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Agenda
• What is Mobile Friendly Content?
• What content do you want to deliver to mobile
devices?
• Tools
Weebly
PollEverywhere
QR Codes
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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
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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?
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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How Would You
Get to Here?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CACQmiaU
6CU&list=PLJtYAMJw3i-
hjdWRQ0q2dgl1P75dwfpks&index=1
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Shortened URL http://bit.ly/1oOM8WW
Customized URL http://bit.ly/maandpamath
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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
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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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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.com
http://vimeo.com
http://qrcode.kaywa.com/dashboard/
http://vocaroo.com/ voice recorder
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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
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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/
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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 key
4. Up will come your QR
Code
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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
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