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What are some ways that you have used your iPhone in school? Perhaps it was to snap a photo of the notes on the whiteboard or to collect data while on a field trip. Contribute your ideas here!

[|This is a great set of directions] on creating custom flash card programs for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Audio, video, images along with text may be added to the flash cards. This application works in tadem with Google Docs spreadsheets.
 * gFlash Flash Cards**

During the [|2008 Washington DC trip] at my previous school, we had interested student who owned iPhones use the camera feature to take photos and post them to our middle school Flickr Account. The photos automatically appeared at our DC Class Trip blog so that parents and other community members could join in the trip virtually. Flickr allows you to create an email address that can be given out to students so they can post photos from their iPhones. This proved to be a wonderful way to incoroporate students into the process of collaborating on an archive of their 8th Grade Washington DC trip. Photos taken from our iPhones during the trip may be [|surfed online here].
 * Washington DC Trip Photo updates:**

Using a USM DC class trip Twitter account, students and teachers posted short trip updates from their phones (not necessarily iPhones) that appeared both on the twitter account page and on the trip blog. Here is a sampling of the kinds of Twitter updates that the students posted: // "at the national zoo watching the giant panda bears...they are so cool!," "Going to arlington national cemitary," " We are touring the vietnam," "lincoln and korean memorials over the next hou," " Waking up is eeevvviiilll" // We only had 2 students posting to the Twitter account, but the students really enjoyed participating and the parents enjoyed the regular updates.
 * Washington DC Trip Twitter updates:**