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- 1. Edgy Tech Tools & Tips For Today’s Librarians Presenter: Jessica Bailey
- 2. Presentation Description What does it mean to be a librarian on the edge? Embracing technology is key, and this presentation is designed to introduce four easy tech tools that you can use in today’s high schools, no matter your skill level. We’ll cover QR Codes, augmented reality through Aurasma, Piktochart, and 3-D design program Tinkercad. QR Codes Aurasma Piktochart Tinkercad
- 3. QR Codes • Curriculum Connections • Book trailers or Book Talks • Interactive Bulletin Boards • Links to info., videos, Google Docs • Apps that scan both QR Codes & Barcodes include: • QR Scanner • QR Reader for iPhone • Qrbot • Bakodo • Free websites for creating QR Codes: • http://www.qr-code-generator.com • http://www.qrstuff.com • https://www.the-qrcode-generator.com Try me! Hold your phone up to the screen to scan! • What I like about this tool: • Free • Easy to upload URL, change colors, etc. • Things to consider: • Relies on wireless internet connection
- 4. Aurasma • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvYinZdZGkg • Curriculum Connections • Science SOLs • Interactive book covers • Bring historical figures to life! • Download the app to your smart phone • Visit www.aurasma.com • View hundreds of examples, or create your own! • What I like about this tool: • Free • Easy to upload videos/images • Things to consider: • System freezes occasionally • May have to keep refreshing app • Back to the Future
- 5. Piktochart • Curriculum Connections: • Creative writing assignments • Comparison charts • Display graphs for research findings • Visit www.piktochart.com • What I like about this tool: • Free • Easy to upload videos/images • Lots of free template options • Things to consider: • Have to pay to upgrade/use all templates
- 7. Tinkercad • Designs for 3-D Printers • Curriculum Connections: • Create bookmarks or displays • Math measurements put to good use • Creating symbols • Visit www.tinkercad.com • What I like about this tool: • Free • Several shape generators provided • Things to consider: • Takes some time to master • Must change measurements to inches • Only simple shapes provided • Must save as .stl file (some computers may need to download software to do this)
- 9. Questions? • PPT is available on my blog via Slideshare: http://theb00kishblonde.blogspot.com • Email me for link: jbail003@odu.edu
- 10. Hagustin. (1 Jan. 2013). Augmented Human Skull [Wikimedia Commons]. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:App_iSkull,_an_augmented_human_skull.jpg. Quote images. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.hippoquotes.com/technology-quotes-for-education. Yuval Y. (18 May 2009). Julius Caesar Wall Painting in Acre, Israel [Flickr]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/yuval_y/3508358142. References
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- 30 seconds: Hello everyone! I’m Jessica Bailey. For the past eleven years I have taught high school English and Journalism, but I am currently a graduate student in ODU’s Master’s of Education in Library Science Program, and today I want to share with you four awesome tech tools that will hopefully change the way you look at teaching the SOLs. These four tools we're going to look at today include QR Codes, Aurasma, Piktochart, and Tinkercad.
- QR Codes: 8 mins. The first tool I’d like to share with you is one you’ve probably seen before, but never knew how to use or make one of your own. (**Indicate example on slide**) These are called QR Codes, or Quick Response Codes, and good news! They are super easy to make and use. Simply download any QR Code app to your phone or tablet, hold the phone up to the QR Code, and the app will do the rest. I’ve downloaded the app called “QR Scanner” to my phone and iPad, and I’ll show you in just a second how easy it is to use. In fact, go into your App store on your phone right now and try to download one of these while I'm going over some ways we can use these codes! Okay, while we're waiting, how do we use QR Codes in the classroom? Think about the English SOLs. English SOL 9.1 requires that students “Make planned oral presentations independently and in small groups,” while for English SOL 9.2 students are asked to “Produce, analyze, and evaluate auditory, visual, and written media messages.” Now, you could have students draw a poster or write a paper and share that with the class, or you could get a lot more creative. QR Codes are an excellent way of covering both SOLs in a fun, fast, and technology-driven manner. For example, as part of their novel project, students can create a book trailer for their chosen novel, or record themselves doing a book talk to encourage their classmates to read their favorite novel, and upload these videos to YouTube (just keep the settings set to private). Next, have your students visit one of the dozens of free QR Code generator sites to create their own code and link to their YouTube video. Students can print these codes out and post them in the classroom. Their classmates can scan these codes to watch their friends’ videos. Perhaps teachers could even have students vote on their favorites after viewing their classmates’ videos. To show you what this would look like, here’s an example of a QR Code link (**indicate code on slide**) to a book trailer for a book I’ve recently read, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (which is also about to hit theaters as a movie!). After downloading a QR code app to your phone or iPad, simply scan the code to be taken directly to the YouTube video. (**I will demonstrate using my iPad and play the 2-min. trailer with the help of AirServer connected to my Macbook**). Pretty awesome, right? It literally took me less than 30 seconds to create this code and link it to this YouTube video. Another way of incorporating QR Codes in the classroom is Interactive Bulletin Boards. Instead of simply hanging products of student work (posters, written papers, etc.) use a QR code next to each example that will link to a video of those students actually working or explaining their creation, or perhaps a YouTube video that covers the topic in greater detail, or even a Google Doc connected to the assignment. Scavenger Hunts could also be a really fun way of engaging students. Have your students scan QR codes on the bulletin board that link them to quiz questions. First one to get all questions answered correctly wins! You could even post these codes around the school (cafeteria, locker bays, even bathrooms!) for students to search for throughout the day. Lastly, QR codes can be used as links to contact info for teachers on Parent/Teacher Conference Night, or library information (hours of operation, fees, upcoming events). They can also be linked to forms used to vote or make suggestions for the librarians or perhaps to join the Book Club. I think that posting QR codes around the community (local grocery store, gas stations, Walgreens) would be a great way to show the public all the great things your students are doing and to share student work with the community! I’ve posted a few links to popular QR Code apps and generator websites, but a simple Google Search will show you tons of other options, as well. If you have the app downloaded, try holding your phone up to the screen and see if the video pops up! I'm going to click on the link for the first website listed here (*click link*) and you can see just how easy it is to create your own QR code. Just put in your linked URL, and a unique code is created instantly.
- Aurasma: 10 mins. Okay, how many of you have a Facebook news feed that has been flooded these past few weeks with people wandering around town looking for Pokemon? Me too. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, there’s an app for smart phones called Pokemon Go (**show app using my phone**). Basically, you download the app and then begin walking around with the app open on your phone. The app accesses your phone’s camera, so you are seeing everything around you in real-time. When you are near a Pokemon character, your phone will begin to vibrate and the character will appear on your camera as if it is right in front of you. All you have to do is catch him! This technology is called “augmented reality,” and it’s no longer something you only see on Star Wars. Every one of us has the ability to create our own augmented, or virtual reality today. Take the app Aurasma. I’m going to pull up a quick 3-minute video created by students at York High School to advertise their yearbook. Now, as a yearbook teacher myself I LOVE this idea, but you could also use this to advertise books or resources in the library, as well as in the classroom. Take a look at how these students use Aurasma: (**click on link and play YouTube video**). So, how can we use Aurasma in our classroom or library? I’ve placed an image on this slide of a student using an iPad to examine the human skull. If you notice, the skull on his iPad is raised to a 3-D form and the student can actually manipulate the skull to examine it and label the parts. This app could be paired to teach many of the science SOLs, such as Earth Science ES.4, which states that “the student will investigate and understand the characteristics of the Earth and the solar system.” Students could use Aurasma to actually pan around the planets in our solar system, even create their own Aurasma to narrate their explanations of the rotation of the planets. In the library, liven up your book displays by linking book covers to Aurasma and have characters and images come to life! This will get your students more excited about reading, while also giving them a better idea of what the book is about. Students could also create Aurasma’s based on pictures in their textbooks. In U.S. History, for example, students may scan an image in their text of Thomas Jefferson to find that he “comes to life” in a video uploaded by the teacher. There are lots of options and hundreds of examples available to you already on Aurasma’s app and website. Create your own, or use a pre-made Aura…the choice is up to you. Let me show you an example of a pre-made Aura on Aurasma's website. (*click on link at bottom of slide. Select "Back to the Future"*). Here's an Aura created for the film Back to the Future. When I open the Aurasma app, I can click on the purple icon at the bottom to access my device's camera. I simply hover over the image of the movie poster, and we'll see the Delorean come to life! (*play Aura*). So again, you can create your own Aura based on whatever subject you teach, or have students experiment with some of the Auras already available on Aurasma's site. Notice that while it's free and easy to upload videos/images, the system is known to freeze sometimes, and you do have to keep refreshing the app in order to see the Aura.
