Scanning for Success: QR Codes in the Classroom

28 April 2016

QR Codes Defined

Quick-Response Codes

Visual web link

Classroom Uses

Use with little ones to decrease the need for typing.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Use with OneTab if you’re a Chrome fan.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Embed in Sway newsletters or use as a Sway self-run center.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Submit work to SeeSaw for portfolios.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Create scavenger hunts.

Classroom Uses

The Ideas:

The following three ideas are all hosted at this link:

Interactive bulletin board for when students finish early

Interactive word wall—listen in context, spell, pronounce, etc.

Share a video to help students engage with challenging content

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Host Milestones reviews.

Suy Lolley

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Use for behavior documentation by combining with Microsoft

Forms.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Administer surveys or allow them to practice typing for

Milestones.

Classroom Uses

The Idea: Conquer your email inbox with self-titled emails

How QR Codes Are Involved: website generates code with specific title

to email; those who scan email you from their mail program

Creating Codes

Where?

qrstuff.com

Custom colors to differentiate

Link to anything web-hosted

Snipping tool or download

Tips:

Make yourself an answer key.

Save the QR codes with an identifying name and order that correspond to the key.

Practice

Student finished early? Have him/her do the QR creation for you!

Create in Seesaw to include a preview to the item where the QR leads.

Creating Codes

Where else?

Qrexplore.com—many codes at once

OneDrive Classic View—set link options before

creating.

Creating Codes

Let’s create!

Pull up a saved Word or PowerPoint set of questions that you want your students to work on in the near feature.

Let’s begin turning the questions into QR codes.