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PowerPoint, Projects, Roanoke County Schools, Science

2nd Grade PowerPoints

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Tina Coffey

Second Graders at Glenvar Elementary just completed their annual Animal Research Project. They researched animals using a google custom search and created powerpoints about them! Check out their work below!

https://www.box.com/embed/nyte0pt509h49h8.swf

https://www.box.com/embed/pe03otc4gkxbv4y.swf

https://www.box.com/embed/htyn7wz1nwr9js9.swf

Projects, QR Codes, Roanoke County Schools

Pirate Joke QR Codes

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Tina Coffey

I love International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19)! Well, basically, I just love Pirates!! I usually do something with geocache treasure hunting on this day, but this year I’m adding QR Code Pirate Fun. I’m posting Pirate Jokes with QR Code answers around the school. I know this activity isn’t all that education (though I think understanding jokes is a great higher level thinking activity and it’s a great way to practice reading skills), but my main goal is to excite students (and hopefully teachers too) about QR Codes and iPod/iPad use. Students will be using the app i-nigma to find the answers to these jokes. I’ll let you know how it goes! Meanwhile, if you want to use these Pirate QR Code Jokes for Talk Like A Pirate Day,here’s where you can get them!

Pirate QR Code Jokes

Ideas, iPad, iPod Touch, Projects, QR Codes, Roanoke County Schools

QR Craze

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Tina Coffey

You’ve seen them, right? On the corners of mailings, on the windows of businesses, maybe even on the tags of things you buy. You may have even used them…used your phone to scan one and get coupons or reviews for a business or more info on a product. But did you know they are being used like crazy in classrooms?

Here’s one of my favorite videos about the use of QR codes in the classroom.

And here’s one based more for elementary school:

So basically to use QR codes, you need the following things:

QR Code Generator (usually a website that will easily make the code for you)
A device with a camera to read it(iPod touch, iPad, cell phone, or computer with webcam)
QR Code Reader (which you download to the device with a camera

Want to create a QR code? It’s easy…your students can even do this!

Here’s a few QR Code generators:

Here a few QR Code Readers:

For iPods/iPads phones and phones: i-nigma QR Code Reader
For Mobile Phones: Kaywa.com QR code reader
For Mobile Phones: NeoReader
For Mobile Phones: AT&T QR Code Scanner

And here are some cool links to use them:

And here are some ideas for using QR Codes in the classroom:

Interesting ways to use QR Codes in the Classroom

Projects, Roanoke County Schools, Writing

Sock Worms, Banana Split Milkshakes, and Homemade Pillows!

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Tina Coffey

Need to know how to create a sock worm? Or banana split milkshakes? What about a pillow, potato woman, hamburger, or a friendship bracelet. Students in Mrs. Devlin’s class created videos to show you how!

In this project, they wrote step by step directions on storyboards, took pictures with digital camearas, and used photostory to record and create digital stories with step by step directions

. Taking Pictures Recording