Comments for In Another Place

Comment on The QR Code Game by witchyrichy

witchyrichy — Sat, 05 May 2012 15:23:04 +0000

I LOVE this idea of having your attendees preparing for the meeting as they wait. Remember, that this assumes they have a smart phone or ipad with them but many people will have something with them.

As for the game, mine was set up as a physical scavenger hunt. Perhaps since you’re a virtual school, you might do a virtual one: are there particular people/philosophies/pedagogies that are important to you? Could they view a video, or read an article? My students posted their responses to twitter. Again, you can’t guarantee that all your applicants will have a twitter account but it would give them an indication of your expectations in terms of their virtual abilities as well as some deep background on your educational philosophy and expectations.

Comment on The QR Code Game by SL

SL — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:43:46 +0000

Thanks for this great idea. I am an administrator of a new virtual K-12 school. We are having a county recruitment fair and I wanted to do something different for our applicants. As they are standing in line, applicants can access my introduction message and content information about our school all via QR codes.

Most public school recruitment fairs have over 50-100 people standing in line for each school for extended periods of time. I wanted to give our applicants information before they get to me, so we can have meaningful dialogue about teaching and learning.

Would like to create a QR code game in addition to the above plan. Any suggestions?

Comment on The QR Code Game by Tom

Tom — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:52:41 +0000

I think where I struggle (apart from making fun of people who exaggerate the efficacy of UPC codes) is that moving is good and QR codes help get you to URLs etc. more easily than typing out things on a mobile device but I find that’s not good enough.

Educators in favor of QR codes need to be thinking more about what happens when you can get to the Internet in a non-traditional educational space. Why does it matter that you aren’t in the classroom? How do you leverage the guidance of QR codes in a real real world context in a way that matters? I haven’t seen many (if any) really good examples of this. I agree some potential is there but I have yet to see it realized.

I don’t think QR codes themselves will be around for very long if augmented reality kicks in with any degree of saturation. That would make QR codes outdated and awkward pretty quickly.

Comment on Doorknob by Tim Owens

Tim Owens — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:06:15 +0000

I just put a support request in Flickr’s forum because they seem to be having major issues indexing photos. We didn’t have major delays like this last week when we had a few photo assignments. I think a lot of people’s photos didn’t show up yesterday and today seems to be a repeat issue. What a pain. Hopefully someone might be able to fix it, but since Yahoo is running Flickr now my hopes aren’t all that high :/

Comment on Warming Up the Creativity Muscle by Tim Owens

Tim Owens — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 03:06:40 +0000

Also if I could make one little Wordpress recommendation we make to most people taking the course it would be to install the Subscribe to Comments plugin to allow folks to receive follow-up comments by e-mail. It really ends up helping people track conversations they've been a part of.