Hello Everyone,
Do you enjoy scanning the QR codes that just keep randomly popping out in grocery stores and restaurants? Has a colleague mentioned using QR codes in an activity with students, and you’re hesitant to ask how he or she made them?
Today’s “tech tidbit” gives you simple steps to making a QR code!
Follow the instructions of the help sheet (available here)!
Hello Everyone,
Would you like to have students access a YouTube video that is grade-level appropriate and enhances your lesson or unit content yet are afraid of what little eyes might see as vulgar comments or bizarre suggested sidebar videos?
No longer do we have to fear YouTube as an educationally inappropriate resource when we know it contains or we upload appropriate, valuable videos.
The answer lies in making full-screen links to the videos we want to share with students so there is no way they can see the comments or suggested sidebar videos.
How do we accomplish this? Take a look at the “Make a YouTube Full-Screen Link” help sheet I uploaded in Google Drive: http://tinyurl.com/readlearngrowtechtibits.
Hello Everyone,
For one of my graduate classes this semester, I have been focused on service-learning, especially viable opportunities for elementary students to learn as they serve others.
As my final project for the course, I have created a “Book Buddies Service-Learning Project” planned for fifth grade students and kindergarten students to be “reading buddies for about a month. Each pair (or group) will choose a picture book for the fifth grader(s) to read aloud as a vodcast. Kindergarteners will listen to the vodcasts and write “My favorite book is ____ because…” opinion pieces, which they will read to their buddies on video. Fifth graders will journal throughout the project, and QR codes will be created by them to affix to book copies in the kindergarten classroom library and the library media center, so the vodcasts can be played while any user has the books and a QR scanning application, such as i-nigma, on a mobile device.
Check out the plan by vising my Google Drive folder.
Hello Everyone,
Do you visit educator or personal blogs and long for those cool Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest buttons that come with pro accounts which make it so easy to network a blogger on other platforms?
Ta-da! I have found a way to make my own social media buttons while staying with my free Edublogs account.
On Flickr, I found free social media button images, which the uploader has graciously made available for personal use without demanding attribution; the Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube images I used can be at this link. I used my own personal cropped screenshot of the Google Drive image.
To learn how to create image links in Edublogs, please check out the “Use Images to Make Social Media Buttons” PDF help sheet I uploaded to Google Drive by visiting this link or clicking on the Google Drive image in the sidebar.
I hope this technological tidbit was helpful!
Hello Everyone,
I recently reviewed three iPad applications on DigtheLibrary.com, a blog dedicated to P – 12 resources for the digital age, and wanted to share them with you. To see my original post about Google Drive, please click here.
Summary: This application offers the same storage enjoyed by users on computers. Google Drive functions only with an active Google account. Files uploaded or saved to Google Drive are accessible across Android and Apple devices. Folders and sub-folders can be created to aid in file organization. Fifteen gigabytes of storage is completely free to all Google users and is shared with the individual Gmail and Google+ Photos accounts of the users. Additional storage for Google Drive can be purchased if desired.
Contents:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Hyperlinks that highlight the best features of the resource:
“Get started with the Drive app for iPhone and iPad” https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2497973?hl=en
Overall Rating: 4/5
I hope this review is of benefit.
Hello Everyone,
Today’s technological tidbit is in the form of a printable help sheet; never fear, there are still step-by-step instructions and pictures.
A classmate in one of my graduate classes had a question about collecting and filtering Discussion Board posts by author in Blackboard, so I made this help sheet to explain the process. If it is useful, please feel free to share it with others. The PDF document can be access at: http://tinyurl.com/collectandfilter.
Hello Everyone,
While working on graduate school homework for my master’s in library media education (LME), I stumbled upon a fantastic list of resources on how to empower learners in twenty-first century library media centers. I uploaded the PDF file to GoogleDrive; here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/empowerlearnersinlmc.
I hope the collection I found is of benefit. By the way, there is an excellent training module by Google for Education on how to use Google in the classroom. Possible Spring Break personal professional development?
Hello Everyone,
Just a quick note to say that the Google Drive account linked to the email address for Read + Learn = Grow! is now operational and has all of the content detailed on the “Lesson Resources” page.
You can access the Google Drive content by clicking on the words “this link” towards the top of the “Lesson Resources” page or you can visit: http://tinyurl.com/googledrive4blog.
Just a quick note to say that I have shared a Google Drive folder with you that contains all of the materials mentioned on the “Lesson Resources” page.
I hope these materials are of benefit to you. As always, modify them to meet the needs of the students in your classroom.
Please stop by often, as I continue to describe more materials on the “Lesson Resources” page that are available in the Google Drive folder.
Upcoming: I will be sharing a post about the benefits of using Classroom Sign Language!