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We cover many of these apps (and why you should know about them) in our latest issue of the Edudemic Magazine. It’s all about the technology needed for when you head back to school. Check it out here! The following is a cross-post from our content partners at Online Colleges

 

Mobile phones managed to mostly kick their classroom stigma once the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and other PDA-cellular hybrids (also known as “smartphones,” but you knew that already) popped onto the scene.

 

Thanks to the veritable Library of Alexandria of apps available on the respective markets, life can run that much smoother for professionals of all types. And that, of course, includes teachers.

 

Read more:

http://edudemic.com/2012/08/50-smartphone-apps/

 

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Ed tech expert Meg Ormiston shares some easy to use strategies to use cell phones in the classrooms.

 

Regardless of your school’s cell phone policy, the reality in most schools is that students have phones in their pockets, purses, or hoodies. Why not get these tools out in plain sight and use them for good and not evil?

 

Here are some easy to use strategies to use cell phones in the classrooms.

 

Read more, very interesting...:

http://www.teachhub.com/how-use-cell-phones-learning-tools

 

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