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Using cell phones as voice recorders for digital storytelling

A variety of web services continue to emerge which offer voicemail to mp3 recording functionality, but drop.io is the only one of which I’m aware currently that provides a generous amount of free recording time. For teachers and students creating digital stories or interested in assessment methods which use cell phones or regular land land [...]

Learning about Immigration and Family Heritage via Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling projects can be a powerful way to help students connect not only with the historical facts and dates in the prescribed curriculum, but also connect with their own family histories in powerful ways which can make an impression which lasts a lifetime. Nancy Pratt is the district technology and instruction specialist in the [...]

Cell Phones as Audio Recorders

Presentations about the uses of cell phones to support learning both inside and outside the traditional classroom have been popular as well as contentious at educational technology conferences in the past year. I first become aware of the wide variety of constructive ways cell phones can be used to support learning through Liz Kolb’s presentation [...]