Well I've thoroughly enjoyed preparing my next web design lesson. We'll be reviewing good & bad web design, which I think will be interesting and offers a great opportunity for collaborative working, and then I'm going to do a session on QR codes, which I think will be great fun.
I've generated a couple of codes of my own to get the class started, but I can see great potential for this with my teenage students, who I think could be very easily engaged in a variety of ways using QR codes. Definitely one of the more interactive aspects of ICT at the moment!!
I'm planning an online training session on QR codes - perhaps you can drop in and share some ideas!! I love QR codes. I remember covering them with my e-marketing students in 2007 when they were used for the promotion of the DVD release of 28 Weeks Later and started appearing on Pepsi cans. They were a big craze in Japan at the time and the class looked at me bemused as I raved about them being the next big thing in marketing. I also started exploring how they could be used in class, but didn't get much of a chance to develop this. Hope it all goes well.
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Thanks for your comment Matt. I'd love to drop in on your QR codes session - let me know when it is!
ReplyDeleteI taught this session to one group before half term, and another this week. Generally it was very enthusiastically received. Someone said they couldn't 'see the point' of them, so I suggested that a taxi firm might get them printed onto beer mats - potentially an easy way to generate business at the end of the night!
Let me know if you'd like my class notes :)