QR CODES“SCAN YOUR WAY TO

ENGAGEMENT”

Presenter:

Pamala Heller

Woodland High School/ Kennesaw State University

What I hope you get from this session:

• What is a QR code?• How do I make a QR code?• How can I use QR codes to engage

students?• How can I pair Google Drive with QR

codes to help make my job as a teacher more effective and efficient?

• Sample classroom engaged with QR codes.

Get Out Your Devices!!!• Go to your “app store”

(Wherever you download new apps to your device)

• Go to the search box and type: Scan

• Regardless of the type of your device, the first one (or one of the first) should be the one shown to the right called Scan

• Hit Download! It’s FREE

Note: There are others out there, but this is just one I have found to work the best.

A QR code gives you QUICK RESPONSES through various forms of media and outlets.

Two Types of QR CodesDYNAMIC:• Most used when you are linking a code to a webpage

URL that has a chance of changing or that you know will change

• If you use a dynamic code and then the URL changes, you DO NOT have to change the code you have already made.

STATIC:• Most things you will do in your classroom and elsewhere

will work fine with this type• If you link a webpage to a static code and the URL

changes, YOU MUST change the code.

Different ways to use QR Codes• Pictures

• Text• Videos• URL Links• Contact information• And much more!

How can I make QR Codes?

• http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

• User Friendly• No Clutter Webpage

• http://www.qrstuff.com/

• More Options to Code From• Color and Picture Backgrounds for Codes

Note: There are other sites out there that will allow you to do this. However, these are the two I have found to be the most effective.

You Can Even Make Fun Codes!

Instruction Enhancement/Student Engagement

• Interactive Vocabulary• Completely student led activities• Communication and Collaboration• No more “I didn’t do my work because the sub

couldn’t help me” (or at least less of this )• Student led remediation of topics they don’t

understand• Send them straight where you want them

instead of navigating through search engines

Samples of QR Codes in the classroom

Students are able to engaging using their

cellphones /smartphones

Result of QR Code Activities:

• Students were more actively engaged in their own learning.

• More student to student conversations happened instead of student to teacher

• Students are naturally competitive and tend to use this competition to push each other through the activity.

• Many students who usually give up very easily while working tended to persevere more through these interactive activities.

• Even if students didn’t have devices, the other students were very quick to lend their devices for use to these students thus creating an atmosphere of positive learning and peer interaction.

• Students are eager to have more freedom to work on their own and help each other through the problems since they have answers to check with.

• You can become a fly on the wall to the learning experience of the students instead of the sole deliverer of information, and the students were awesome teachers to each other!

Teacher Effectiveness and Efficiency of using QR Codes

• Open house smoother transition• Parent information surveys• Student information surveys• Sign in records• Your contact information

• Record keeping is a breeze• Student tutoring sign-ins, sign-ups, etc.• When parents ask did they come…

• Interactive data collection• Have students complete summarizers through QR• Give students questions/notes through QR for assignments

Using Google Drive to make Codes more relevant

• Look at how easy it becomes to have students sign in to tutoring, test retakes, etc. through making a Google forms!

• After a few days, students were accustomed to signing in via their electronic device and needed little to no reminding to do so!

So, how do I make this awesomeness!!????

Go to drive.google.com

Sign-in or Sign-up!!

Click New,

then click More,

then click Google Forms

Then choose the various options t insert responses, change theme, title form, etc.

• Once you have clicked choose response destination, Name the spreadsheet what you want.

• Click on Always create a new spreadsheet, and you will never have to do this process again! It will automatically generate a response spreadsheet when you create the form.

• Click Create

• Your responses will now be added to the spreadsheet as they get submitted for ever and ever! You can always make changes to it yourself as well.

You will now have a response document (spreadsheet) listed in your Google Drive with the link to the form you created.

When you are ready to send this survey through email OR to create the QR code for it, hit send form.

Copy this link into your email or copy it into the QR Generator you use online!!Then just save the QR code and print it out!

Sample of sign in spreadsheets once the students filled out the survey/sign in form

Student thoughts: QR Codes/Class Integration

• “I like it. It makes the class different.”• “It helps me learn faster”• “I really like them. It gets us more involved in

class and makes me more excited for class”• “I like it because it is fun but still educational at

the same time”• “I like the idea of the QR codes and I think we

should continue to use them. It is a more fun way to do my work”

Student thoughts: QR Codes/Classroom integration

• “It is helpful but can be difficult to use”• “I like using QR codes because it’s a

great way to use your phones for something other than e.g., texting, twitter, Instagram”

• “I don’t think that it matters because I don’t have an iPhone or thing with a scanner, and if you are not technology smart t doesn’t help you”

• “I like it but I don’t have a scanner so I have to use other peoples phones”

Questions and/or comments!!!