December+2011

== =***QR Codes in Education**=

This is a QR or Quick Response Code. Simply, put it is a 3D barcode. It's a much more sophisticated version of the barcode on your bag of Lays Potato Chips. QR Codes are popping up everywhere and are gaining in popularity in education.
 * What is a QR Code?**

[|Interesting Ways To Use QR Codes In The Classroom]-This presentation, started by the amazing Tom Barrett, has over 28 ways to use QR Codes in the classroom. Best thing here? If you come up with a different way in the presentation, you can add your idea.

[|QR Codes to tell a story] - This post I saw just the other day has several ideas on how students can create and use QR Codes to tell stories. Lots of lesson ideas and more QR Code resources here.

[|Using QR Codes In Student Projects]-The ladies over at Simple K12 recently wrote about post about using QR Codes in the classroom and give some quick examples. There are also some great ideas in the comments so be sure not to miss those.

=***Making QR Codes**=

//**Clean, simple, and easy to use!**// []

[] You can create color QR Codes to differeniate codes.... Blue for Math, Red for Science, or seperate colors by topics.
 * //Advanced...//**

//**Want to print your QR Codes on Labels:**// Save your QR code (Right click, save picture as, be sure to name it as it will contain no words) Follow these instructions to use labels with microsoft word []

//**Final Tip:**// You will need your student iPads to have AT&T Scanner.. (its free)