Teaching Generation Text

CELL PHONES in the Library Encourage LITERACY

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Starring Lisa Nielsen and Willyn Webb

by Lisa Nielsen

& Willyn Webb

Ideas for Educators Who Want to Embrace the Power of Cell Phones

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Why are we here?

• Share some great ideas

using only basic phones!

• Kids love their phones.
• Improve communication
• & build relationships.
• Enhance efforts with reading, writing, and listening.
• The school world match the real world.

What about the ban?

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All of the tools we are sharing today can be

used in the library or from home!

If Cell Phones are Allowed

Building Blocks for Success

1.Get your school's approval to use cell phones.

2.Secure parent/guardian/student agreeements.

3.Teach students about cell phone safety & etiquette.

4.Develop acceptable use policy.

5.Establish classroom management procedures.

6.Plan activities with students.

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For more information read Teaching Generation Text �(http://www.TeachingGenerationText.com)

Chapter 4:

The Building Blocks for Success with Cell Phones in Education

Texting

• Feedback
• gr8 job on ur test 2day
• thanks for the book review

• Reminders
• bring ur library book today
• your book is due in 2 days
• the book you requested is in
• book club today

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• Motivation
• keep researching
• i believe in you

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Group Texting

• Group texting (to whole classes & parents)
• Text a class a writing prompt to discuss (or start writing) upon arrival to class. They've already had some time to think about it!

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• Have students create a group story (as homework!)

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• Keep book club conversations going.

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• Notifications of library updates i.e. new releases, events
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Get Instant Book Reviews

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Students write short book reviews which they can submit to the librarian right from their phone.

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Librarian can select which ones to blast out to whole groups.

Group Texting

• Celly www.cel.ly.com
• Study Groups
• Clickers & Polling
• Interactive Walls
• Outreach & Feedback
• Notes
• News & Information Network

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• Groupme www.groupme.com(chat)
• Remind101 www.remind101.com

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Celly

Benefits of Celly

No exchange of numbers.

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A written record of all texts sent and received.

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Free

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Options for various size groups and needs.

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Can use it on phone or computer.

Get started with Celly

• sign up by selecting a username password
• start a cell with a unique name
• (classes, clubs, groups)

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• set up membership
• open or restricted
• curated chat, open chat, alert only
• public or private
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• have students text @cellname to 23559 to join
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Audience response...how might you use this?

Text Novel

• Cell phone novels offer short chapters full of cliffhangers, dialog, and dramatic plot twists which get students engaged in their reading.

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• Writing cell phone novels challenges students to show narration, poetry, and creativity by choosing line breaks, punctuation, white space, and rhythm.

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Text Novel

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Get started with Text Novel

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http://www.textnovel.com/

• sign up with basic information

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• start reading, commenting, and writing

35 genres, contests, and more

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• ratings

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Audience response...how might you use this?

Give Presentations a Voice & a Face

www.voki.com

• oral report done by the avatar
• gives opportunity for practice and redo
• increases motivation during revision
• sharpen writing and speaking skills
• have an outside view of their writing/speaking
• creative outlet for sharing
• fun for shy students

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Voki

Your students will love giving presentations, sharing their opinions, and using foreign languages this way!

Getting started with Voki

1. Go to www.voki.com, register with email & password

2. Select “create.”

3. Select a character.

4. Select the look, clothing, accessories

5. Add your voice by calling the number Voki provides or have Voki call your number by entering it.

6. Choose a background from the Voki library or upload your own.

7. Click “publish” to e-mail to a friend or get a code to take your Voki avatar anywhere.

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Phone Casting

Ways teachers & students are http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/12/ten-ideas-for-educating-innovatively.html

iPadio: 866-605-0336

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• Daily messages on class website or blog
• Radio show type book talks
• Oral reports and discussions

Phone Casting

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• Student Book Reviews�Students record phonecasts to provide a review of the book they've read.

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• Practice reading books aloud

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• Unit of Study Summary

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Audience response..how could you use this?

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ipadio

Getting started with ipadio

1. Go to www.ipadio.com and sign up for a free account with your username, e-mail, & password.

2. Once you register you will be assigned a pin number that shows up on your account information page that you can use when calling into the 1-800 number.

3. Once you call in and enter your pin you can record a message that will post instantly to your ipadio account. This is live and can be listened to right on the ipadio website.

4. You can also have your “phlogs” (or phone- blogs), posted directly to most blogs.

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Polling

Ways educators & students are polling

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• Poll to vote for book talk book
• Poll to predict what will happen next
• Poll to check comprehension

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Audience question...what ways could you see using polling?

Poll Everywhere

Results at url

or QR Code http://goo.gl/xNbuB

Get Started with Poll Everywhere

1. Register using your e-mail and password and activate via your e-mail.

2. On Poll Everywhere select “create poll” then select "Multiple choice" or for open response select “free text.”

3. Type your question/and answer choices in the text box. Select “save new poll.”

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Get Started with Poll Everywhere

4. You will be taken to a screen that shows your poll question, results, & how to respond via text.

5. Participants will text 37607 and reply with either their free response or a code that corresponds to the answer selected.

