This document discusses creating mobile friendly content for adult education. It introduces various tools that can be used to create mobile friendly content including QR codes, Weebly for building websites, PollEverywhere for polls and surveys, and PaperLi for curating content. It provides an overview and instructions for each tool, highlighting how they can be used to deliver content to mobile devices for educational purposes.

1. Creating Mobile
Friendly Content
For Adult Education
Nell Eckersley

2. Agenda
• Introductions
• What is Mobile Friendly Content?
• What content do you want to deliver to mobile
devices?
• Tools
o QR Codes
o Weebly
o PollEverywhere
o PaperLi
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http://slidesha.re/1j1uJJa

3. LINCS
Community
3https://community.lincs.ed.gov/group/technology-and-learning

4. What is Mobile
Friendly Content?

5. Mobile Friendly
1. Go to http://lacnyc.org/ on your mobile device
2. How does it compare with what shows on a
computer screen?
3. Go to http://www.adultedcompass.org/
4. How does it compare with what shows on a
computer screen?
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6. Mobile Friendly
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http://www.adultedcompass.org/

7. Access
• Phone Data Plans
• WiFi
• MiFi
o Datajack http://www.datajack.com/
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8. EveryoneOn
8http://www.everyoneon.org/adulted

9. EveryoneOn
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10. What content do you
want to deliver to
mobile devices?

11. Types of Content
• Writing
• Videos
• Sound Files and Podcasts
• Links
• Images
• Uploaded Documents
• Interactive Content (Quizzes, Surveys)
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12. Tools

13. QR Codes

14. What are QR
Codes?
• Q R stands for
• Invented in Japan by Toyota in 1994 to track vehicles
during the manufacturing process
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15. How Would You
Get to Here?
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Shortened URL http://bit.ly/19wbpyV

16. QR Code Readers
• QR Codes can be used with a mobile device like a smart
phone or a tablet that has access to the internet
• The device must have an QR Code reader (also called
scanner) app installed
o Apple Devices: Qrafter or Scan
o Android Devices: QR Droid
NOTE: You should NOT have to pay money or give
information about yourself when selecting and installing a
QR Code reader or scanner
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17. Choosing Apps
Ask you students “How do you choose which
app to download?”
• Reviews
• Ratings
• Description
• Cost
• Permissions
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18. QR Code Readers
The QR Code reader is an
app that uses the camera
on your device to scan
the code and then uses
the internet to interpret
the instructions in the
code
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19. QR Codes in
Real Life
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20. QR Codes in
Education
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21. Image with
Narration
To hear about this photo
go to this link
http://vimeo.com/64923339
or scan this QR Code
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Tools used to create this:
https://www.google.com/voice
https://www.dropbox.com
http://vimeo.com
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/dashboard/

22. Steps to Using in
Education
1. First consider what is the learning goal
2. Make sure you have devices that can read a
QR Code
3. Make sure the content is mobile friendly
4. Create the QR Codes you need
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23. QR Codes in
Education
• QR Codes in Adult Education (video)
• Make your own QR Code Scavenger Hunt!
• Scavenger Hunt
• 5 Real Ways To Use QR Codes In Education
• Black & White and Scanned All Over (video)
• QR Codes Connect Students to Books
• Shambles QR Code Resource
• Desktop QR Code Reader
• QR Codes in Education Livebinder
• 50 QR code resources for the classroom
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24. Make Your Own
QR Code
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• Bitly (for URL’s) https://bitly.com/
• Google (for URL’s) http://goo.gl/
• Kaywa (for URL’s and contact info)
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
• ScanLife (for URL’s and contact info)
http://www.scanlife.com/en/
• ZXING (for URL’s, wifi, contact info and more)
http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

25. Shortening Links
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You can use BitLy to
shorten URL’s
without creating an
account
https://bitly.com/
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26. Make Your Own
QR Code
1. Paste the Bitly shortened
URL in the address bar
of your browser
2. Type .qr at the end of
the shortened URL
3. Hit the Enter key
4. Up will come your QR
Code
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27. • Uh oh, Bitly
doesn’t make
QR codes
anymore….
now what?
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28. QR Codes from
KAYWA
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• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

29. Weebly

30. To Create a
Weebly Website
• Go to http://www.weebly.com
• To create your account, use an email address
you can access here
• Use a password you can remember
• Have a URL name idea--your free URL will
look something like this
http://nelightful.weebly.com/
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31. Why Weebly?
• Free website creation tool
• Easy to add content
• Includes tools for most kinds of content
(writing, video, links, images)
• Automatically mobile friendly
• Elegant design options
• And did I mention…Free
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32. Weebly Interface
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33. Weebly Forms
• Create a Contact Form
• Collect Form Submissions
• Edit the Contact Form Address
• Add an Email Newsletter / Auto-Responder
Form
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34. Weebly Tutorial
• http://help.weebly.com/beginners-guide.html
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35. PollEverywhere

36. PollEverywhere
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37. PollEverywhere
in Education
• Increasing classroom participation and attentiveness
• Encouraging risk-taking with anonymous student responses
• Eliciting diverse opinions when there isn’t a correct answer
• Gauging student comprehension of material immediately
• Grabbing students with thought-provoking opening questions
• Assessing last night’s reading with a quick quiz
37http://novemberlearning.com/resources/handouts/real-time-assessment-with-poll-everywhere/

38. PollEverywhere
38http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/bMUbH4T1jVEPIXC

40. PollEverywhere
40http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/GyDlJSh13S4znG5

41. PollEverywhere
in Education
• Best of Web 2.0: Using Poll Everywhere
• QR and Poll Everywhere
• Upcycled Education: PollEverywhere
• SMS Education: Poll Everywhere Is Making
the Mobile Pop Quiz More Affordable
• Our survey http://bit.ly/1oZOiBI
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42. PaperLi

43. Paper.Li
43http://paper.li/LACNYCnell/1320940472

44. Paper.Li
• Very simple to set up
• Content from Twitter,
online newspapers and
magazines
• Set up once and PaperLi
will do the rest (or make
changes as you need)
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45. Paper.Li
• To create a PaperLi account you must have
Twitter or Facebook account
• Resources
o http://sproutsocial.com/insights/how-to-publish-paper-li/
o http://www.pinterest.com/explore/paperli/
o http://www.razorsocial.com/how-to-use-paper-li-to-share-
great-content/
o http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/10/provide
-students-with-personalized.html
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My contact info
Nell Eckerlsey
• Email: nelle@lacnyc.org
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/LACNYCnell
• LINCS Technology and Learning Group
https://community.lincs.ed.gov/
• Website: http://nelightful.weebly.com/