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QR CODES. QR Codes – What Are They. Quick Response Code 2-D Bar code Scanning the QR Code takes you to a website with more information. Video Website Blog Wiki Direct link to a page on the web. QR Codes are EVERYWHERE. Zoo’s – provide more info on a particular exhibit
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QR Codes – What Are They • Quick Response Code • 2-D Bar code • Scanning the QR Code takes you to a website with more information. • Video • Website • Blog • Wiki • Direct link to a page on the web
QR Codes are EVERYWHERE • Zoo’s – provide more info on a particular exhibit • Catalogues - contains more sales information • University mailings – link to university website • Post Office – advertising postal services on line • Now used instead of Business Cards • Marketing Technique
What Technology do You Need? • Need a QR Code generator – link provided • Need a way to read the QR Codes • Smart phone • Tablet (Ipad or other device with a camera and internet access) • QR Code reader – NeoReader App - Free
QR Codes for Inside the classroom • QR codes stuck on tables leading likes to a video of a science experiment • QR code at a Poetry Center taking kids to poetry reading, author interview, picture of a setting, historic place • Homework: After school, teachers can put together everything that was done in class that day, create a QR code, put it on a sticky label, and slap it on a calendar for the students to scan
QR Codes – Bring Public into the Classroom • When students publish online – send home a QR code to parents so they can take a look. Also post the code on the corporation site for the public to access • Students write and perform a Public Service Announcement (food drive) – post it online then make a flyer with a QR code to the video which can then posted in the school or community to help collect food
QR Codes – Student Generated Codes • Book Reviews: kids read a book, do a book review on line, attach it to a QR code, and put it in the binding of the book. When students scan the QR codes attached to the books, they can see their classmates' reviews. • Students create book commercials on line – create a QR code link. Attach the link to a movie poster advertising the book • Kids research topics on the internet – find articles, videos, interviews – create QR codes that can be attached to text books