What do you use your SmartPhone for?

Most people’s use of a smartphone is often quoted as less the 20% of its capabilities. In schools we ban there use for all the right reasons and miss a potential tool to help SEN pupils. So my question is what do you use your mobile phone for? Here are my uses on a daily basis in order of use:-
Mail

Calender

Notes

Phone

Texting 

Notice the phone is my last use. Not the first! With Notes I can copy and paste from the internet and make notes of all kinds using text, audio and images. But I do use apps as well. So just looking at what I usually use and this is my top 5 apps I use all the time and the reason why I use them:-

Google Maps – great at not only directions but times of journeys  which now with SIri gives me traffic updates

BMI tracker – tracks whether I have a healthy weight!

Dropbox – as I find this is the best tool to transfer photos and video when I need to pass them onto people

EasyJet – booked a flight in easy steps and even my boarding pass for an upcoming flight

Apple Wallet – recently used and new to me because I need to store my boarding passes for use at the airport

Reminder – I store useful information like – well important stuff I want to keep near me.
So what is your use then? Let me know I’d be interested 

Great Google Drive Add-ons for Teachers – An Updated Handout

https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/free-technology-for-teachers-1315757/great-google-drive-add-ons-for-teachers-an-5222451411

Create Location-based Reminders in Google Keep Notes

https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/free-technology-for-teachers-1315757/create-location-based-reminders-in-google-5222665171

Voice Dream

Voice dream(£10.99) is an app for iOS that is a powerful and very dyslexic friendly ebook reader. It has quaility TTS voices and the facility to import from Word, PDF into a reader that highlights in a number of ways. It also lets you put in Dyslexic friendly fonts as well. You can choose how many lines to view.

Dyslexia teachers using technology to he

Dyslexia teachers using technology to help kids love reading http://ow.ly/b2G6505ItVI

AMiDUOS 

This is an Android virtual machine for the PC . It comes with some preloaded apps from Amazon but if you download an add on for Google play you can download from there . Take a look and try it for free for 30 days but at around £14 it’s very affordable!  http://www.amiduos.com/

New Peripherals for the iPad from Inclusive Technology

Inclusive Technology are at the fore front of ICT and SEN and therefore worth noting any new development they mention. Now your iPad can control electrical appliances using the updated iClick. Also the Skoog can also be operated via an iPad. Just another example of making the iPad a tool for inclusion in the learning environment! Please click on the link below for more information:-

Inclusive’s iClick and Skoog

A Nice Way to Share Bundles of Links With Your Students

https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/free-technology-for-teachers-1315757/a-nice-way-to-share-bundles-links-with-your-5194122915

ASDetect: App Helps Detect Early Signs Of Autism

https://www.bloglovin.com/blogs/assistive-technology-blog-9539073/asdetect-app-helps-detect-early-signs-autism-5195007671

thinglink & VR

I love it when combining two technologies to make a truly fascinating result. This is an idea and I confess I haven’t tried it yet! I will and get back to you when I have tested it. Using VR headsets like Google Cardboard are now cheap and being sold at all sorts of outlets now from garages to cheap stores you can use your smartphone to access content that is immersive and interactive. A perfect marriage would be using thinklink and a VR headset. For an example of how this might look click below. Sorry the links and sounds  are in french!

https://www.thinglink.com/mediacard/830447778135015425

Let you know when I have tried it out. Feel there may be some steps to take to make it VR friendly.