Tag: sms

  • Backup iPhone SMS Messages on a Mac

    I’m helping a friend who needs to backup text messages and other data from a family member’s iPhone, so I’ve been doing research to figure out the best and most inexpensive way to create these backups. While the Messages app on a Mac or iPad can keep copies of many text messages sent by and…

  • Block Text Messages / SMS Spam and Phone Calls on Your iPhone

    This is a guest blog post by Sherman Nicodemus.  My teenage daughter recently started receiving annoying text messages on her iPhone from another student at her school. This isn’t a case of bullying: Apparently this particular student likes to send “group SMS messages” like some folks send spam email. In this post I’ll describe how…

  • Understanding the value of social media use for literacy development

    Students in my “Technology 4 Teachers” class watched and reflected on the EduTopia Digital Generation Youth Profile video for Cameron last week. I wrote the following as a comment on one of my student’s blogs:  My favorite quotation from your post was, “If more students like Cameron could find a way to use their technology as…