In the end, this was a fun and relatively easy activity to build into our celebration of Te Reo Māori at St Andrew’s College. There are some specific apps aimed at doing this, such as Scavify, but building your own would probably not be too difficult either. One idea could be an orientation programme for new students, aimed to get them going around the campus to learn where different places/services are located. Now that we know that Dropbox File Requests is an easy way to submit and receive files via mobile phones this could be used for other Digital Scavenger Hunts with a different theme. I had a chat with Mr Tom Adams, our eLearning Integrator, at the end of this competition and we both agreed that this is an idea that could be recycled easily for other purposes. Here are a couple of example photos that were entered: The competition proved most popular in our Preparatory School, with the majority of entries coming from Year 7 students. Video showing how to submit photos for the Digital Scavenger Hunt directly from your mobile phone This allowed me to show what to do on the phone to upload photos and video, whilst simultaneously showing what it looked like on the Dropbox account as the files were submitted: To assist students with how to submit their entries, I made an instructional video using ScreenFlow 6 and a nice new feature in version 6 is the ability to record the screen of your mobile phone. Students entered their name and email address when submitting files, so all entries were easily identifiable and Dropbox emailed me as the account owner when a submission was made.Any files they submitted were visible only to me as the Dropbox account – students could not see the entries of anyone else which was important. ![]() We used a QR Code and shortened URL to make it easier to type on a phone – ![]()
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