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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.


 * ~ 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. ||

Maria Lai, CSJ - p.136, Toys to Tools "To help notivate students, the teach could have prizes for students who solve the "Who Am I?" mystery. I would like to have each student each week taking turn to find a mystery character from the Gospel of Luke. Using TextForFree student will make up five hints (five sentences) and will text to their classmates on the day before class. Classmates are invited to text back for an answer but we won's give out the answer until we all arrive to class. That will be the first thing we announce the answer and the winner. This may encourage students to come on time despite of the learning fun!

Teresa Burns - Toys to Tools Website (Without having the book, I hope I'm doing this assignment correctly.) I looked at the Periodic Table Ringtones Lesson and began thinking how it might be able to be used with Books of the Bible. (I actually have a Bible Periodic Table with the abbreviations of the books of the Bible in a periodic table format - pretty cool.) Students as individuals or groups could be assigned a Book of the Bible. The students use the introduction to the book for a study Bible (Catholic Youth Bible, Catholic Study Bible, Breakthrough Bible) noting its author, when it was written, the audience to whom the author was writing, and other historical and literary details. They would then write a jingle describing the book. They can use mobile ringtones as background music for their jingles. They can share their jingles, using their mobile devices with their classmates. The website assignment suggests using Drop.io for students to send their jingles to their cell phones as ringtones. I'd have to look into that more. If Drop.io doesn't work out, though, we could do an upload process to the parish website, similar to a podcast recording.

Ivy Foo

'Summarizing by Text" Suggesting to the 4th and 5th grade PSR teachers to ask their students to text him/her to summarize in less than 140 words what they had learned and use that summary as recap before they start another chapter every week.This way, teachers can also gauge if the lesson was understood and if the students had any ideas they would like to share. This recap could also help those who were absent.