World History
Wikitude is a free app that does a lot of cool things such as tell you where you can get food of your choice nearby, see if friends are near and more. But while I love using smartphone for positive gain in the classroom, one thing it can also do is see where Tweets are being made (and what is said on them). You just hold up the phone and you will see where the Tweets are coming from. You can also set the distance from a few feet up to one-half mile away. Since kids love using Twitter, it will be a good way to control it in class and use the phone positively. Thanks to my fellow online teacher, John Downes, for the tip.
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I am thinking about having my religions class participate in a live blog next semester and maybe tweeting about religious issues using a hash tag I create for the class. Here are the reflections of a graduate school teacher who had his kids use Twitter...
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- Tweeting World History
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World History
Wikitude and Discovering Tweets in Class
- Using Social Media In The Classroom
I am thinking about having my religions class participate in a live blog next semester and maybe tweeting about religious issues using a hash tag I create for the class. Here are the reflections of a graduate school teacher who had his kids use Twitter...
- Setting Up Your Twitter Account
Introduction to Twitter for Educators Last week I introduced my "teacher students" to Twitter by asking what it was. The first answer was that it lets people know what you are doing during the day. While that is an excellent answer for a...
- Tweeting World History
Most kids now know about Twitter as they like to use it to communicate with their friends. Well one of the teachers in my department is using that fact to her advantage. She found out about FakeTweetBuilder which allows the kids to create...
- Make Multiple Calls At Once In G-mail
If you are like me, you have noticed that more and more parents have long distance phone numbers you need to calls to talk about your students. For that reason I use gmail's free phone call service a lot. While I am not sure why you would...
- Use Gmail To Make Free Long Distance Calls
If you are like me then you are having to call many long distance numbers just to reach parents who, like their kids, are increasingly keeping their old phone numbers when they move. My school district gives us a long code we can use for long distance...