Get Google Voice!! The Power is Voodoo

Google Voice is free with GAFE. Basically, it gives you a phone number (you have choices) that you connect to your cell phone (or not). The tool can be used many ways and below I will share the way I most recently utilized this instructional tool.

Google Voice:

1. Allows you to have a voicemail through google that compiles messages from the cell number you have assigned. 
2. The voicemails are sent as emails to your email and are transcribed. Each voicemail allows you to reply to that number with feedback or another question. 
3. This is a tech tool that reduces your take home 'stuff' to your phone or chromebook or iPad. 

Lets start with an example learning experience:

I wanted a different way to collect formative assessment to a learning activity completed in class. We learned about GMOs in the food system and critically investigated both sides based on peer reviewed science. 

I projected my google number on the screen and told students that the homework was to leave me a voicemail with their response to this question:

"Should GMOs be removed from the food system? Warrant your claim."

One student example:

 

TWO WAY COMMUNICATION!!!

After the student leaves a voicemail I can listen to it, read it and RESPOND! My response goes directly to their phone as a text... and they can text back!?! Below is a screenshot of my quick response to a student and her response back... 

Enjoy this tool and if you are ready to be EMPOWERED with it... I will be Hall Hawking!