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The more time we spend on our phones, the more text messaging seems like a natural artistic medium, a modern outgrowth of the epistolary novel. You can see it in the fake text messageweb fiction genre, in games like Sarah is Missing… and in the silly quasi-interactive thriller that a smartphone writing app has somehow seduced me into creating….
I struggled with this, jumping through hoops with the Notes app until I found out that I can scan directly to Google Drive with the Files app. Android users can gloat to their iPhone brethren since the Google Drive app on Android can scan directly. These directions will work with any cloud storage service, as…
Go Pollock is a web based tool to gather feedback from students. The teacher creates a set of questions for a quiz. When the class is ready, the teacher starts the session and can monitor the students as they go through the questions at their own pace. Go Pollock could be used as an exit or…
This week it’s all about the teachers hacking their own learning. 1. Blogging (13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning) Using blogging to share, publicize, and reflect. 2. Use Twitter (13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning) Teachers can use Twitter to collaborate, publicize, and reflect. 3. Participate in a Twitter chat (13 Ways Teachers…