Happy Friday everyone,
Recently, during our daily five rotations my students have been having difficulty accessing (and staying on) the webpages I have assigned for ‘Listen to Reading’. I often set up the iPad on the Tumblebooks, or other website I wish to have them choose a story to listen to, and once the story is over, they are unaware of how to return to this page to access another book. As a result, I have begun utilizing QR codes to assist students in accessing the webpages I would like them using.
These QR, or Quick
Response codes are popping up all over the grocery and retail stores and now
they are making their way into education as well. They are a type of bar
code which allows a ‘reader’ to link to related information in the form of a
website. By installing an app with a QR scanner/generator
(such as ‘Qrafter – QR Code and Barcode Reader and Generator’ - free), teachers
can create their own codes and have students scan them to access websites
quickly and easily.
By visiting a QR code
generator website (http://www.qr-code-generator.com/) and entering the web address of the page I
would like ‘coded’, a unique QR code is created which you can download and
paste into a document. Once the document
has been printed out, students simply scan the code with the iPad and it takes
them right to the page I want them to be on quickly and easily – and with out
interrupting the conferences I am having with students.
With December right
around the corner, I have decided to begin celebrating the holidays early with
a draw for a $25 LCBO or Tim Hortons gift card! To enter simply click on the
following link and enter your email address. http://goo.gl/7tzqx4 I will draw a random name on Thursday,
December 4th and announce the winner in next week’s Tech Tidbits.
Good Luck and have a
great week!
Stace
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