How to use them Successfully in the Classroom

Whats a QR Code? A QR Code is a specific matrix bar code (or two-dimensional code), readable by dedicated QR bar code readers and camera phones. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

Open a QR Code Reader App Point it at a QR Code The App activates the camera on the mobile device This in turn will open up the correct application to handle the data embedded in the code How Does It Work

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Websites URLs YouTube Videos addresses iTunes links SMS messages Plain Alpha-Numeric Text Almost any information can be embedded……. What Can Be Embedded?

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Convert any long URLs into a QR code to make it easy for pupils to access a website Print QR Codes and hang them in the classroom for pupils to check their answers Advertise an event-write a blog post, embed the URL of the post in a QR Code, print it out and display it. Stick a QR Code into a book to give pupils access to additional information on the web, view a video etc. Create a treasure hunt around the school using printed QR Codes Classroom Applications

Make a classroom display interactive by including QR Codes Add QR Codes to worksheets/handouts Make a Webquest with the links all in QR Codes Put a link to a Google Doc in a QR Code Tell a story using Talking QR Codes Play Matching Games using QR Codes Classroom Applications

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