The Importance Of Texting Story In High School

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Now moving onto eleventh grade history class, some students love history and some hate it but, one thing all high school students love is texting. This next idea takes phones, which are glued to almost every student’s hand, and turns them into something more beneficial to learning. Texting Story is an app that is used to create fake text messages between people and it creates a video of the texts being typed. These can be created by anyone who has the app, which is free. An activity using this app would be ideal for high school because they are all more likely to have Smartphone’s so you don’t have to worry about using any school provided technology. Teachers in other grade levels and subjects could also use the app to teach. Using texting

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