QR Codes



I have joined the QR Code craze!  

I am loving incorporating these little codes into my classroom.  My students love scanning them, and I am learning more about how to create classroom activities using them.  I found great examples of classroom activites on the blog of Audrey Colwell and tutorials of how to make them on her QR Code Binge post.

 

To introduce QR codes to our school, I first created a staff development for our back to school meeting. I created a QR code scavenger hunt around our library which linked teachers to awesome website examples of creation apps  being used on iPads to demonstrate learning in primary classrooms.  I linked the QR codes to some examples from the great blogs I have seen recently, such as Matt B. Gomez, Kristi Meeuwse, Kristen Wideen, Kathy Cassidy, and Karen Lirenman.

I used the website http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ to generate my QR codes for free.  I created a page to show how to make codes on this site for teachers at my school.  Here are the directions.  Click the picture to download a copy.

 One activity my class has completed with the QR codes was to unscramble our sight words.  Each QR code brought up a graphic of a scrambled sight word.  The students unscrambled it and recorded the correct sight word on their recording sheet.

I created QR codes to put on our classroom door.  Each child's photo has a QR code that links to his/her Kidblog site.  I thought this would be a great way to introduce our Kidblogs to parents on "Open House" night.