Make sure you bring your phones kids

The other day i actually heard myself say to my students that now, because we have temporarily limited access to the lap top class sets, that they had to make sure they brought stuff to write with and on to class. Not that that in itself is a bad thing, but i actually had it in my head that pen and paper work would be the focus of our classes now. Tsk tsk. It will not be! It has its place, but why not shift focus to hand helds? Phones and iPods? Have been meaning to do that all year so now is the time to jump right on in. Initial ideas include: using mobile google maps for french revolutions history, using blue tooth messaging for debates in international politics, creating and bluetoothing video and audio replies to questions in my year 10 humanities class and maybe some mobile blogging for year 11 history. See what goes shall we? One thing to really look in to.. Getting kids to make relevant and significant connections to the outside world through their phones. Again, see what goes, shall we?

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Friending Students on Facebook

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Back Into The Swing – Again

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Uttering From My Desktop

How very cool – Utterli now has a desktop client, which means that there is a little application you can download and use to send messages to Utterli (and consequently to whereever Utterli cross posts to) without having to go the webpage. Desktop Clients are great ways of keeping in touch with lots of different sites without having to open them all the time. I use Twhirl as a desktop client for Twitter and Seesmic. (Seesmic is a video conversation site).

The only thing with this Utterli desktop client and the Twhirl one where Seesmic is concerned is that is does not seem to support video and audio posting. So when usig the desktop client I can only send text Utters. If I want to send audio or video I have to go to the website (or use my phone – which is not working with Utterli while I”m here in China). That’s ok, can’t have everything I guess!

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it’s been a while

I’m in China with 20 students until mid October. I’ve been meaning to get to Utterli again for a while, but life never works out the way you plan it! Just here now to see if I can get my Chinese mobile to work with Utterli. Fingers crossed!

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