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||< ==Resources Used== || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< ABE, ASE, ESL/ESOL ||< intermediate level English reading and above ||< **Short Stories** Delivery of uncopyrighted short stories in small chunks via cell phone ||< [|http://winksite.com/site/] [|site_profile.cfm?susid=30095] || [|http://www.google.com/voice] || susangaer@gmail.com ||< Santa Ana College School of Continuing Education Santa Ana, CA ||< ABE or ESL/ESOL ||< All levels of ESL/ABE ||< **Taking pictures and sending them by text message to develop writing projects** ||< [] (Your favorite clothes) Picasa ([]) Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) ([]) || [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] ||< World Education Boston, MA ||< ABE, ASE, ESL/ESOL ||< intermediate English reading and above ||< **Short Poems** Delivery of uncopyrighted short poems via cell phone: The Road Not Taken - includes brief pre-teaching of vocabulary ||< http://winksite.com/site/ site_profile.cfm?susid=30339 || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< ABE, ESL/ESOL ||< beginning, intermediate, and advanced English ||< **5 Tips for using Text Messaging to Teach ESL** source: http://www.ehow.com/how_4995209_use-text-messaging-teach-esl.html
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 * < Destiny Long ||< ABLE Distance Learning Project (TIU 11) PA ||< ABE/GED ||< high intermediate ABE and above ||< **Using text messages to contact distance learners** ||< Google Voice to send text messages to learners from computer
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1. Create your own __word-of-the-day__ service. Send your students one new word every day. Make the word meaningful, not random. Relate the words to the current lesson plan. For example, if the current lesson is about weather, send weather-related words or phrases.

2. __Text message grammar tips.__ Have your students text you back about their day using that grammar tip.

3. __Text message conversational tips__. For example, if your students work in restaurants, text message them phrases that they can use at work.

4. Have your __students text you messages using the word-for-the-day__. Texting is a good way to encourage students to begin writing.

5. Introduce text messaging casually. It is just one tool for teaching. Make it meaningful and you and your students will learn and have fun. ||<  || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< ABE or ESL/ESOL ||<  ||< **Email-to-text gateway** Phone service providers such as Verizon, ATT, and TMobile have an email-to-text gateway. As a teacher you can send short assignments or materials for distribution to your students that they will receive by text message or email. ||< Based on [] || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< ESL/ESOL ||< beginning, intermediate, advanced levels of English ||< **Using English Outside Class** To increase students' use of spoken and written English //outside// class, recruit and train a group of __Mobile phone English conversation and writing volunteers__ and match these //cellphone chat coaches// with students who want one. Each matched pair could set up the expectation of one 10-minute conversation or text message a day, or whatever works for them; however, a regular schedule is needed. ||< • A group of cellphone chat coaches who are trained (by you?) and who have copies of the "chat dialogues" the students will use • If you can connect your mobile phone to an external speaker, you can demo the first chats in your classroom. • One-page telephone dialogues, "Chat scripts" for getting started and/or for beginning level language learners. (Anyone know a good list of these already prepared and on the web?) || Marian Thacher and Steve Quann ||< See above ||< ESL/ESOL ||< All ? ||< **Ideas for Using a Cell phone Camera** ||< http://mlearninginadulted.wikispaces.com/Camera+Ideas || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< All ||< All ||< **Organize classroom or online learning for students on how to use their own mobile phones.** This may be a challenge with so many different kinds of phones, but there are features (text messaging, taking and emailing a photo, etc.) that may be common to many of them. For some students this might be highly engaging because they will learn more about their own cell phone. ||< Getting the Most from your Mobile!, a six-week course about mobile phones for literacies learners @http://www.aloscotland.com/alo/viewresource.htm?id=2099
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"The course is aimed at engaging adult literacies learners in reading and writing tasks through exploring various aspects of mobile phone technology. It is assumed that learners will develop their own learning goals through an Individual Learning Plan, that they will have access to a mobile phone, and that tutors will develop additional learning activities around the resources in this pack in line with the needs of individual learners." || carlaarena@gmail.com ||< Casa Thomas Jefferson, Brasilia, Brazil ||< EFL ||< All ||< **Using cell phones to post photos to Flickr and comment on them**. Using cell phones as answer prompts to a classroom question. Using cell phones in presentations as a survey tool. ||< iPhone Flickr || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] ||< Newsome Associates Boston, MA ||< All ||< Intermediate ||< **Survey your students** Create a student cell phone poll or survey, AKA Student Response Survey (SRS) ||< [] Free for audience of 30 or fewer. || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] || Newsome Associates Boston, MA || All || Intermediate to advanced || **Teaching how to summarize** Teach students strategies for summarizing (e.g. who, where, what), ask them to read a text and to summarize it in 1-3 text messages. Compile summaries and ask class to choose the best one(s). ||  || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] || Newsome Associates Boston, MA || All || Intermediate to advanced || A lesson in **how to buy a mobile phone** || [] || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] || Newsome Associates Boston, MA || All || Intermediate to advanced || **Cell Phone Use Survey** || [] || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] || Newsome Associates Boston, MA || All || Intermediate to advanced || //**E-tudes**// Examples of problems to SMS txt to students.
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1. __Writing E-tude__ What's wrong with the sentence below? Can you improve it? (Hint: break it up into at least two sentences.) //Beyoncé is my favorite singer and I think the recording of her was faked because every time she hits the high notes the camera jumps to a far away wide shot spotlighting the audience so that's kind of suspicious and I think the fake recording simply pitch-shifts at random//.

2. __Math E-tude__ Take six toothpicks or straws and make four equilateral triangles. (The learner text messages the answer back to the teacher.) ||  || [|djrosen123@gmail.com] (Courtesy of Eunice Snay) || Newsome Associates Boston, MA || All || All || **Broadcast Text Messaging from a Computer email account** || eHow: How to Text Message to Cell Phones from your Computer Email http://www.ehow.com/how_5140350_text-cell-phone-computer.html || Posted 7.29.11 to the The Adult Literacy Professional Development Discussion List  || OTAN ||  ||   || List of youtube video [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] || http://timac.wikispaces.com/Cell+Phones+in+the+Classroom ||
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