6. Once the answer is submitted the results are instantly displayed. Responses can also be embedded into your selected online space (website, blog, or wiki)

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Tweeting in the Library

• Know hashtags.
• #TLChat for teacher librarians
• Other tags here http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/05/advice-from-twitter-hashtag-queen-steve.html
• Possible tweets
• 13 yr-old male luvs skateboarding. Book ideas? #TLChat
• Looking for a student(s) who is reading or luvs Catcher in the Rye to join our book club. #TLchat
• Looking for someone to Skype with our class about creating a digital footprint #TLchat
• Anyone have a resource for free eBooks? #TLchat

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Text an Expert for Research Help

• ChaCha 242242
• Try it now, text What does to be or not to be, that is the question mean?
• Share the answers in the chat

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• GoogleSMS 466453

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• Family, friends, past teachers

Keep the conversation going

Read our book...

• Teaching Generation Text �www.TeachingGenerationText.com

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Follow our blogs

• http://TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com (by Lisa Nielsen)
• http://TeachingGenerationText.blogspot.com (Book companion)

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Join our groups...

• www.Classroom20.com - Cell Phones in Education
• Facebook Teaching Generation Text https://www.facebook.com/groups/TeachingGenerationText/

Contact Us

Contact us at 

• Email: TeachingGenerationText@gmail.com
• Twitter: Lisa Nielsen @InnovativeEdu
• Twitter: Willyn Webb @WillynWebb

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Take our online class at Colorado Mesa University

• Teaching Generation Text ISED 580
• 2 semseter credit hours
• open enrollment, no out-of-state tuition
• http://www.coloradomesa.edu/online/gentext.html

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Using Flickr for Learning

Share book reviews, field trips, and projects!

• You try it - Take A Picture or Video
• Mail it to any06child@photos.flickr.com
• Picture
• Subject: Your Name
• Message: Why you are interested in cells for learning
• Video
• Subject: Your name
• Message: Not necessary

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Getting Started with Flickr

1. Set up an account on Flickr www.flickr.com to be used with school-related projects.

2. Flickr gives you an e-mail address to which you (and others) can send pictures.

3. When sending pictures to your Flickr account make sure you use a subject (photo title) and message (photo caption).

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Getting started with Flickr

4. Tell Flickr what tag should be associated with pictures sent to that e-mail by going to www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail

As you are working in different units you will update and change your tag.

Example, if you were studying poetry with grade 8 in class 403 your tag could be

poetry8403. If you were studying fiction it could be fiction8403.

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Getting started with Flickr

Using a tag allows you to instantly generate a slide show with photo titles and captions. No work required. Your tag will enable you to create a slide show with the pictures students submit that can be shared with a link to the URL as well as a code that can be embedded into any online space.

When sending pictures to your Flickr account make sure you use a subject (photo title) and message (photo caption).

Tweeting

• Tweet updates and embed on your class page on your website

Ways educators are tweeting

Tracy Karas, Marta Valle High School, New York

Tweeting in the Classroom

https://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_search

Tweeting in the Classroom

Great hashtags for global connections:

#comments4kids: Get comments on your student blogs from others around the world

#disted Distance education

#onlinelearning Online learning

#mlearning Mobile learning

#k12online K-12 online learning

#elearning elearning

Additional tags

http://goo.gl/DKciZ

Tweeting in the Classroom

Possible tweets

• educatoral Alfonso Gonzalez

6th graders looking for comments on benthic macroinvertebrates blogs point ur students our way! bit.ly/vPkwnJ #comments4kids

• pernilleripp Pernille Ripp

My students have spontaneously started to write 50 word stories on our blog - pls encourage them ow.ly/7la8B #comments4kids

• csoleil S. Stoerger

Free College: How to Audit Courses From 7 Elite Schools Online mashable.com/2011/11/11/fre… #oer #disted #edtech

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Tweeting in the Classroom

Collecting your Tweets

Twitter Fountain: http://www.twitterfountain.com

Paper.Li

Getting started with Twitter

1. set up an account at www.twitter.com with an email and password

• add your cell phone number
• may want seperate personal and class accounts

2. You can tweet from your phone by entering your number entering Twitter into your phone with this number: 40404. Don't worry that it is only five digits. Just send a text to it and it will show up in your twitterfeed.

Getting started with Twitter

3. Select a short tag (an approximately 6 six-letters -or- less searchable word or acronym) and then have your audience’s tweets include that tag

• Schools can use an acronym. For example, Barack Obama High School might be BOHS.

4. Users can contribute by simply texting on their phone and ensuring the text includes the tag.

5. You can capture the tag-specific tweets in any number of forms like a simple Twitter search for the tag by typing it into the search box on the right side of the main Twitter page.

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Wiffiti

Ways teachers & students are using wiffiti

• Brainstorming with anonymity
• Gather prior knowledge
• Share project ideas
• Every student has input in class discussions!

Wiffiti

Responses at http://wiffiti.com/screens/84533

Getting started with Wiffiti

1.Go to www.wiffiti.com Set up an account with a username, e-mail address, & password. (Students don't need to sign in. They just text their answer to the Wiffiti code you share with them.)

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2. Once signed in select "make a screen"

Give your screen a title and select “publish.”

§ You will be given a URL and special

code that users can text to contribute to

your screen.

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