twitter Formative Assessment Websites Grant Resources ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 3 ___________________________________ Advantages Another option to engage the digital student Technology opens up doors that might be locked to a variety of other teaching methods For example, content focused podcasts offer an opportunity for review, enrichment and research Learning styles ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 4 ___________________________________ Student Outcomes Practice teamwork and cooperation and a sense of responsibility to both in a technology rich environment Learn or enhance public speaking, presentation, journalism and 21st century communication skills See the relevance to their learning experiences by sharing what they have learned Listen to or watch teacher provided content at their own speed, when and where they need it ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 5 ___________________________________ Mobile Devices Laptops Smart phones eReaders iPod, iPad Flip Camcorder ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 6 ___________________________________ Electronic Communication Text messaging Discussion Boards Email Blog Chatting Podcasting QR Codes ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 7 ___________________________________ Text Messaging Sending short text messages to a device such as a cell phone or pager Used for messages that are no longer than a few hundred characters Google Voice www.polleverywhere.com ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 7 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 8 ___________________________________ Discussion Boards or Forums ___________________________________ An online bulletin board where users can receive feedback from posted messages Bell ringers, warm up activity Engrade, ___________________________________ Blackboard, Moodle ___________________________________ 8 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 9 ___________________________________ E-mail ___________________________________ The electronic exchange of messages and computer files between computers that are connected to the Internet or some other computer network. 24/7 communication Documentation ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 9 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 10 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Web logs or blogs are web-based journals. Blogger – the author of the blog Self ___________________________________ reflections ___________________________________ 10 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 11 ___________________________________ Chat ___________________________________ Talking in real-time to other network users from all parts of the world. What are the pros and cons of chatting? What are the examples of different chat programs? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 11 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 12 ___________________________________ Podcasting ___________________________________ ___________________________________ iTunes store has over 10,000 podcasts specific for education. ___________________________________ 12 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 13 ___________________________________ Podcasting A method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription, usually at no cost. Used largely for audio files. Can be downloaded and played on iPod or iPhone Podcasting does not require a media player. You can listen to a podcast straight from a web browser. Bell ringer activity ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 13 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 14 NC joins iTunes U ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 15 ___________________________________ QR Codes QR Reader for the Computer QR Generator Free Apps ___________________________________ http://dansl.net/qrreader/ http://www.qrstuff.com/ QRReader ScanLife ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 16 ___________________________________ Social Media - Twitter Professional Learning Community Follow mentors, politicians, current events and other educators Share interesting websites Daily learning ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ 50 Ways to Use Twitter in the College Classroom - 6/8/09 - Onlinecolleges.net ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 17 ___________________________________ Formative Assessment Resources Microsoft Mouse Mischief Google forms Tagxedo.com Quizlet.com VoiceThread Screen cast-o-matic Wordle.net www.voki.com Animoto Glogster ShowMe Video Voice Memo App ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 18 ___________________________________ Grant Resources Education Foundation (local) Bright Ideas Adopt a Classroom Burroughs Welcome ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement It’s In Their Pockets Slide 19 ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Any questions? ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Slide 20 ___________________________________ Thank you for coming! ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Sesame Street There’s An App for That! ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Karen McPherson Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement