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Firstly we learnt on how to make and work with QR code. Take a look at the code with the contact details of our school!

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We started the day with a team building  excercise

Create pairs.

Task: pick one photo from your mobile and talk 1 min about it with your partner. Then present your partner to the group.

Working with QR codes.                                                                                                You download a QR codescanner. More applications allow you to create a qr code. We used the QR code monkey to create QR codes in various colours and shapes. The participants went around the tables scanning each QR code created by their classmates.

Discussion in pairs on how to use it. Put ideas in the wall. participants see them wondering the around like in a gallery.

watch the video

the magic of using qr codes in the classroom.

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The magic of QR codes in the classroom - Karen Mensing

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Have you heard of the 4 Cs in the education of 21st century?
communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity
Today we tested following apps

popplet

Mindmapping tool to work with visual thinking. It works with images and text.
example http://popplet.com/app/#/5443205

thinglink interactive images RECOMENDED

example from the work of our group in the final presentation
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1206173448364097543
In thinkling  you can create a poster with music, video etc. for example about a historical building, or 10 top facts etc, or use of your own photos.  tell the story of your family in 10 steps. You can add links, qr codes, google search etc. You can make a map of a game.

vocaroo  ONLINE VOICE RECORDER allows you to  record your voice and send it or create a qr code….think aloud techniques, funny words, used for practice of a foreign language https://vocaroo.com/

For REFLECTION after class or aster a semester you can use:

Canva  for posters, select the part  "comic strip" and "yearbook" for pupils!!!!

AND OF COURSE A Padlet just like this one as a PORTFOLIO where pupils can write  one task every week, one personal reflection every week etc
https://padlet.com/guseduca/7fv4ha27jyep

DO NOT  FORGET THE IMPORTANCE OF making your pupils store in a Cloud, like google drive or Box.

google docs gives them the choice to collaborate and /or comment to the works of their fellow pupils.
Propose to students to comment on each others work. You can even make a common folder with parents..! especially for teachers of primary to get parents involved.
Finally...some more infos on elearning

http://taccle2.eu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TACCLEEnglishDEF.pdf

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Some theory

best performing schools are where schools and community are one. what schools does makes sense and actually is what the community needs or is doing.

technologies create learning situations richer for pupils to create ….they themselves do not improve learning

the power to create lies in the hands of students….student-centered...ICT in classroom is not about teachers to show powerpoint and videos...is about students doing things themselves.

skills have to be taught to our pupils on how they should use ICT.in a useful way....ex1 like google search tips...what is relevant, what kind of text is it about...or ex.2 send emails and put title, accompanying text, name of presentation etc. or ex3 how to use the cloud to store and collaborate.

IMPORTANT why you use a tool and what for. what competencies do i want my pupils to develop!

learn to make choices!! Learning occurs better when i have to make choices, like a driver!!

Apps to check!

genial.ly 4 presentations

powertoon 4 videos creation

activinspire foreign language...dialogues. word game in portugese...You are  in an island which objects would you take with you

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Genially, the platform for interactive animated content

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Engage your audience with clickable, gamified, media-rich experiences. Create your interactive content now!

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Pupils will really learn when they feel that what they learn is useful.
Real world learning

We need a stimulating classroom environment. Decoration  in colours, fun.
Just check the following photos from the schools we visited!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rAxRzcHBqmtSBWhi6

More applications

BOOKCREATOR  Create books with images, links, music and photos. Comics are particularly good. works in google chrome.

https://read.bookcreator.com/RvjGkP4EvKcyBlp9yJhc9mPFwDq2/VMehFP5WRaWG4U1_Kd0zvw

EXERCISE Stimulate pupils imagination with a real theme...for example THEME DIRTY CLASSROOMS. exercise
Create dialogue among you and the rubbish bin….what strange can you find inside etc...what would  the rubbish bin reply? Write the dialogue and take fotos and write a newspaper of what should be changed.

learningapps.org…. lots of apps in all subjects. ex German . you can check them and copy them, then edit them and create your own similar app!!

https://learningapps.org/createApp.php

photography in teaching and learning

Autocollage microsoft...this is already installed, already used

fotor.com   artistic collage to make a mother day, a yearbook

funny.pho.to

mentimeter for STATISTIC and Word CLOUDS.  it is a good starting point to ask the class about their knowledge or expectations in a theme. They enter a code and use it from their mobile phones and from internet. Online results

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Video making

biteable.com! check the example.

https://biteable.com/watch/sesimbra-2314886

ACTIVITY to encourage writing.
Sharing stories on our desktops.

Close your eyes for 1 min.

start writing a story on your laptop without stopping about what you thought during this minute.
Move to the next laptop and complete the story of the person next to you...do not try to change it, just follow the initial thought... Keep changing places for a bit more. In the last laptop you will find yourself find an end for the story and a title. Go back to your computer and see the story. Illustrate it. This process  can also have a theme like our relationship to water etc

More tools we saw for evaluation of students and teachers.

quizzes as tool for homework  https://quizizz.com/

socrative for team work with quizzes

https://socrative.com/
You create the quiz and then you go to SPACE RACE, and click on the QUIZ you made. Pupils can play it in teams entering the inline class and then you can see statistics of the results. Recommended!

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Here is a nice presentation of a lesson from the participants.
In "Microsoft painting" they integrated QR codes that lead to various excercises. The subject was the life of Lord Byron
The first QR code leads to a video presentation made with biteable application, the second QR to a learningapps application with a question to answer,  the third QR to the application qrco.de to pdf document and the forth  QR to a padlet, where you could take a photo and insert it like a class diary. We come home being turned into super high tech geeks :-)