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November 14, 2008

PDA screen magnifiers and QR codes

November 14, 2008

A work package that spun out of a JISC Scoping Study into the Potential of QR Codes in Education was the question, how does a QR code reader on a mobile device work with a screen magnifier on the mobile device. When asked this in the meeting, I ...

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November 03, 2008

The use of an Audience Response Systems to provide peer feedback.

November 03, 2008

As mentioned in previous postings a feedback model which has direct relevance to the use of audience response systems is presented by Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick (2006). This model places the effectiveness of feedback being determined by the ...

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October 31, 2008

Compatability of QR Code Readers and Generators: A little road test

October 31, 2008

Thanks to all that responded to my call for help. An anxiety that I have had is that perhaps not all QR Code readers would read QR Codes from different generators. I’m aware that they should, there is an ISO standard. However, from ...

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QR codes are automatically added to Moodle pages

October 31, 2008

I’m really pleased to announce that the e-learning team have recently released an enhancement to Moodle which appends a QR Code to the bottom of Moodle print outs. Great work from Matt Roper in the e-leanring team, and the support of other ...

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October 22, 2008

QR Code Generator s: Will all qr code readers read all codes generated by qr code generators

October 22, 2008

I've been noting an interesting observation in the last few times that I have used QR codes in presentations is that some readers don't seem to be able to access the qr codes that I have generated. This was a surprise because I assumed that ...

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October 21, 2008

help required: google earth, field work and mobile devices

October 21, 2008

I've a favour to ask for people reading this blog. I'm wondering if there might be a better way of doing the following;scenario: student field strip ... I want the students to be able to use gps to track where they have been. Record ...

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October 10, 2008

QR codes, SMS and class evaluation.

October 10, 2008

I recently read Susono and Shimomura (2006) ( ) who’d used QR codes in formative class assessment. This got me thinking about their potential use in end of class / unit evaluations. So given ...

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using Twitter in education - what the mlearn audience thought

October 10, 2008

I recently presented at mLearn08 about the potential use of Twitter in Teaching and Learning based on a survey I did quite a while ago (slides: ...

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September 30, 2008

QR codes in presentation - lessons from SMS edutxt event

September 30, 2008

I recently presented om some uses of SMS in e-learning. The focus was on what I'd term an "SMS (edutxt) plus" approach. Where I discussed some uses of SMS with QR codes, word clouds etc., (my usual stuff). If you are interested the ...

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August 29, 2008

provide your vCard as a QR Code on your business cards.

August 29, 2008

I've been chatting to lots of people at work about rolling out our QR code projects. Triangualtion with Gwen and Matt resulted in me making a nice Friday discovery for those people who use / generate QR codes. The scenario is as ...

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