Today I have been working with the Graphic Design students, introducing them to Padlet and also having a QR-code adventure, so I've already picked up some nice tools from the pedagogical studies that I can effectively use in my everyday teaching.
For the Padlet part, I showed the students how to use it and showed them some examples of how it can be used for making presentations, which can be found from the Padlet pages. I also showed them the interactive quality to it and we discussed the possibilities of when it can be used (mostly for sharing ideas, especially visual ideas, among people working on a project who are not located in the same place) and when it maybe isn't so good (when you can just talk to the person sitting next to you, rather than using Padlet).
They took to it immediately, because it looks fun and it's so easy to use. Some of them said they would possibly use it in future.
I think, for me, I add it to
Prezi as a nice browser based presenting tool that I am happy to show students.
For the QR codes, I divided the students into three groups and made a short "QR adventure" for them. They had to find the next one and perform tasks. It was nice as they knew what the QR codes were, but this forced them to download the app for reading and actually read and use them.
Now they are working in their groups to make their own QR code adventures for the other groups... Let's see how this goes!
Till next time!
