Teaching with Technology http://tcoffey.edublogs.org Tina Coffey Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:45:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 QR Craze http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2012/01/18/qr-craze/ http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2012/01/18/qr-craze/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:45:24 +0000 Tina Coffey http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2011/08/04/ You’ve seen them, right?  On the corners of mailings, on the windows of businesses, maybe even on the tags of things you buy.  You may have even used them…used your phone to scan one and get coupons or reviews for a business or more info on a product.  But did you know they are being used like crazy in classrooms?

Here’s one of my favorite videos about the use of QR codes in the classroom.

And here’s one based more for elementary school:

So basically to use QR codes, you need the following things:

  • QR Code Generator (usually a website that will easily make the code for you)
  • A device with a camera to read it(iPod touch, iPad, cell phone, or computer with webcam)
  • QR Code Reader (which you download to the device with a camera

Want to create a QR code?  It’s easy…your students can even do this!

Here’s a few QR Code generators:

Here a few QR Code Readers:

And here are some cool links to use them:

And here are some ideas for using QR Codes in the classroom:

 

 

 

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http://instantchan.com/

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In this project, they wrote step by step directions on storyboards, took pictures with digital camearas, and used photostory to record and create digital stories with step by step directions

.Sockworm Taking Pictures Recording

Take a look a few examples below, and check out all their stories on Mrs. Devlin’s Class wiki!

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]]> http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2011/03/04/2nd-grade-animal-powerpoints/feed/ 2 Glogging About Authors http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2011/03/03/glogging-about-authors/ http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/2011/03/03/glogging-about-authors/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:29:19 +0000 Tina Coffey http://tcoffey.edublogs.org/?p=988 Fourth Graders in Mrs. Corbett’s class created interactive posters about famous authors!  They used a service called Glogster Edu to create these posters!  Here are a few examples of their work.  You can see them all on the class wiki .

 

It’s amazing how engaged the kids were while working in Glogster!  Here is a video shot from the work session.

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