Into the Driver's Seat

by Silvia Tolisano

 

"I shared a very successful collaboration between our Art teacher and Language Arts teacher in a previous post titled Transliteracy: QR Codes and Art as well as at several conferences and workshops I was leading in the past few months. To follow up on several requests by teachers and workshop attendees, I have created a easy step-by-step how to guide /info-flyer, if you would like to record your students and create QR codes to point to these audio files.

 

"The examples screenshots are from  Garageband (on a mac) and AudioMemo on the iPad. You can of course record the audio with any other app, program or device you have and are comfortable with using, editing and creating an mp3 or wave file."

by Vicki Davis

 

"QR Codes(Quick Response Codes) are just barcodes. There is nothing fancy about them.

"Just like the grocery store clerk uses barcodes to look up the product and scan the price into the computer, your mobile device or computer can look up QR codes to:

take you to a website, read some text, give you a phone number, or generate a text message.

"QR Codes are barcodes of information that hardlink the physical world with the online world. They are considered a form of simple augmented reality.

"QR Codes in the Classroom 
For the classroom teacher, they are valuable for three reasons:

They can save us time.They can save paper.They provide a link to mobile devices that help students do their homework and follow along.

"This Post.
This blog post is divided into three parts. First, you have to be ready to use QR Codes, then you have to teach the students. Finally, we learn seven ways QR codes are being used in the classroom RIGHT NOW."