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Smartphone Photography Tips and Apps

The CoolCatTeacher

Smartphones are everywhere. Teachers are starting to use smartphones for photography, video and art. Meri Walker, the iPhone Art Girl, gives us the essential smartphone photography tips and smartphone photography apps that we need. Essential Questions: Smartphone Photography Tips and Apps. Our students have them.

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Smartphones in the classroom: friend or foe?

Neo LMS

But with today’s smartphones, can this still be the case? In the pre-smartphone era, when traditional mobile phones – or “dumb phones”, how I like to call them – ruled the world, students simply couldn’t use their phones for learning. Smartphones and the AIDA approach. Plus, you probably won’t succeed 100%.

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A Simple Teacher Habit Tracker

The CoolCatTeacher

For each class, I have three things I have to do each day: lesson plans in Chalk , Google classroom assignments updated, and then I have to go back and grade the work for the day. The smartphone provided a new technique to banish these slivers of solitude: the quick glance. The Quick Glance Can Be Powerful.

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Two Apps for Scanning Documents with your Smartphone

Educational Technology Guy

Here are two apps that you can use for document scanning on your Smartphone, and they are both free. Google Drive (Android) - most people don''t even know that Google Drive has a scanning feature. That way, I only need my smartphone to access materials. Follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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Building a Video Reflection Journal in Google Sites

EdTechTeacher

Flipgrid can be accessed from almost any device including computers, iPads, Chromebooks, and smartphones. They could be curated into a Google Site to create a Video Reflection Journal. To learn more about the HOW or embedding Flipgrid videos into a Google Site, check out the video walk-through below.

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CamScanner - great app to scan paper docs using smartphone camera

Educational Technology Guy

You can then share the file to cloud services like Dropbox, Google Docs , Evernote , and more. This app turns your smartphone into a scanner and document processor. Google Play Store Apple App Store. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. You can add tags to the files too, and search text in the scanned picture. Give it a try.

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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

But how do you do that if you aren’t a ‘techie’ or a ‘geek’, if you barely use a Smartphone much less the myriad of online tools. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar. Write them in Word or Google Docs. There are many–try Google Translate. Here are a bunch of options.