An outline of some of the quick easy ways, technology can be used to help with teaching and lesson activities All links referred to can be quickly accessed at http://tiny.cc/S7Adam

2. Adam Blackwood
Email: A.Blackwood@kent.ac.uk
Twitter:
Individual: @Adamrsc
Organisation: @JISC_RSC_SE
www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk

4. The Teaching Technology
Palette
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam
Adam Blackwood
Email: A.Blackwood@kent.ac.uk
Twitter:
Individual: @Adamrsc
Organisation: @JISC_RSC_SE
www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk

5. RULES
Summary

7. Behaviour and Mobile
Technology

8. Rules for this lesson
• Turn Mobile Phones on silent
• Enable your Bluetooth
• Leave all mobile phones on the desk infront
of you.
• Ask permission if you want to use them for
something other than the task sessions I set
please.

9. Flash Cards
Lesson
Student
Planning
Review
Another
Tool
way ?
Break
Mobile Surveys
From Any Source
Google Docs
Animation &
- Easy & Fast - Nice Tricks

10. Do you think Mobile Technologies are
useful in the classroom?
Text a CODE to 0762 4806 527
Polleverywhere
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam13

11. Lesson Planning
- Another Way
Word Templates Mind Mapping
• Easy to edit • Easy to edit
• Easy to update • Easy to update
• Use word skills • ‘Hand’ your lesson
resources directly in the
• Can be shared easily. Mind Map…
• Standard Word Docs. • Use the Lesson Plan as the
actual method of delivering
the lesson !!
– Reduces the extra Lesson
Plan to Lesson resources
needed!!

12. A simple to use Lesson Review Tool
• Check on students progress
• Use as a starting point to view their view of
their understanding of your teaching.
• Examine the views of the whole class to
consider improvement for course schedule
plan.
• Use for anything.. You want to review.

13. The Register
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam12

14. Collaborative Surveys and Tools
• Google Docs • Examples using Google
• Examples using Spreadsheets and the
Separate PowerPoint Forms feature for
Slides creating
• http//tiny.cc/classroom
• Example of behavioursurvey1
Collaborative
PowerPoint Activity • http://tiny.cc/behaviour
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam14 surveyresults1

15. Collaborative Tools
• Mind 42 • Wallwisher
– www.mind42.com – www.wallwisher.com
Enter your ideas at… Enter your ideas at…
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam4 http://tiny.cc/S7Adam5

16. Animation
PowerPoint PhotoScape
• Create your pictures, • Open the GIF Animation
diagrams in PowerPoint. part of PhotoScape
• Use the Drawing tool bar. • Drag your Jpegs into the
• Save as… jpegs PhotoScape.
• Alter the times
• Save As a GIF File
• DONE!
– Make available to students.
Download at http://tiny.cc/photoscape
Instruction Video at http://tiny.cc/S7Adam1

17. Enhancing Handouts
• QR Codes • QR Code Generators
– A picture which can – Best QR Code Generator
contain information or – Kaywa Reader
cause a phone to do
certain actions. Eg: send
an SMS, link to a • QR Code Readers for
website, phone a your phone:
number, send a ‘Tweet’ – QRKy Scanner
etc etc. – i-nigma
• URL Shortners
– http://tiny.cc
Best QR Code Generator http://tiny.cc/S7Adam2
Kaywa QR Code Generator http://tiny.cc/S7Adam3

18. Flashcards
Flashcards for mobile devices Flashcard tools from the web
• GIF animated Flashcards for • Studystack
mobile devices and for – www.studystack.com
placing on your VLE.
• Download Flash card app
for any phone from
Video Guide http://tiny.cc/S7Adam1 StudyStack http://tiny.cc/S7Adam6

19. Lesson Planning – Another Way
Word Templates Mind Mapping
• Use a Template with Text • Use a Mind Mapping tool.
Boxes – Provides live updates to your
– Easier to edit and update lesson.
– Easier to re-order your – Add links and resources
thoughts. directly into your lesson plan
– Use colour coding to help – Highly flexible planning
show the lesson – The Lesson Plan becomes the
vehicle for the lesson.

20. Summary & Review
Have an Introduction Use Twitter to get
Lesson, explaining the ways in which tips, help and current
you will use technology to help the ideas on teaching.
class Shape students use
and behaviour of
Embed uses of technology to help
technology into your them.
.
VLE Courses.

22. Do things differently with Technology..
..Avoid using it for the sake of it !
www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk

23. The Teaching Technology
Palette
http://tiny.cc/S7Adam
Adam Blackwood
Email: A.Blackwood@kent.ac.uk
Twitter:
Individual: @Adamrsc
Organisation: @JISC_RSC_SE
www.rsc-southeast.ac.uk