Thing 3

#3 Utilities

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Our school recently purchased 50 Chromebooks for students to use in our JH.  Chrome is the search engine of choice for most students.  We have both IE and Chrome on our lab terminals and find a number of applications do not open when in IE. Firefox is rarely used but still available as a search engine option (a number of sites we access seem to freeze up in Firefox).  Duck, Duck, Go is another search engine some students use.  It doesn't track you as Google does and has less clutter.

Some teachers in our school are using the QR code creator i-nigma with their students.  It is also free.  Our 1st grade students researched penguins, wrote about their findings, recorded via Audioboo, and then placed the QR code they created below their writing.  The pages were copied and books were then available for students to audibly follow as they read their new books.

This #3 challenge is a good one for me.  It's time to get after using the code reader in the library.  The examples offered are relevant.  I hope to try the Yukon Schools book review project with the Maud Hart Lovelace titles in our library next fall.