Friday, March 18, 2016

Audio QR codes

While using QR codes is a great way to share information with students and parents, hearing their teacher's voice makes students even more excited about engaging with the content! Since teachers can't be with every student every moment of class time, use QR codes makes it seem like there are multiple copies of the teacher in the room! Online voice recorders vocaroo.com This website is probably...
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Batch-create QR codes with Google Sheets

In some situations you might need to create a bunch of QR codes at once. Perhaps you are generating a series of codes from audio files for a rhyming activity or creating codes for audiobooks for your listening center. Creating a lot of codes manually can become a chore. Luckily, Google Sheets has an easy to use formula that lets you create those codes automatically. Log into your Google account and...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

What is black and white and scanned all over?

Embed from Getty Images A parent is looking at tonight's homework assignment on lattice multiplication and has no idea how to do it. On the homework sheet is the QR code to a video tutorial showing how it's done. Students looking through books in the school or class library turn to the inside cover and scan a QR code to hear an audio review of the book or watch a book trailer. These...
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