Creating Mobile Friendly Content for Adult Education
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Creating Mobile Friendly ContentFor Adult Education
Nell Eckersley
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Agenda
• Introductions• What is Mobile Friendly Content?• What content do you want to deliver to
mobile devices?• Tools
o QR Codeso Weeblyo PollEverywhereo PaperLi http://slidesha.re/1j1uJJa
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LINCS Community
https://community.lincs.ed.gov/group/technology-and-learning
What is Mobile Friendly Content?
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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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EveryoneOn
What content do you want to deliver to mobile devices?
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Types of Content
• Writing• Videos• Sound Files and Podcasts• Links• Images• Uploaded Documents• Interactive Content (Quizzes,
Surveys)
Tools
QR Codes
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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Quick Response
How Would You Get to Here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNOpoQztFo&feature=share&list=FLEqfU4INXfYY58eh5Ynm5vA
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Shortened URL http://bit.ly/19wbpyV
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 installedo Apple Devices: Qrafter or Scano 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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Choosing Apps
Ask you students “How do you choose which app to download?”
• Reviews• Ratings• Description• Cost• Permissions
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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QR Codes in Real Life
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QR Codes in Education
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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.comhttp://vimeo.com http://qrcode.kaywa.com/dashboard/
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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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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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/
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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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 key4. Up will come your
QR Code26
• Uh oh, Bitly doesn’t make QR codes anymore…. now what?
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QR Codes from KAYWA
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• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
Weebly
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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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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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Weebly Interface
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Weebly Forms
• Create a Contact Form• Collect Form Submissions• Edit the Contact Form Address• Add an Email Newsletter / Auto-Resp
onder Form
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Weebly Tutorial
• http://help.weebly.com/beginners-guide.html
PollEverywhere
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 quiz37http://novemberlearning.com/resources/handouts/real-time-assessment-with-poll-everywhere/
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PollEverywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/bMUbH4T1jVEPIXC
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PollEverywhere
http://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/GyDlJSh13S4znG5
PollEverywhere in Education
• Best of Web 2.0: Using Poll Everywhere
• QR and Poll Everywhere• Upcycled Education: PollEverywhere• SMS Education: Poll Everywhere Is M
aking the Mobile Pop Quiz More Affordable
• Our survey http://bit.ly/1oZOiBI
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PaperLi
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Paper.Li
http://paper.li/LACNYCnell/1320940472
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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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Paper.Li
• To create a PaperLi account you must have Twitter or Facebook account
• Resourceso 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: [email protected] • Twitter: http://twitter.com/LACNYCnell • LINCS Technology and Learning Group
https://community.lincs.ed.gov/• Website: http://nelightful.weebly.com/
