iFake Text Message
Tech Tool Talk
iFake Text Message
iFake Text Message is a tech tool where you can create a fake text conversation and a fake iMessage. This tool is useful because it provides some relevancy to the students because most of them have iPhones. iFake Text Message allows students to be creative because they get to use modern vernacular to better understand a complex lesson. The tool can come in handy if you are trying to asses how well your students are picking up on the lesson that you are teaching. iFake Text Message allows you to create conversations with blue, green, and white text bubbles, set the battery percentage, the signal connection, and adjust things in the settings of a phone.
How to use this in your classroom
1. If you are reading a novel or a book as a class, allow the students to use this to create conversations with the characters of the book
2. While studying history, the students can use this to create conversations between two historical figures.
3. If you are studying the body systems in your class, your students can create a conversations between two different body parts.
THIS IS WHAT IFAKE TEXT MESSAGE LOOKS LIKE
Text Message and Battery
The first section is where you make the conversation. Also,you can set the battery level, show the percent, and show the battery.
Connection
In this section you can set the signal strength, the network (Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, etc.), show the connection type, and you can even turn on airplane mode.
Settings
In this section, you adjust the time, have the "phone" to show the bluetooth, alarm, lock, and do not disturb. You can also set it to blackout the name. You can also adjust what is shown in the message area and what the send button is.
Here are some videos demonstrating and giving an example on how to use iFake Text Message
iFake Text Message Screencast
iFake Text Message Demo (Wordless Wonders Webinar content)
Student Example
The student below created a text conversation between Romeo and Juliet while reading the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. The conversation takes place the morning after the party in modern terms. This student got creative and put the network as Verona, the setting of the play.