Engage Your Students: There Is An App For That!

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Gerald Logan

President of Educational Technology Council of the ATA. One of the hosting organizations.

Principal of Hillside Community School

Resume includes working as a district and provincial consultant.

Why Mobile Technology?Students have the technology

It is motivating

We have moved from Digital Natives to Digital Nomads

Why Mobile Technology?Schools are developing an app-titude for

harnessing students’ enthusiasm for mobile technology

There are risks and concerns in the BYOD environment.

ResourcesThe Wiki Site

http://engageyourstudents.wikispaces.com/Destination+Innovation

The Blog site http://dimlearning.blogspot.ca

Scenario OneI used this scenario to open an article on

mLearning published in 2010.

http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20Magazine/Volume-91/Number-1/Pages/Mobile-Technologies-in-the-Classroom.aspx

It is a field trip in the mountains and students are using their handhelds to do a variety of activities.

Scenario OneThree high school students are making their way along a rocky ridge, surveying plant and animal life as they go. One student snaps a photo of a flowering plant, geotags it and sends it to the group blog. His partner records a high-definition video of a spider preparing its web and uploads it to YouTube. The third student is typing notes on a wiki.

Lets do it?

Field Trip1.  Text by email. http://bit.ly/OiFMht

Try this.

Write some text to describe this local species in an email and send it to glogan.banff@blogger.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banff_Springs_snail

Field Trip2.  Photos http://bit.ly/RKwgVk

Try This

Take a photo and send it to glogan.banff@blogger.com

Don’t recognize a species try Google Googles or Snap Leaf to identify it (well maybe in the future, US only now)

Field Trip3.  Video. http://bit.ly/MRsJy2

You can shoot video and email it to the site.

This can be field video with the shooter doing voice over or it can be produced video.

Try this: shoot some video and email it to glogan.banff@blogger.com.

Field Trip4.  Annotated video from Sonic Pics http://bit.ly/OckTBX

Sonic Pics allows you to select photos from your camera roll or your device camera to put together a series of still pictures. You then record the voice over and save this as a movie. This can be stored on the device or emailed to the blog.

Try This:

Take three pictures

Select them in Sonic Pics

Record the voice over

Email it to glogan.banff@blogger.com

Field Trip5. Maps and locations from Google Map

http://bit.ly/TuFJhO

Try This:

Load Google Maps on your device.

Find a location here in Banff.

Then use the i to pull up the share option. Email it to glogan.banff@blogger.com

Field TripMass text systems are used by large organizations, but there are some that are free for teachers.

http://bit.ly/OcleV7

Try This:

To register text (424) 400-5094 with @glogan as the message.

CollaborationThere are many apps that are designed for

collaboration.

CollaborationTypewithme.

http://typewith.me/p/banff

Try This: go to the link and enter some text for some of the categories. The number of users is limited and performance slows with each additional user.

CollaborationShowme

Tiger Lily Sample http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=NFcNkRs

CollaborationEdistorm A brainstorming app that uses the concept of sticky notes.

Try This

http://www.edistorm.com/storms/sort/17035/Banff_Endangered_Species

QR CodesThey can take your students to a website.

Tim Horton’s use a QR Code for their applications

Send an email to you. Interesting take on a Scavenger Hunt

Read a message to you. (even in a different language)

Map location

Use a variety of readers and scanners

i-Nigma

NEOreader

QRReader

Resourceshttp://qrstuff.com

http://qrvoice.net

http://www.2learn.ca/web2/QRT.aspx

Contact Meglogan@me.com