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Tweet Andrea Hernandez, known as edtechworkshop in the blogger- and Twittersphere has written a thought provoking blogpost about Where’s The Authentic Audience? She takes a closer look at the buzz word circulating among blogging educators and classrooms and asks tough questions. What happens when there is no audience coming to …
Tweet I invite few guest bloggers to share posts on Langwitches. This makes it especially rewarding to be able to present to my readers an incredible young lady. Zoe is growing by leaps and bounds as a blog writer and commenter. She is a fourth grader at the Martin J. …
Tweet The following is a collaborative guest post by Michael Fisher and Jeanne Tribuzzi , of the Curriculum 21 Faculty. The companion LIVEBINDER OF INTERACTIVE TOOLS IS HERE. Expecting students to read deeply and draw meaningful conclusions is at the heart of the Common Core ELA standards. Students are asked …
Professional Development
Tweet Our 4th and 5th grade students(9-10 year olds) have been working with Mike Fisher, co-author of Upgrading your Curriculum and author of children’s poems. The goal of their collaboration is to create an eBook of Mike’s poems with students’ illustrations. Once produced, students will work on marketing, advertising and …
Tweet During last year’s edJEWcon conference (a Teaching & Learning Institute for Jewish Educators, which I help organize with Andrea Hernandez and Jon Mitzmacher), we invited our Middle School students to attend our keynote session with Heidi Hayes Jacobs. We all watched magic happen, when students (without being asked) created …
Tweet You have all been there… Professional Development days at your school… Administration usually choose a topic, design the activities and/or bring in a speaker. Most likely, they will be slides with bullet points…listening…turn to your partners…learning about a new initiative your school will take part in…etc. As more and …
Hi Silvia,
My company, tokkers, makes pre-printed audio QR Code stickers that are great for classroom use. You can record the audio on our web site or with a phone call. I’d be happy to offer your readers a half-off promo code if you’re interested.
Thanks!
— Steve
After reading your first post about QR codes, I was excited to try them out. It proved a bit challenging to jump through some of our network hurdles, but in the end I worked with our art teacher to create an interactive art and technology exhibit. Our 5th grade students created sculptures of a person they admire and then wrote and recorded a paragraph about them. I turned those audio files into QR codes using http://www.unitaglive.com which was a neat site because it allowed color and we could upload our school logo into the QR code. We printed out the codes and invited the parents to the exhibition. They were really excited to use their smart phones to scan the codes and hear the students’ voices. Thanks for sharing! It was inspiring!
Hi, this is now my second post for EDM 310. I never knew too much about QR codes, and I definitely didn’t know that they were this easy to create. I have seen these codes everywhere, and I’m glad to know they, like most other technology, can be easily incorporated into the classroom.
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@gyll001 Have a look at these two links for more ideas http://t.co/Q69YVVzX and http://t.co/i0bAGcJr