Fr.+Joe+Hannon

Proposal
1. Title: **Educational Use of Mobile Devices in the Religion Classroom**

2. Description: to set up a digital and educational environment conducive to student use of their cell phones or other devices for in class quizzes, surveys, and responses to religion teacher directed questions.

3. Goals:
 * 1) To make use of current Web 2.0 applications facilitating students’ use of Internet enabled devices for taking quizzes, etc.
 * 2) To clarify with the Vice Principal for Academics the appropriate guidelines and procedures that need to be followed for the successful use of cell phones for classwork
 * 3) To make use of the school’s IT person for set up of tools, interface with our classroom media set up, and use of computer lab if needed for student preparation or training
 * 4) To present the results of project implementation at the December 2013 Religion Department meeting

4. Audience Description: current Junior year religious education students at St Petersburg Catholic High School 5. Projected Timeline: Oct 2013: research available applications for accomplishing the goals of this project Nov 4 – 8: meetings with Vice Principal, IT person, trial set up of tools needed, information and sharing with Religion Department teachers Nov 12 – 15: information for students, small group trial Nov 18 – 22: use during classes with Junior Religion students

6. Technology to be utilized: Socrative Teacher and Student Clicker; Poll Everywhere

7. Projected Budget: no money needed at this point

8. Departmental or Administrator approval: meeting with Vice Principal for Academics, Religion Department, school IT person

Proposed Deadline: 22 Nov

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