- Piktochart: 8 mins. Okay, so English SOL 10.6 requires students to “develop a variety of writing to persuade, interpret, analyze, and evaluate with an emphasis on exposition and analysis,” while 10.7 asks them to “self- and peer-edit writing for correct grammar, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, sentence structure, and paragraphing.” In English 10, students read The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and typically write a persuasive essay either in support of Caesar/Marc Antony or Brutus/Cassius. Well, I’ve got an example of an alternative assignment that would be a lot more fun and creative. Take a look at this newspaper based on the murder of Caesar. (**Read example for those who cannot see the screen**). I created this in just a few minutes using a website called Piktochart. Here, students and teachers can create infographics, presentations, posters, or reports. The site is FREE and provides hundreds of templates, or you can design your own. (*click link to website to show home page*). We often ask our students to draw movie posters or book covers based on works we’ve read in class. Piktochart would allow students to create professional designs or presentations quickly while gaining real-world skills they could take with them as they enter college or the work force. In Government, students could use Piktochart to display charts on both presidential candidates. After researching diseases in Biology, students could create a Piktochart demonstrate their findings in percentages, population, etc. Teachers could also use Piktochart to create a colorful, easy-to-read syllabus for each class. Here’s an example of one I created for my English 12 British Lit. course (**click to reveal picture of syllabus**). You can see I’ve included the units we will cover in the course, as well as grading percentages and my contact information. (**click again**)
- Approx. 1 min.: This next slide is a screen shot of what Piktochart looks like once you log in. Notice that most of the templates are FREE. You simply click on one you like and begin editing, or you can create your own from scratch. You can see here the options for infographics, posters, advertisements…so many options besides those boring Word documents! The only negative here is that not all of the templates are free, but a true majority of them are (certainly enough to create lots of class projects or posters for your classroom).
- Tinkercad: 5 mins. The last tool I’d like to share with you today is Tinkercad. How many of you are familiar with 3-D printers? How many of you have ever designed anything for a 3-D printer? Well, until recently, neither had I! Like many of you, it felt very intimidating…like something only architects or computer geniuses could comprehend. But, I assure you, it’s much easier than you think. Websites like Tinkercad are free to use, and user-friendly, and 3-D printers have become increasingly popular in schools and libraries. Tinkercad allows users to create designs using dozens of provided shape generators (or, if you’re really industrious, you can create your own!). There are tons of how-to videos available on YouTube. I watched one, and had a good handle on the program in a matter of minutes. Here you can see my design, a Harry Potter-themed book mark which includes a clip to attach to pages of a book. Here's what it looks like once it's actually printed (*show my printed bookmark to audience*). Students, teachers, or librarians could create their own book-themed bookmarks, or objects to sit on bookshelves, to help encourage students to read and get them excited about certain books (maybe an arrow for The Hunger Games or a trident for Percy Jackson?). You can see the Pros for Tinkercad are that it is FREE and provides you with several pre-made shapes. However, it can take some time to master, especially if you want to create more complicated shapes. The coolest thing about this program, of course, is that you get to design something real and have it printed out using a 3-D printer. Our students would get to truly create something they can keep forever. (**click for next slide**)
- 5 mins.: Here I have a screen shot of the Tinkercad design screen. You can move your object in various ways while you work on your design. On the right, you will see examples of shape generators available for use. Geometry students could use measurements to create their own geometric designs and put them to good use (like a 3-D printed picture frame, or pencil holder, perhaps?). On the World History SOL (WHI.5) students must “demonstrate knowledge of ancient Greece in terms of its impact on Western civilization by describing Greek Mythology and religion.” Working in groups, students could choose a Greek god or goddess, then create the symbol for that god or goddess using Tinkercad (a lightning bolt for Zeus, an owl for Athena). Or, they could invent their own god and symbol. The options are endless. I’m going to click on this link at the bottom of the slide, which takes me to the Classroom option on Tinkercad’s website. (*quickly scroll down page to show the options for creating a Classroom where students can log in and create/post their work*). I’m going to click on “Browse all projects” so you can see just a few of the student creations on here, including coral reefs and a ringed planet. You don't have to teach a technology class to use this program. English teachers, History teachers, Science teachers, Art teachers...every one of you can find some pretty awesome ways to use Tinkercad in your classrooms.
- 6 Mins.: To wrap things up, the combination of SOL test knowledge with technology is invaluable to our students today, and technology is rapidly changing. These four tools are hot right now, but in another five years there will certainly be new tools available. Remember, even PowerPoint was considered "cutting edge" at one point. Our job as educators is stay on top of these trends so that we can help our students be as successful as possible in the real world. Will it take time for us to learn these tools? Of course? Will it be easy? Not always. But we can't keep going against the grain. Yes, we have to prepare our students for the SOLs, but we can still do that while embracing new technologies…and we may even learn a few things from our students in the process. Allow time for questions…