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- 1. Developing Mobile Friendly Content Nell Eckersley October 24, 2015
- 2. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Agenda • What is Mobile Friendly Content? • What content do you want to deliver to mobile devices? • Tools Weebly PollEverywhere QR Codes 2 http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi
- 3. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi • Do you currently use cell-phones with your students? 3 Question
- 4. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 2014 Statistics As of January 2014: • 90% of American adults have a cell phone • 58% of American adults have a smartphone • 32% of American adults own an e-reader • 42% of American adults own a tablet computer 4http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/
- 6. What is Mobile Friendly Content?
- 7. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Mobile Friendly 1. Go to http://www.worlded.org/ on your mobile device 2. How does it compare with what shows on a computer screen? 3. Go to http://lacnyc.org/ 4. How does it compare with what shows on a computer screen? 7
- 9. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Access • Smart Phones • Internet Connection 9
- 14. What content do you want to deliver to mobile devices?
- 15. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Types of Content • Writing • Videos • Sound Files and Podcasts • Links • Images • Uploaded Documents • Interactive Content (Quizzes, Surveys) 15
- 16. Tools
- 17. Weebly
- 18. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 18
- 19. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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/ 19
- 20. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Our Website • Go to http://nelightful.weebly.com/ • Click on tab: Creating Mobile Friendly Content • Password: dalek 20
- 23. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Weebly Forms • Create a Contact Form • Collect Form Submissions • Edit the Contact Form Address • Add an Email Newsletter / Auto-Responder Form • How to Create a Password-Protected Website or Membership Areas easily 23
- 25. PollEverywhere
- 27. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 27http://novemberlearning.com/resources/handouts/real-time-assessment-with-poll-everywhere/
- 28. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 28
- 29. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Question Our survey: http://bit.ly/1oZOiBI 1. Text NELLE to 37607 once to join our session 2. After you receive the confirmation that you have joined our session, send a new text to 37607 with your answer 29
- 30. QR Codes
- 31. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi What are QR Codes? • Q R stands for • Invented in Japan by Toyota in 1994 to track vehicles during the manufacturing process 31
- 32. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi How Would You Get to Here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACQmiaU 6CU&list=PLJtYAMJw3i- hjdWRQ0q2dgl1P75dwfpks&index=1 32 Shortened URL http://bit.ly/1oOM8WW Customized URL http://bit.ly/maandpamath
- 33. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 33
- 35. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Choosing Apps Ask you students “How do you choose which app to download?” • Reviews • Ratings • Description • Cost 35
- 36. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 36
- 37. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Image with Narration To hear about this photo go to this link http://vimeo.com/64923339 or scan this QR Code 37 Tools used to create this: https://www.google.com/voice https://www.dropbox.com http://vimeo.com http://qrcode.kaywa.com/dashboard/ http://vocaroo.com/ voice recorder
- 38. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Steps to Using in Education 1. First consider what the learning goal is 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 38
- 39. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 39
- 40. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Make Your Own QR Code 40 • 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/
- 41. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Shortening Links 41 You can use BitLy to shorten URL’s without creating an account https://bitly.com/ 41
- 42. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 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 42
- 43. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi • Uh oh, Bitly doesn’t make QR codes anymore…. now what? 43
- 44. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi QR Codes from KAYWA 44 • http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
- 45. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Question What tool or function of using mobile in education appeals to you most? • Text your answer to 37607 or open your browser, go to PollEv.com/nelle and type you answer there 45
- 46. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi Evaluation • Please fill out the Google form at this link http://goo.gl/forms/uFa3jzkBys 46
- 47. http://slidesha.re/VkLFQi 47 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/