Skip to main content

Home/ EdCeptional/ Group items tagged texting

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
anonymous

ClassPager - 0 views

www.classpager.com

pager pagers text message messages classroom communication parents texting cellphones classpager sms mobile

shared by anonymous on 08 Dec 11 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 08 Dec 11
     
    Easy Classroom Polling For Teachers and Students
J B

More schools piloting secure mobile devices | Mobile and Handheld Technologies | eSchoo... - 1 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...piloting-secure-mobile-devices

EdCeptional09 news mlearning

shared by J B on 15 May 11 - No Cached
  • A company that manufacturers secure personal cell phones for children is making a move to education, where it has introduced secure, internet-enabled mobile handheld devices for classroom use. School teachers or administrators can program the devices to allow (or disallow) calling or texting during certain times of the day, making them ideal for educational use, the company says
  • “There is recognition that we can leverage capabilities and technologies … by providing mobile learning devices for students with controls for schools,”
  • Data from Project Tomorrow’s 2010 Speak Up Survey indicate that 67 percent of parents support their child using mobile devices in the classroom for school work, although 65 percent of school administrators in the same survey strongly objected to letting students use their own mobile devices in school.
J B

Voice Brief - 0 views

www.voicebriefweb.com/...Home.html

EdCeptional02 iOS text-to-speech

shared by J B on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • J B on 03 Apr 11
     
    Voice Brief collects the data as you want, and reads it though with state-of-art voice synthesizer.
Patrick Black

SpeEdChange: A 'Universal' VoiceThread? Not quite. And, Google and Prezi - 0 views

speedchange.blogspot.com/...voicethread-not-quite-and.html

EdCeptional08 tools web2.0 voicethread accessibility

shared by Patrick Black on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • VoiceThread has failed to work with any kind of screen reader, leaving those with sight issues, and reading issues, disconnected... from totally to partially
  • VoiceThread Universal lets full-scale screen readers, software like JAWS and ORCA, read the text comments left on a VoiceThread and allow navigation. The navigation allows you to add comments as well, and that's great. But as the developers point out, the current system won't help you with, "creating and adding content to VoiceThreads," won't allow searches, doesn't allow phone integration, though they say all these things are being "worked on."
  • A bigger issue for me is that neither VoiceThread nor VoiceThread Universal works with the kind of "light" screen readers used by those with dyslexia.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • So, is it OK for us to use these tools in schools? I am conflicted. I tend to think "yes" assuming that we always - automatically - provide alternative access capability which is, essentially, equal. After all, we still use those inaccessible books in our rooms, we still let teachers write, in handwriting no less, on the "board." But I'm bothered by it because use may tend to remove the pressure on these organizations to move toward accessibility. These companies want access to our students, should we offer that if they don't really want access to all of our kids?
1 - 10 of 10
Showing 20▼ items per page