Well, if you follow me on twitter, you know that I've been at AETC the past two days. What a great conference! Aside from meeting with great friends and colleagues and presenting a session, I took away some great ideas I hope to implement in my classroom. Here's my AETC Smackdown:
- Twitter Book Reports: Students create book teasers. They can even post a link to the book or a picture of the book. (From my friend, Julie D. Ramsay). My classroom has a twitter account and the students tweet what we're learning each day. We'd love to connect with your class on twitter! We're @kilgosnews.
- Innovation Day: For one day students choose what to learn, and how to learn it. They work all day on their self-selected topic and create a presentation they use to teach the class. (Also from Julie).
- VoiceThread: I knew about this free webtool, but haven't put it to use yet. I plan to this year. (from Julie)
- Use Google Forms for creating rubrics. (From my friend, Amanda C. Dykes)
My biggest take-away had to do with using QR codes in the classroom. I've been wanting to do this for a while, but just needed to know a little more about it.
The Daring Librarian has tons of great ideas and tips for using QR codes. You just HAVE to check it out if you're curious about them.
i-nigma is a fabulous multi-platform app for reading QR codes. It scans quickly and saves your scans in your history.
I'm really still trying to process all of the fabulous information! Do you use any of the tools I mentioned? If so, I'd love to know what you do. Maybe our classes could even collaborate on something together. Please share.
Farrah,
ReplyDeleteQR codes have a great deal of potential. I did a series of blog posts that included what they are, how to read them, how to make them, and use for them. Eye on Education picked up on it and published this: http://bit.ly/MT1wuk
Wow! That is such a great resource. Thank you so much for sharing and commenting. It was really nice to meet you at AETC!
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