Communicating and Sharing with our 21 st Century Students

Workshop Links 1. Navigate to nscougars.com 2. Select either “high school” or “middle school” from the drop down menu 3. Teacher Pages 4. McAllister 5. Click the link on the left for “Act 80 Day” 6. Links are listed

Teen Text Stats  A ‘typical’ teen sends and receives about 100 text messages a day.  The feature is so important to them that if texting were no longer an option 47% of teens say their social life would end or be worsened  Teens carry cell phones to have access to friends, family and current events.  Teens say texting has advantages over talking because it offers more options, including multitasking, speed, the option to avoid verbal communication, and because it is fun.

Today’s Tech Tools  EduBlogs  DropBox  FakeBook  Celly  iPhoneTextGenerator  PollEverywhere.com  Wordle

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EduBlogs Features:  Create a class and keep total control over student posts and comments.  Monitor and moderate all content  Forums and threaded discussions  Wikis, ePortfolios, and more Ways to use Edublogs:  Facilitate fantastic discussions  Replace your paper newsletter  Get your students blogging  Post videos, podcasts and documents  Create a class publication

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DropBox Choose a Price Plan:  Free!  2gb of space + ability to “buy” more Supported Devices:  Mac & PC  Android & iOS Device Apps  iPad  iPhone  Blackberry  Kindle Fire

DropBox Interface

DropBox Features Dropbox offers easy ways to share files or folders. Shared folders are ideal for groups of people who work on the same files together. When you create a shared folder and add other people to it, its files will appear in their Dropbox just as they do in yours. Any member of the folder can add, delete, or edit files within that folder. If two people both open and edit a file in a shared folder at the same time, Dropbox will save both of their changes, but in separate files. It does not try to automatically combine or merge changes. Share a folder from the Dropbox website Enter the addresses of the people you want to invite.

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FakeBook

 FakeBook is an online format provide by ClassTools.net to create a personalized FaceBook-style profile.  Create imaginary profile pages for educational purposes.  Has many FaceBook features… profile pictures, about section, friends, posts, likes, etc.  Video:  Sample page:  Password: furelise

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Celly A cell is a mobile social network that works with any mobile phone or device. Members can join instantly with one text and exchange group messages, polls, reminders, and web alerts.

What makes Celly unique?  Celly creates networks where existing social networks don’t work.  Celly provides the quickest way to form a group that everyone can join. Participants can organize into cells of unlimited size by texting a single message.  In schools, students and teachers can communicate freely with Celly while keeping phone numbers private. Group messages can be moderated by one or more curators to keep conversations on-topic and friendly.

Advantages of Celly  Works directly with your message app on your phone – create as a contact to save for future use.  iOS, Android, and web interfaces.  Login from Twitter and Facebook

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iPhone Text Generator erator.com/ Create realistic iPhone iMessage chat windows and save as pictures. WORD OF CAUTION: Use at your discretion. I would use this as a teacher showing a picture in class. I’m not sure that I would let students create their own.

iPhone Text Generator Examples…

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PollEverywhere.com m/ There are four ways to vote: 1. Sending a SMS text message, 2. Using a smartphone's web browser, 3. Sending a "tweet" on Twitter, 4. A computer via the web.

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Wordle Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Wordle Examples (graphinc shows frequent word usage with larger sized text)

Wordle Examples (graphic shows equal word usage with same size texts)

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