Mobile. Quick Response (QR) codes are beginning to pop up on city buses, in museum exhibits, and just about anywhere people need easy access to information. But we're only beginning to scratch the surface of how they can be used to improve the formal educational experience. As the number of Americans, particularly students, with smartphones continues to grow, here are four ways QR codes could revolutionize learning in the next decade. 1. Digital portfolios for students. Imagine if all students were assigned a QR code at the beginning of the school year—or even the start of their educational career? Every year, instead of putting that student's assignments or projects into a manila file folder that gets sent home (and oftentimes chucked in the trash) the teacher could upload a few examples of papers, projects, tests and quizzes to the QR code. 2. 3. 4.
Since QR codes are so new, it's hard to imagine all the ways education institutions will be using them in the years to come. About QRilize.com. Qrcode_cards. Resources for the MFL Classroom. Using QR codes in the classroom Ok, I know what you are probably thinking! What on earth is a QRcode? A few weeks ago I thought the same and now I am seeing them all over the place. Basically QR stands for Quick Response code and works similar to a normal barcode you would find on a magazine or pretty much anything you can buy in a shop. Except the main difference is that it can hold around 4000 characters of information. At the moment their most popular use is to scan it (using your mobile phone) and the code takes you directly to a web page.
Remember you need an android or iphone that you can download a free app – most popular for iphone is ‘neoreader’. Watch this step by step video How and why would this be relevant in teaching MFL? The codes are really easy to make, all you do is go to a website like this one… www.qrstuff.com copy and paste a website address, then hey presto your code is made.
Thanks to Steve Anderson’s blog which was a great introduction Like this: Like Loading... QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator from classtools.net. QR Code ON the school « QR Code ® Artist. Mr Hurst’s Lever House Primary School has installed a 2.4 x 2.0m high QR code on the side of the Lever House Primary School building. People can scan the code and it takes them to the interactive school blog where people from around the globe are collaborating with the school pupils and teachers. Staff and pupils are creating QR codes in school too. They are posting them in school on our display boards so that when you read the poetry in Year 6 the QR code links to a podcast of the pupils reading out their poems they have written. They also have QR codes in the hall that link to video footage of the schools the pupils are linked to and collaborating with in China.
Check out our other QR Code in Education category, especially the use of QR Codes in school libraries. Source: Mr Hurst’s blog - check out his blog for a scannable photo of the QR code. Do Try This At Home | Free QR Code enabled worksheets. FREE TEACHER QR Code-enabled Worksheets This page contains a small but growing selection of QR Code enabled worksheets for primary teachers to use; either in class (if you have handheld devices like iTouches) or given as homework (where pupils can access the supporting teaching tutorial (video) via their parent’s smart phone or view them on a desktop computer.
Whether accessed at home or from school, pupils can scan the relevant QR code to launch the explanatory video; giving them their own virtual teacher whenever they need a reminder of the relevant maths process or literacy skill/knowledge. To use one of these resources in your class or as a homework task to be sent home, click on a worksheet image to download it as a pdf. To view the teaching tutorial you can then scan the QR code with your smart phone/iTouch, or use the URL below the QR Code to watch the video on YouTube.
LOOK how easy it is to view the teaching tutorial embedded on the worksheet… The Worksheets Maths: Ratios Connectives. FEATURE: Valentine’s Day stamps panned by philatelists. Chunghwa Post may be an old institution, but it is keeping up with modern trends by issuing Valentine’s Day stamps. On Monday, Valentine’s Day, Chunghwa Post will issue a set of heart-shaped stamps that incorporate a quick response (QR) matrix barcode that can be scanned to spell out: “I love you.” The first year Chunghwa Post issued Valentine’s Day stamps was in 2007 and in the 100th anniversary of the Republic of China, Chunghwa Post is once again releasing special stamps for lovers’ day.
The stamps come in packs of two, with face values of NT$5 and NT$25, and will be on sale at post offices starting on Monday. The post office says it has printed 660,000 NT$5 and 600,000 NT$25 stamps. Chen Li-chiung (陳麗瓊), head of Chunghwa Post’s department of philately, says the theme of this year’s Valentine’s stamps is “the code of true love.” Some collectors are comparing the stamps with Valentine’s Day stamps issued in France, complaining that the Taiwanese design is not particularly beautiful. QR Code Valentine’s Day Postage Stamps.
Asides QR Code Valentine’s Day Postage Stamps Taiwan’s postal service, Chunghwa Post has released two 2011 Valentine’s Day stamps with a QR Code (images below). The 5 yuán stamp decodes as Happy Valentine`s Day! And the 25 yuán stamp as I Love You! In both Chinese and English. inShare9. QRilize - QR code with logo to a mobile landing page. 5 Web Apps Which Show Us How To Make Use Of QR Codes Differently. You must have spotted at least one QR code by now. If not, then you are a certifiable alien from Mars. QR codes are quite the rage. We have them on everything from food labels to car bumpers. And yes, tattoos too! Well, if you have just taken off your green space suit and wondering what the hullaballoo is all about, check out our very previous What Are QR Codes? So, here are five more web apps which show us how QR codes have gone conventional. Send a Wikipedia link as a QR Code If you have a smartphone, QR codes give you the quickest way of opening a link.
Read classic books on a bar code We know that QR codes digitize any information. QR codes are being in fact used by book publishers to connect readers to interactive content like videos, graphics, and music. Text to speech with QR codes Think up some creative uses of this text to speech service called QR Voice which takes the generated audio file and digitizes the speech information in a QR code. Link LinkedIn with QR codes. The Brighton QR Treasure Hunt | Rise to a digital challenge and crack the clues in code. QR Codes in the MFL Classroom - Musings on MFL. QR Codes in the Classroom: Cool Idea or Not? "What is a QR code? " A QR code (QR stands for "Quick Response") is a special bar code that can store website URLs, plain text, phone numbers, email addresses or other alphanumeric data.
It can be read with mobile devices that have a camera and a QR code reader, such as most smartphones, iPads (2) and some iPod Touches. I hear that they can store up to 4296 characters and work internationally, so a QR code is a QR code all over the world. They've been big in Japan for a while and are just now breaking in the USA. You might want to think "print-based hypertext links. " (Silence or sound of crickets) Are you having a Scooby-Doo moment like I did? "So what? I thought so... at first, until I read a few blogs about the potential use of QR codes in education. "Where would one find (or put) a QR code? " On a whiteboard (a flipchart page, for example) or on printed paper. So that got me thinking about possibilities in education and I started doing research. "Hmm... access to what specifically? " Creative uses for QR Codes. QR Codes make it easier for people to connect with your business or brand.
Simply scan the code with your smart phone and you'll be directed instantly to a website or online portfolio. So now that everyone is using them on Business Cards, how can you make your QR Codes ideas stand out? Missing details One way to make your Business Card QR Code stand out is to make it the only thing on there! Without any other printed details, new clients and contacts will have no choice but to scan the code, which then leads to far more contact details and online social media than one Business Card could possibly display. Centre of attention Even if you still include all your contact details on your Business Card, they'll stand out if your QR Code is a central feature in the design, rather than squashed into a corner.
Lost property Watch and learn If you're putting a QR Code on your Business Card, remember that wherever it leads has to be easy to look at on a Smartphone. Make it beautiful Analyse this.