Nexus 7 for Adult Education

Nexus 7 for Adult Education

Nell Eckersley

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Objectives Integrating mobile technology Navigating the Nexus 7 Choosing Android apps for education

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Integrating Mobile Technology Inside the classroom Outside the classroom

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EveryoneOn

http://www.everyoneon.org/adulted

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EveryoneOn

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Navigating the Nexus 7

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Nexus 7 Up to 8 user accounts on each Nexus 7

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Notifications Swipe down from the top of screen

to view your notifications, and swipe up to close the notification window.

To dismiss a notification, swipe sideways to remove it from the list, or press the icon in the top-right corner of the window to dismiss all listed notifications. To open a notification, press it to start the app it's associated with. The notification will be removed from the list automatically.

Quick Settings: Sliding down from the top-

right corner of the screen displays the Quick Settings window, which has shortcuts to your Settings, wireless and airplane-mode options, brightness controls, and other settings

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/quick-and-simple-time-saving-tips-for-the-nexus-7/

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Keyboard & Autocorrect If you'd rather do without the typing

suggestions, open Settings, choose "Language & input" under Personal, press the Quick Settings icon to the right of the entry for your keyboard in the Keyboard & Input Methods list, choose "Auto-correction" under Text Correction, and set the Auto-correction option to Off.

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Screenshots To take a screenshot on your new Nexus 7,

hold in the volume down and the power buttons at the same time. After a brief pause, you'll hear an audible noise and see an animation.

Screenshots are automatically saved to your Gallery but you can upload them to email, Dropbox etc.

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-the-nexus-7/

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Adding Website Shortcuts to Homescreen

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MRNY Student Website

Now you try-add the MRNY Student website bookmark to your home screen

1. Open Chrome2. Type in this URL:

http://mrnystudent.weebly.com/3. Click on the menu button and select add

to home screen4. Rename the link so it is useful 5. Check to see that the bookmark is on

your home screen

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Organizing Your Apps To remove or move an app, hold your

finger down on the app until the Remove label shows up at the top of the screen

Drag the app to the Remove label if you want to remove it form the screen

Drag the app to the side of the screen to move the app onto another “page”

Drag the app icon onto another app icon to create a folder

Tap the folder once to name the folder or move an app out of the folder

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Android Apps for Education

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Apps QR Droid Chrome/FirefoxBETA Quizlet Book Creator Kindle and/or Nook Movenote for

Education

YouTube Flickr Evernote Google Drive Dropbox Microsoft office

mobile

Username: [email protected]  Passwor d : August2014!

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How do we get everyone to here?

1. http://youtu.be/-GHWBV54iU8?list=PLWVdtJgmpwAEDoZQZTzZA5pN__4oihNMy

2. http://bit.ly/1uTrPtw

3. QR Code

QR Code Readers

QR Codes can be used with a mobile device like a smart phone or a tablet that has access to the internet

The device must have an QR Code reader (also called scanner) app installed Android Devices: QR Droid

NOTE: You should NOT have to pay money or give information about yourself when selecting and installing a QR Code reader or scanner

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Choosing Apps

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Choosing Apps

Ask you students “How do you choose which app to download?”

Reviews Ratings Description Cost

Image with Narration

To hear about this photo go to this link

http://vimeo.com/64923339 or scan this QR Code 

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Tools used to create this:https://www.google.com/voice https://www.dropbox.comhttp://vimeo.com http://qrcode.kaywa.com/dashboard/

QR Codes in Education

QR Codes in Adult Education (video) Make your own QR Code Scavenger Hunt! Scavenger Hunt 5 Real Ways To Use QR Codes In Education Black & White and Scanned All Over (video) QR Codes Connect Students to Books Shambles QR Code Resource Desktop QR Code Reader QR Codes in Education Livebinder 50 QR code resources for the classroom

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Make Your Own QR Code

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Bitly (for URL’s) https://bitly.com/ Google (for URL’s) http://goo.gl/ Kaywa (for URL’s and contact info)

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ ScanLife (for URL’s and contact info)

http://www.scanlife.com/en/ ZXING (for URL’s, wifi, contact info and

more) http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/

Shortening Links

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You can use BitLy to shorten URL’s without creating an account

https://bitly.com/

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Make Your Own QR Code

1. Paste the Bitly shortened URL in the address bar of your browser

2. Type .qr at the end of the shortened URL

3. Hit the Enter key4. Up will come your

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Uh oh, Bitly doesn’t make QR codes anymore…. now what?

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QR Codes from KAYWA

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http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

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Quizlet

Flash cards with sound, you can make your own sets, students can make their own sets or you can find other people’s sets.

Join our class http://quizlet.com/join/qddVHPR7v

http://quizlet.com/ http://

community.eflclassroom.com/page/quizlet-1

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Book Creator

You can make books with images, words, videos and audio. Books can be uploaded to Google Books or YouTube

Your First Book http://support.redjumper.net/entries/27222102-Your-first-book

Support forums http://support.redjumper.net/forums

Book Creator - Application of App That Reaches Modification on SAMR http://bit.ly/BookCreatorSAMR

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Movenote for Education

Movenote allows you to create instructional videos with an image or PowerPoint in the main area and your own face recorded narrating information about the image/Powerpoint

Movenote tutorials on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/Movenote

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2013/11/movenote-another-easy-free-tool-for-creating-digital-learning-content/

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Flickr

Flickr is a photo sharing site—you can share your photos or find photos other people have uploaded

Flickr Commons https://www.flickr.com/commons

Library of Congress photos on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/Library_of_Congress

Lesson ideas for using photos for EL Civics instruction http://www.elcivics.com/

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Android Education Apps

https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/EDUCATION

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Games & Dictionaries http://www.androidauthority.com/best-andr

oid-apps-esl-learning-english-95816/

Madlibs https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.portdusk.android.madlibsfree&hl=en

Johnny Grammar Word Challenge https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubl.spellmaster&hl=en

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Weebly Interface

http://nelightful.weebly.com/blog1

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Weebly Forms Create a Contact Form Collect Form Submissions Edit the Contact Form Address Add an Email Newsletter / Auto-Responder

Form

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Weebly Tutorial http://help.weebly.com/beginners-guide.ht

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My contact info

Nell Eckersley Email:  [email protected] Twitter:  http://twitter.com/LACNYCnell  LINCS Technology and Learning Group

https://community.lincs.ed.gov/ Website: http://nelightful.weebly.com/