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= QR Codes & Tools =

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QR Code Classroom Ideas
There are a lot of resources available with lesson ideas for using QR codes in classrooms. Here a few ideas that are our favorite. They come from a variety of sources.


 * 1) Adding QR codes to Word documents for students to check their answers.
 * 2) Print a QR Code on a sticker & place in a text book at the relevant point. Pupils scanning the QR Code are taken to related material, for example a video, web page or source of further information.
 * 3) Create an "easter egg/scavenger hunt". The students must seek out the QR codes that are posted in a given area. Use the codes to go to information to answer a question &/ or find a clue. Then on to finding the code.
 * 4) Add QR codes that lead to book trailers to the backs of library books.
 * 5) Add QR codes to math worksheets with video tutorials of how to solve the problems.
 * 6) In math provide some data on a paper handout with a QR code for an online graphing tool like **Create-a-Graph**.
 * 7) Stick a QR code wherever there is a child's target (e.g. at the front of a their text book or on a wall display). Link to an audio or video recording explaining what their target is & the steps & strategies to achieve it.
 * 8) When learning about money, I know that many of us set up ‘class shops’. Why not add another dimension to this by pricing up some of the class shop items with QR codes. Children can scan these to find out the price in the same way that items would have their barcodes scanned at the checkout of a real shop.
 * 9) Create an audio or video podcast & create a QR code for students to use to listen or watch the audio or video podcast.
 * 10) Place QR codes in the outdoor classroom containing information about the tree, plant, insect, or object while they explore.
 * 11) Create a math worksheet that has QR codes besides each problem. Upon scanning the code a step by step tutorial is launched in Youtube explaining the process of solving the problem. Students can use when they are stuck on a particular problem or to check their work.
 * 12) Stick QR codes in reading books that the children take home. These could link to online comprehension questions for parents or to websites that children can use to find out more information about the books or to related games that they can play.

QR Codes
One thing that you may have noticed recently is the influx of strange black & white squared shape codes all over the place. Businesses, billboards, magazines, & products you buy in the grocery stores. Ever wonder what they were? They are called QR codes, also known as Quick Response Codes. Basically, they are bar codes that can be scanned & take you quickly to a website, text information, & phone number.

To be able to read a code, you can easily download one from the App Store (ex; //**Qrafter**//) or the Droid Market (ex; //**QR Droid**//) to your smartphone or mobile device. They are a great new tool to use in the classroom by taking away the fuss of typing a long address into a device’s mobile browser, by just simply scanning a code & then opening the website or file.  QR codes can be used in education easily as a way to present information easily to parents, staff, & students. They can be a great way for students to share a project & for auditory learners to learn quickly.

There are a lot of webpages out there for creating QR codes. Three options are //**Kaywa QR-Code**//, //**QR Voice**//, & //**GOQR.ME**//. All of them you simply enter the information you want to be read. This can be a web address, text, phone number, text message, or business card information. Then the websites will create a downloadable QR code for you to use.

Other classroom ideas,
 * Students create paragraphs over the planets. Create QR codes & place them next to the pictures of the planets.
 * Display student artwork, & create a gallery for parents & staff to scan a code to learn more about the artist & artwork.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For orientation day, have QR codes outside the doors of teachers & other important rooms. So new students can walk around & scan the code to learn more about the teacher or subject.

Here is a classroom project that our second graders did using the **Fotobabble** app & **GOQR.ME**,
 * //Favorite Part of Me//
 * Students record their voice with the Fotobabble app & then create a QR code at GOQR.ME. In this project, students write a descriptive paragraph, describing their favorite part of themselves (hair, eyes, smile, hand, etc...). When the paragraph is ready for presentation mode, using Fotoabble & an iOS device (we used iPods), students record themselves reading their paragraph & add a picture. By using the share feature & capturing the URL that was assigned to the recording, the teacher created a QR code at GOQR.ME, to be shared digitally from anywhere. The teacher also printed out the QR codes & hung them in the hallway to share with other classes & parents.

** QR Code Generators **

 * ====**GOQR.ME**====
 * QR code generator where you can generate a code for text, a URL, phone number, text message, & business card information.
 * ====**Kaywa QR-Code**====
 * QR code generator that creates codes for URLs, text, phone numbers, & text messages.
 * ====**QR Voice**====
 * QR code generator, where you can record a short audio message, or type your message in a foreign language.

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator
//**ClassTools**//

So what do all these QR codes mean to educators? How can they be used in the classroom? Try the QR Game Generator from ClassTools.net. This treasure hunt gets students using their mobile devices or the building’s iPods to move & to learn. Just submit, create, display, & begin. You can create your own quiz by entering your questions, print off the QR codes for each question, & have the students begin their treasure hunt around the building.

//Last Updated - July 2013//