BUT HOW CAN I USE QR CODES IN SCHOOL?

You've chosen your generator and reader, so what now?  Is it possible to use QR codes in education?  The answer is most definitely YES.  I want to share two ways in which I have used them.  The first one is a children's story that I wrote titled "Willie Opossum: An Unfamiliar Tail".  Here are two passages with QR codes from the story.

"Deep within the Green Swamp of North Carolina hides a charming little place known as Possum Town.  “Why Possum Town?” you might be asking.  Well that’s simple.  It’s because all of its inhabitants are opossums or like we call them, “possums” for short".

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"Possums from miles around would come to Possum Town just to see him perform. He would be talking and all of a sudden it appeared as though he fell dead in his tracks.  The young and faint at heart would wail uncontrollably until he would hop up a midst all the loud mourning.  Why several times the undertaker was actually called to pick up his body.  To this very day, this type acting is still known as playing possum"

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Here is another way I plan on using QR codes in March during Celebrate the Arts.  Art teachers place labels on all pieces of artwork identifying the students, their school, title, medium, art instructor.  Well this year I want to add something else.  To each one of my students' label I want to add QR codes.  Why?  So that if anyone happens to have a QR reader app on their smart phone they will be able to see the piece of work and listen to my students talk about it.  Try it for yourself.

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Have any idea how I did it?  First of all I took a photo of her water fountain.  Then I went to Screenr.com where I have an account.  I opened up the screen capture and had Brittany talk about her piece while the image of the photo was being captured as well as her voice.  Then I copied the URL for this particular video where it is stored in my Screenr account, pasted it into Snap.vu and then created the QR code as well as the shortened link  You'll see it underneath the QR code itself.  I only have 40 some to do but since I've been doing them as the students completed their work, I already have created most of them.  Now all I have to do is print the codes and place them on the labels.

Now let's look at my third tutorial.