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A very useful QR code generator for Mobile Learning (mlearning)

Published October 28, 2011 Essential question , Learn , MLD , MLearning , Mobile learning , Poster , QR , QR code , smartphones , website 1 Comment
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I  use   Create QR code     as my QR code generator for my classes for several reasons:

I can

1) Put in a variety of information such as text and links.  I can embed an essential questions along with links for thinking about the question.

2) Put in many  links/urls.   I often have 5 or more links  in one QR code so that students have a range of choices or a range of resources. (Yes, I’ve shortened the URL.)  This QR code generator creates  a book with many pages while many other QR generators create a book with one page.

3) Select  the size of the QR code.   Sometimes I have manually resized a QR code and that code could not be read.  Students  create a “poster”  demonstrating their answer to an essential question. This poster can be a regular size sheet of paper  with many labeled  small QR codes.

Link to Tuttle’s Formative Assessment books

Converting Long URLS (website addresses) to short Ones Via Tinyurl

Published February 20, 2008 21st Century Skills , technology , technology integration , Web , Web 2.0 , website 3 Comments
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In my classroom, I have an LCD device but I cannot send out websites to the students. (Emailing website URLs is a chore.) They have to copy theURL  and then enter them. Whenever I give them a long URL they often make mistakes in copying it.  The solution is the tinyurl site which takes a long URL and converts it a very short URL. For example, http://www.authenticeducation.org/bigideas/article.lasso?artId=63&-session=Auth:8D95D4D40533c2028AMsFEF5FFBB

becomes http://tinyurl.com/35m6xn.

Converting to a tiny URL works great for twitter or written material.

Try it and you  be amazed at how it makes it easier for your students!

Making learning about writing interactive

Published January 5, 2008 Academic , Accountability , assessment for learning , Interactive , Learn , learning , Paragraph , website , write , Writing Leave a Comment
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A colleague gave me access to a writing site. I was impressed that the site had a student’s written example for each paragraph pattern. Different sentences were in different colors  for topic sentence, example, and detail.  More importantly, when I moused over each sentence, the computer  identified each as topic sentence, example, and detail.  The website visually presents the information in an exciting way both with color and the interactive nature of the mousing. I felt that my students could easily learn how to the critical parts of each pattern through this website.

What website do you use to make your subject area learning interactive? Does it focus exclusively on the students’ learning

Using iGoogle

Published November 22, 2007 Browser , iGoogle , Web , website 6 Comments

iGoogle

I’ve tried using many browser pages as my home page/starting page for when my browser opens.  They have been disappointing in their inflexibility.  iGoogle is very flexible and has a multitude of gadgets that you can use.

You can click on the “Add stuff” on the upper right side of the screen.  I would suggest that instead of scrolling through all the possible  gadgets, you do a search for your favorite topic such as calendar, maps, clock, etc. – see the upper right side.  Once you find something you want, you click on Add it now. When you go back to iGoogle home, you’ll see it in the upper left. You can click on the top bar of any  gadget to move it around- drag and drop. I’ve added a to-do list, calendar, timer, gmail (to mention a few) so that I can use this as my portal.  If you try out a gadget and it does not help you to be more efficient or productive, you can click on the X to remove it.  You can even add a theme to the top of your page. There are so many gadgets available that you can truly use iGoogle as your starting page.

If find any great educational gadgets, share them.

Blog vs Webpages in Education

Published May 19, 2007 blog , Blogging , Teacher , technology , technology integration , website 1 Comment

Webpages vs blogs

Recently I had to create a website but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that a blog would do the same thing. I created the whole blog in a fraction of the time that it would have taken me to design a website. I used the website mentality of one topic per blog entry (webpage) and then linked all the entries (four pages) to the front menu page. I put in numerous images per page. Because I used a professional blog template, the blog looks good.

I would suggest that educators do not think about creating webpages but that for 99.999999% of the time, a blog will be easier to create and update.

Do you have blogs or websites? Why?

© Harry Grover Tuttle, 2007

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Digital Camera and the Classroom Websites: Visual Learning Irony

Published August 28, 2006 digital camera , FL , Foreign Language , Modern Language , student learning , Visual Literacy , website Leave a Comment

I have been preparing a presentation on using the digital camera to improve student learning in the various subject areas. I found tons of websites about the topic such as http://www.glenbard.net/Glenbard_North/pages/library/2005/services/audio-visual/help/digicam-sites.html

Most of them described a multitude ways in which teachers could use digital cameras.

However, I find it highly ironical that when a website tells about how teachers and students can use a digital camera in the classroom, it does not show actual photographs. If a website is emphasizing visual learning, then the website should use visuals! This seems to be the same as describing the Mona Lisa instead of showing her in an Art class. Imagine if a math teacher could not show students what a square or triangle looked like!

 

Students can be engaged in learning through digital cameras. Their abstract learning becomes very real when they have to demonstrate their learning. Students already know how to use cameras and probably the only thing for them to learn is how to reduce the memory size to make their PowerPoints or webpages

The following photograph taken in Tijana, Mexico can serve as

  • a writing prompt for descriptive writing for ELA students

  • a writing prompt for comparison writing (the man and the statue) for ELA students

  • an analysis picture for Social Studies students of the Mexican culture

  • a speaking prompt for Spanish students.

 

Mexican musican and statue

 

 

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