Technology in your hands - The affordable gadget show. - With Additions from the Day.
This ebook lists most of the devices, apps, ideas and tools demonstrated at the LSIS Teaching and Learning Fair 2012 at the QE2 Centre in London. If you would like more information on any of the ideas for using technology to support teacing and learning, please contact do us.
Adam Blackwood
Email: A.Blackwood@kent.ac.uk Twitter: @Adamrsc
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Microsoft Mouse Mischief
Classroom Response System – FREE. Just using the Microsoft download for PowerPoint and someBluetooth mice.
•http://www.microsoft.com/multipoint/mouse-mischief/
Mains Connected Network
Robust, cheap inexpensive network solutions for home use, difficult locations, remote buildings, adhoc networks etc. Examples from Devolo and Netgear. •http://www.devolo.co.uk/
ACTION Cameras
Uses: Quick Evidence gathering tool. Create demonstration videos for students, useful in workshop, practical demonstrations fieldwork etc. •http://www.veho-uk.com/main/
Presentation Mouse
Uses: Versatile presentation tool. http://tiny.ccygvlgw
Photoscape (Software)
Uses: FREE – useful picture editing, manipulation, picture re-sizing gif animation tool. Very easy to use.
•http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php
GPS Sports Watches & Cloud Solutions
Uses: Track and share sports activities using various GPS watches and smart pedometers (such as the iTunes Nike+ system). Sports personal tracking and social networking sites allow you to compete and run with other groups of people. The Strava.com site allows you to monitor cycling, hiking and running activities and share with people, (students?, schools?, colleges? Sports centres?)
Eg: Strava.com
http://www.strava.com
Evidence Capturing Tool from a student’s phone (App)
Uses: Tell students to use one of the picture annotation apps available for phones to capture evidence of their progress and achievements using their camera phone and explained using annotations. These can then be sent directly to the tutor via bluetooth or email…
•http://tiny.cc/picsay
Do a lot more with QR Codes.. QR Codes and Re-Direct Sites
Uses: Create Re-Useable QR Codes to.. Update Course Handbooks with the latest assignment dates, produce posters that are continually updated with the latest links to videos, notices, podcasts, handouts that can be updated during the week with the new help notices about assignments, homework…
Re-Direct Sites (Digital Signposting) - The ability to easily update Hard Copy Resources with Digital signposts
•http://tiny.cc/smartmarketingcourse
EverNote – Versatile Cloud solution for taking notes
Uses: Students could use this app as a way of taking media rich notes which include pictures, audio and video as well as text.
•http://evernote.com/
Portable Projectors
Uses: Students could use this app as a way of taking media rich notes which include pictures, audio and video as well as text. Video link demonstration at: http://tiny.cc/eusmgw
Portable Keyboards
•Uses: Free yourself from the computer at the front of the classroom or the one in the corner connected to the projector. Use a simple Bluetooth Keyboard and or Mouse solution. Link to the Logitech keyboard here: http://tiny.cc/lzcmgw
Khan Academy
Uses: Simply an amazing FREE resource for self study and supporting students learning in Mathematics (at ALL levels), sciences, business etc. If you teach in these areas and you have not spent sometime exploring the potential of this resource… do !
•http://www.khanacademy.com
Audio Feedback
Uses: Improve learners feedback experience, reduce staff time, improve the opportunities for reviewing and reflection on feedback .. By using Audio Feedback solutions. Simple MP3 Voice recorders cost around £12 - £15. And there are many other ways. A complete course on audio feedback and all resources is available at the link below….
•http://tiny.cc/audiofeedbackcourse
Useful Apps:
- Photo Annotation Apps Search for PicSay in the Android Play Store and Skitch in the iTunes stores. Both these apps allow your students to take a picture and then annotate them for submission of evidence that they have understood what they have just taken a picture of.
- Note Taking App - EVERNOTE: Evernote is a media rich note taking word processor essentially which can be used on any smart phone, table, PC or Mac. Students can take pictures, video and add audio comments to the one document they are writing in. This could be audio comments from the tutor on their work in the classroom. All their notes made in Evernote become available on every computer / tablet / phone you have evernote installed on. Website: http://www.evernote.com
- Revision Card Apps: There are a range of Flash Card Apps that can be used with smartphones, tablets, and also with PCs. Search in your phone's market place for a Flash Card app (recommend Kaka Flash Cards [Note, not the Kaka Flash Card 2] , if you have an Android). Most of these apps can be linked to a website called StudyStack http://www.studystack.com . The useful feature about StudyStack is that it allows you to create your own piles of revision cards which then become available for your students to carry around on their phones, or if they do not have a phone, to view them on any computer. The StudyStack site also lists all the Flash Card Apps it is compatible with for the different types of phones (Androind, iPhone, Blackberry, Symbian etc).
BlueTooth:
Bluetooth solutions can be used for helping with providing information to students in remote locations as well as inside the classroom. Bluetooth solutions including management software can be purchased from companies such as TextBlue http://www.textblue.co.uk A small paper explaining the different types of wireless technologies, including NFC or Near Field Communication is available for download from: http://tiny.cc/bluetoothdoc
