Did anyone learn anything at NECC 2009 about using these devices in the classroom?

[SMeech]

Did anyone learn anything at NECC 2009 about using these devices in the classroom?

[Lori Sheldon]

Leslie Fisher had an excellent presentation on some productivity tools, battery saving tips, and places to search for apps. Her handout is here under iphone support group: http://lesliefisher.com/handouts/handouts.html

Tony Vincent's itouch presentation focused on educational apps! Here are his notes:
http://learninginhand.com/notes/necc/index.html

I am in the process of building a wikipage on the different apps, sorted by subject area and will share when finished.

[Helen Crompton]

Loved the session at the WWII Memorial with McNeal, T., and van't Hooft, M. They as part of the SIG ML looked at scanlife. Loved it, got app(free), and the t-shirt.
I can see that I will be using this with students of all ages for all different subjects.

[SMeech]

Can you tell us a little bit more Helen about what they did with lifescan? Also ... what happened at World War II memorial?

Helen Crompton said:

Loved the session at the WWII Memorial with McNeal, T., and van't Hooft, M. They as part of the SIG ML looked at scanlife. Loved it, got app(free), and the t-shirt.
I can see that I will be using this with students of all ages for all different subjects.

[Helen Crompton]

I have been asked to explain more about the NECC WWII session. For the session we had to have phone with internet connection. The session began with a quick history of the WWII memorial the design and some opposition incountered towards the memorial. As a quick overview we were then given a leaflet that told us to go to certain parts of the memorial, when we reached those parts we looked at our leaflet, read the short information there, then used the program Scanlife on our phones to scan the code for that section in our leaflets. The code took us to a web page or a sound file etc. giving us more details about that part of the monument.
While we were doing this there were a group of students being lectured to by a tour guide and they were more interested in what we were doing with the phones.
We have iTouches in school and I could download the app, they could then connect to the local wifi. I could use this to send the students off on a tour in the classroom getting them to work through problems on many subjects. If they went on a tour to the museum I could plan beforehand, they could find the artifacts and after scanning they could find out further information, or even listen to me as I tell them that they need to pay particular attention to.
I could go on forever with tasks I can set with this tool. Even young children could use this tool and it could connect to sound files.

[SMeech]

Can I post this as a blog entry on iear.org? Thanks Helen for telling us about this learning experience. What a fantastic way to authentically talk about the power of these devices.

Helen Crompton said:

I have been asked to explain more about the NECC WWII session. For the session we had to have phone with internet connection. The session began with a quick history of the WWII memorial the design and some opposition incountered towards the memorial. As a quick overview we were then given a leaflet that told us to go to certain parts of the memorial, when we reached those parts we looked at our leaflet, read the short information there, then used the program Scanlife on our phones to scan the code for that section in our leaflets. The code took us to a web page or a sound file etc. giving us more details about that part of the monument.
While we were doing this there were a group of students being lectured to by a tour guide and they were more interested in what we were doing with the phones.
We have iTouches in school and I could download the app, they could then connect to the local wifi. I could use this to send the students off on a tour in the classroom getting them to work through problems on many subjects. If they went on a tour to the museum I could plan beforehand, they could find the artifacts and after scanning they could find out further information, or even listen to me as I tell them that they need to pay particular attention to.
I could go on forever with tasks I can set with this tool. Even young children could use this tool and it could connect to sound files.

[Mark van 't Hooft]

Hi Helen,
Thanks for posting this!!! Interesting observation. I saw the group there, and the kids didn't look too interested in the memorial..... maybe we should have given them some mobiles ;)

Helen Crompton said:

I have been asked to explain more about the NECC WWII session. For the session we had to have phone with internet connection. The session began with a quick history of the WWII memorial the design and some opposition incountered towards the memorial. As a quick overview we were then given a leaflet that told us to go to certain parts of the memorial, when we reached those parts we looked at our leaflet, read the short information there, then used the program Scanlife on our phones to scan the code for that section in our leaflets. The code took us to a web page or a sound file etc. giving us more details about that part of the monument.
While we were doing this there were a group of students being lectured to by a tour guide and they were more interested in what we were doing with the phones.
We have iTouches in school and I could download the app, they could then connect to the local wifi. I could use this to send the students off on a tour in the classroom getting them to work through problems on many subjects. If they went on a tour to the museum I could plan beforehand, they could find the artifacts and after scanning they could find out further information, or even listen to me as I tell them that they need to pay particular attention to.
I could go on forever with tasks I can set with this tool. Even young children could use this tool and it could connect to sound files.

[Helen Crompton]

Please post my comments wherever you need to. Sorry for taking a while to respond, I am currently visiting my home and family in the UK.

[Linda Cobb]

Thanks so much for the information. I can't wait to show it with to peers. What a great way to share information!

Lori Sheldon said:

Leslie Fisher had an excellent presentation on some productivity tools, battery saving tips, and places to search for apps. Her handout is here under iphone support group: http://lesliefisher.com/handouts/handouts.html

Tony Vincent's itouch presentation focused on educational apps! Here are his notes:
http://learninginhand.com/notes/necc/index.html

I am in the process of building a wikipage on the different apps, sorted by subject area and will share when finished.

[Katherine Burdick]

Helen, What specifically was the iTouch app you used?

Helen Crompton said:

I have been asked to explain more about the NECC WWII session. For the session we had to have phone with internet connection. The session began with a quick history of the WWII memorial the design and some opposition incountered towards the memorial. As a quick overview we were then given a leaflet that told us to go to certain parts of the memorial, when we reached those parts we looked at our leaflet, read the short information there, then used the program Scanlife on our phones to scan the code for that section in our leaflets. The code took us to a web page or a sound file etc. giving us more details about that part of the monument.
While we were doing this there were a group of students being lectured to by a tour guide and they were more interested in what we were doing with the phones.
We have iTouches in school and I could download the app, they could then connect to the local wifi. I could use this to send the students off on a tour in the classroom getting them to work through problems on many subjects. If they went on a tour to the museum I could plan beforehand, they could find the artifacts and after scanning they could find out further information, or even listen to me as I tell them that they need to pay particular attention to.
I could go on forever with tasks I can set with this tool. Even young children could use this tool and it could connect to sound files.