Monthly Archives: January 2020

I recently learned that QRstuff.com has a scan limit. For the creator everything is free and wonderful…unless you need to have your QR code scanned over 50 times. This really has negative affects if you are distributing a survey, or doing anything for an classroom of students: delivering a webpage, a site login or anything that will be accessed over 50 times.

An alternative to this is to use classroomscreen.com and use the QR code generator and save and share that image of the code. Check out my previous post about classroomscreen.com for more details.

I have been using and pushing this tool for over a year now and my teachers all love it. I thought I had made a post about classroomscreen.com but apparently not.

Classroomscreen is perfect for a whiteboard in a room where the teacher has a lot going on. You can add the date and time. You can place a timer for classroom tasks, a QR code for students to follow. You can add the random name generator (that saves names) and a noise level indicator. There is a place to add notes and even a traffic light. All of this is in front of a choice of many static and some moving backgrounds.

check it out and let me know if you do not just love this site.

While sites like Classtools.net can closely replicate some features of Thinglink.com and other large and robust programs, there is a reason we always go back to the classics. Just as Happy Gilmore will be a movie I can watch over and over again, Thinglink is a site I will use over and over agin. It is everchanging.

Not too long ago Thinglink came out with 360 ° photo tagging for their paid subscribers but not for the majority of free subscribers who use it in the schools. Now the free version includes tagging a 360 ° picture.

Here’s how to do it. I used my insta360 camera and took picture, downloaded the picture to my photos and then emailed it to myself. I know it sounds complicated but it took like 15 seconds to do. From there just upload it into your Thinglink account and share with your class. This video shows what I created in about 2 minutes. Just think what your students can create.

Where can i see this being used? I love it for early elementary to identify almost anything. I can also see great applications in foreign language as well as science class identifying parts of organisms, space etc. If you can find and download 360 ° pics, you do not even have a need for a camera, but if you are going to invest the money the Insta360 is relatively cheap, works well with iphone or ipad and is easy to use.