Augmented Reality in Education- Shaw Wood Primary School uses Aurasma from Serkan AYTAÇ on Vimeo. Use Aurasma to bring learners’ work and displays to life! Basically, this is what happens when QR codes and augmented reality collide! When the chosen photo is scanned by a mobile device, video footage of the learner(s) discussing, acting or Full Article…
Blapp Snapp Thing Link
My last post was about using Thinglink and I posted a very quick and untested idea with a request for suggestions on how to use it. Well Julian Wood’s blog @ideas_factory has provided a great example of Thing link being used in the classroom by Wil Baker. Julian’s blog is full of great ideas and Full Article…
Thing Link
Love this app – only just discovered it so working out how I might use it in the classroom. This picture was just one I had to hand – it’s the cover of a book written by Nic Daniels (who co-authors this site!). Roll over the picture and find the hotspots – they have a Full Article…
QR Literacy
Great post from David Mitchell – thanks to him and his year 6 pupils. He says: “Today I introduced pupils to QR codes and after 5 minutes they knew exactly what to do. We talked about what we could do with them and amongst other things we discussed how great it would be to link Full Article…
Picture vocabulary
Just a very quick idea for teaching foreign language vocabulary – give children a series of words and ask them to type each one into Google images. Work out what the word means from the pictures. If you want to extend this activity, download one of the pictures and add it to a scrapbook programme Full Article…
A Google a Day: Efficient searching.
There is a great website called, helpfully, agoogleaday.com You will be asked for your Google+ log in but even if you don’t have one, you can still play the basic game. Each day there is a new question and you are timed to see how fast you can get the right answer using Google. If Full Article…