An innovative approach to assessment – Romeo & Juliet QR Code Treasure Hunt at Parklands College (by Anthony Peters)
This is a guest post from Anthony Peters (@apeters522) who is an innovative English teacher from Parklands College in Cape Town. SchoolNet noticed his tweets about their English Department’s proposed Shakespeare QR code Scavenger Hunt Assessment activity with Grade 9 and asked if he would be willing to share this with us as a guest post after the event. We’re thrilled at the result. Thank you Anthony!
The QR Scavenger Hunt Assessment idea
The awesome English Department at Parkland...Read more
Who would have thought you could generate QR codes using Google Spreadsheets? It is the FAST way to generate a number of codes quickly.
How to generate a code using Google Spreadsheets
1. Log into Google and open your Google Drive.
2. Click on the Create button to the left hand side and select Spreadsheet.
3. Label column ‘A’ Information. This is where you will put the infomation you want the QR code to have, for example your text, video link, URL etc.
4. Label column ‘B’ QR Code. (Eventuall...
There are just so many ways that you can use QR codes in the classroom. Here are at least 20 great ideas from teachers around the world.
Before you start make sure that your students have access to the Internet. If they have a smartphone or tablet such as Android or iPad, they should have a QR code reader as well as a QR code generator downloaded. If they are using PCs or Macs they need to have downloaded a suitable tool such as QuickMark. My previous two blogposts can aid with these:
1. QR Codes #1: ...
QR codes are gaining momentum in today’s technology. Many teachers and classrooms are using the very successfully. This post aims to show how QR codes can be used on an Android and iPad device, a smartphone and also on a PC in the classroom.
What is a QR code
Recently I listened to a webinar presented by Steven Anderson on QR codes and I liked the way he introduced them. Here is a screenshot from the webinar.
A QR code is a ‘quick response’ move away from the keyboard to easily access in...
