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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 [...]

Ask students to submit an assignment on their cell phone

Cell phones can be used in powerful ways by students and teachers as assessment tools. Most teachers are familiar and comfortable asking students to submit written work to assess their learning, but are likely much less experienced asking students to submit multimedia files as assignments. This needs to change. As teachers, we need to invite [...]

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 [...]