Smart Phones and Tablets in the classroom. Do they have a place? What can we do with them?
Flipped Classrooms:
Flipped Classrooms are alternative style learning environments based around either project based learning or experiential learning in which the student watches or learns the material on their own. The class portions of these learning environments are then focused on time with the facilitator, completing the work and asking questions that may occur to eliminate downtime and solve problems as they occur. Sometimes this can backfire when students have no time or drive to view the content before the follow-up class, and mostly works in high-level highschool or Post-Secondary environments.
Polleverywhere.com
Polleverywhere.com is a quick and easy way of doing classroom polls, allowing for the use of online website replies or mobile device text message answers.
Remind101:
Remind101 is an App that allows teachers to safely send out class-wide text messages to remind students about assignments, apply changes to assignments, or share interesting content. It’s one way and works via opt-in, so disallows many of the abuses of conventional mailing lists or mass text messages.
Wordref:
Wordref is a translation and dictionary app and website that helpfully translates many languages both to and from other languages. Both a website and a smartphone app are available.
QR Island:
QR Island can convert links to QR codes and help manipulate QR codes in a variety of ways in order to help integrate them into the classroom. This is only one example of the numerous free QR codes that exist out on the web, and most of them fulfill the same niches.
Scanner Pro:
Scanner Pro is an App that allows you to take pictures and convert them into .PDF documents for easy sending, receiving, and reading. Can be time consuming, especially when doing larger documents or sets of pages, but is a lifesaver when easy scanning isn’t available.
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