Great Movie on Digital Age and Change from ISTE's SIG

Mobile is the future....

2012 4T Virtual Conference Call for Proposals is OPEN!

The 4T Virtual Conference was a huge success last year and we are hoping to have an even bigger turnout this year! Last year we had over 600 teachers presenting and participating in our virtual conference. This year we have a new website up and running on the UofM School of Education server and the call for proposals is open! Please consider presenting. The audience are K-12 teachers and could benefit from your experiences with technology (no matter how small or large). The dates are May 19th through May 22nd! The format has changed a little based on the feedback from last year. We have some excellent Keynote speakers (Matt Levinson of From Fear to Facebook and Gooru Learning!). Please join us! Registration (FREE! Of course!) is open as well.

ClassPager for SMS and Polling Students!

Wow! I am really enjoying using a new resource called ClassPager. It is 100% free! It allows teachers to create class alerts with no limit on the number of students (or parents). Additionally, it is private. It also allows you to set up sms polls (they can be free text polls). There are a lot of teacher controls over student accounts and yet it does allow for anonymity. In addition it DOES NOT use shortcodes (it uses real phone numbers) so it will work with just about any cell phone (YAY for Metro PCS!). This also allows people who don't have cell phones but do have iPod iTouches to participate with Free Texting Apps (because they give you a free phone number or you could use Google Voice).

Call to Record: Easy cell phone or landline recording

I have been playing with a website called Call to Record. It is similar to Google Voice or the old Drop.io. Call to Record allows 30 minute of free recording time from any cell phone or landline. It is completely private and you can download or share your audio recording at your discretion. Unlike Google Voice where you only get about 5 minutes of recording time, you can have up to 30 minutes. It is very simple to use, just dial a number. I only wish that once you deleted a recording, you could have those minutes back in your account (unfortunately it does not work that way, you have to create a new account). I do like the privacy and ease of use (as well as the landline option!).

Planet Text!

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iVoted new Free SMS polling

I have recently been using a resource called iVoted. It is for live polling, similiar to Polleverywhere, LetsGoVote and SMSpoll. iVoted has a free package (up to 25 votes per poll with unlimited polls). The polls must be multiple choice, but they are very easy to generate. In addition one can respond to the polls via email, sms text, twitter, or the web. There are some options with voting and results.