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Assignment #4
Expected time to complete: 30-60 minutes

Read through pages 111 - 167 or browse the blog "From Toys to Tools." When you find a project that you feel you can adapt, then go to the wiki to briefly describe how you might adapt this project to your audience. Feel free to substitute use of a tablet or iPad instead of a cell phone.

Carolina Helsel I like the idea of having students use their smart phones. You could have 5th graders use their smart phone to interview family and friends on a topic. They could take a short video of them answering a key question, or they could text the question and share the response. An example of a question could be: "How do you see God in your daily life?" The activity could be given as homework and shared the next week. You could have the class brainstorm interview questions and have the students take turns interviewing every week, like choosing 2-3 students a week to do the activity.
 * ~ YOUR NAME ||~  ||~ YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ||
 * Example:Susan ||  || Twitter (pages 116-117). There are several ideas here that could be used with my RCIA candidates. I'll need to give this some thought. I'm wondering if after our class gathering, when the candidates are home, if they would "Tweet" a message to our group (using a hashtag) with a comment about what was most important to them in the session. Or, perhaps what they may still have a question about or ???. As I said, I need to give this some thought. ||
 * Colleen Murray ||  || I really like the idea of the Scavenger Hunt with the QR codes. I had created a traditional scavenger hunt using biblical clues to locations and "who am I" clue cards for the saint at each location. I would like to try converting this to use with mobile devices. http://www.classtools.net/QR/ ||
 * Jonathan Sansgaard ||  || Wow, my head is spinning a bit. I have two tools that I would like to use. I join Colleen in spirit, but probably using SCVNGR as my tool because it looks like such an easy process to formulate a hunt for Confirmation or youth group. I could see using this as a fun way to get to know places in the church. I have also sent youth and chaperones with a mock story to find services in the community for those in need. This would make that exercise much more trackable, and give the opportunity for groups to share with one another. I am also really interested in a text message service that will send out mass texts, but then reply only to the original sender. I get complaints from some when I send a message to 20 numbers, and then they reply to all. ||