EDIM 514: u03a1 Shorteners, QR Codes and Site Exploration

Wow! This was another fun week of exploration. What great resources in creating a QR code and a short link. I feel like I’m out of the loop on things, since I didn’t even know this was possible. What practicality to each aspect to use within the classroom as well as personal usage. In my journey this week I tested out Printliminator. This again is a fantastic tool that I wasn’t even aware existed.

Let’s start at the beginning with my first task of creating a short link for my blog and my school profile page. After creating this for both I had mixed feelings. The link created for my blog I felt was much more confusing as seen below than it start out as. I definitely would be able to relay that one as easily over the phone to a person. The second attempt with my profile page for my school was a huge success. It made my link to the website very user friendly and easy to relay verbally.

Next, I created QR codes for both my Blog and profile page on my district website. This feature is absolutely great. Having the increase in smart phone technology and pretty much every student and adult having one of these devices make this perfect. It’s a great simply error free way of accessing websites that pertain to individuals. I will definitely start using it on more handouts and forms I create for my classroom. I could even see how it could be helpful as a link to parents for assignments, rather than the old fashioned go way.

Finally, Printliminator, a great website to help stream line what is being printed for yourself as well as in the classroom. As I worked with this program I loved how I could delete section straight from the websites without having to copy and paste into MS Word. It did remind me of the “snipping tool” in windows 7, but it has its differences. Provided that each computer, students were using, already had this program accessible in the bookmarks bar makes it very useful. I do foresee some instruction the first time being a must as well. However, I can see the applications and more so the elimination of information that is not useful and wasteful in regards to paper and ink. This would be a great tool to use when having students work on research projects, writing current events and other similar types of activities. As the teacher this would be very useful when showing students any document from online resources. Whether it was projected or printed, I could eliminate all the ads and side bar things that distract from what the focus of the material should be, for the current assignment.

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