QR Codes Quick Reference Sheet

OR Code Quick Reference Sheet
1.) mobile device apps to help you get started: Neo Reader (easiest, most effective to use), QR Reader, Red
Laser, etc…. Search Android marketplace or App Store “QR codes”
2.) QR CODE GENERATORS
• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ -easiest to use
• http://www.qrstuff.com/ -change colors, visual aspect of code
• http://snap.vu/ -QR codes can be tracked via email or website. Content inside code can be modified without making new code. Requires account-Free to sign up
3.) Enhance classroom resources-Print a QR Code on a sticker and place in a text book at the relevant point. Students scan the QR Code are taken to related material, for example a video, web page or source of further information.
4.) Open house or Parent Communication
o Group work-highlight classroom activities
o Labs-provide highlights of labs, instructions, safety procedures etc…
o Classroom Trailers (like a movie trailer)-show a video of
o to let students preview what a day may be like in the class.


5.) Assignment Calendar

6.) Kinesthetic Reading AdventurePlace the QR codes around the school to encourage movement while reading. Student scan code, read the passage and travel to new QR code to finish story.

7.) Create Virtual Tour of the School

· Put some QR codes around the school.

· One in the entrance - linking to a text of the school mission statement or URL of school website.

· Office-linking to school vision.

· Outside classroom student work, video clips, etc…

8.) Create digital aspects for project displays

Add QR Codes to classroom displays to enrich and make interactive by linking to:

· videos of how the display was made

· Blogposts on students’ commentaries on their artwork, poems, writing;

· Further information about the country, period in history, person etc;

· A Google Form for feedback.

· Links to videos-Civil War reenactment, project diaries

9.) Create your own choose your adventure story

Create a "choose your own adventure" story that has individual QR Codes that need to be scanned in order to advance through the story. Authors have to write alternatives endings and the reader choose which path to take.

10.) Write your own Mysteries-In crime or mystery stories, the reader scans who they believe committed the crime. Author writes the story and create suspects through their writing. Reader scans code to see if they solve the crime correctly.