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Be sure that at least on person in your group has a mobile device that can read the QR codes on the worksheet! With your group, answer the questions in the handout.
This video is fairly long, at 10+ minutes, but it has some interesting ideas about how to use QR codes to have students collaborate on a storytelling project:
DISCUSSION: How would you want to use QR codes?
HANDS-ON: Create your own QR code(s) using QRstuff.
It's incredibly simple -- just select the type of data for which you want to create a code (website, video, phone number, etc.), then you'll be prompted for specifics, and presto, your QR code is created!
Books2Barcodes - from the website, "Books2Barcodes is an ongoing effort to convert all the world's great books to QR codes... Each work featured here is the entire text of a piece of classic literature translated into several thousand barcodes. With a mobile device equipped with a camera and a barcode-scanning app, you can experience the joy of a great book as read through 800-character fragments on your cellphone.”
7 Great Uses for QR Codes & How to Generate Your Own for Free(article)
Scansfer - Computer to phone, phone to computer, phone to phone -- mobile file transfer.
Linkstore - From MakeUseOf: "If you want to easily share files (pictures, MP3s, documents etc) between mobile devices, one way to go is using QR codes with a help of a mobile app called mfile. You simply visit their website (http://mfile.linkstore.ru), upload a file from your smartphone and get the generated QR code." Of course, you can also create a QR code at the Linkstore site on your computer, and then students can scan it with their phones.
More on mLearning (Mobile Learning) in and out of the classroom:
Here's an interesting way to think about mobile devices in your classroom -- what learning functions can they serve? In a 2009 blog post, Derek Bruff came up with five categories:
"...However, assessing the impact of smart phones on student learning is a bit like assessing the impact of chalkboards on student learning – it all depends on how the technology is used. I would be interested in seeing research on the use of smart phones in the following ways:
“Super-clickers” allowing for multiple-choice as well as free-response questions during class
Tools for student-to-student communication and collaboration during class (e.g. backchannel discussion)
Portals to the world outside of the class (e.g. Google jockeys)
Mobile platforms for delivering content (lecture notes, videos, texts, etc.) anywhere students happen to be
Tools for collecting and analyzing data (interviews, photos, scientific data, etc.) while out in the field"
What web resources are out there that would enable students' phones to serve these functions? Here are just a few samples:
Tools for collecting and analyzing data while out in the field: the camera/camcorder on your mobile device, as well as the ability to record audio, take notes, save & share files, and post information and media to a website or social network, are invaluable for field work. Many phones work with tools like Evernote (Notes), InkPad (notes), Dropbox (file storage and sharing), AudioBoo (audio recording), Delicious (bookmarking), Facebook (posting/sharing text, photos, and video), Google+ (posting/sharing text, photos, and video), PhotoBucket (storing/sharing photos & videos), Skype, Twitter (microblogging), YouTube (direct video upload)... and thousands of other apps!!
EVEN MORE RESOURCES . . . feel free to peruse this list of past workshops, including instructions on how to use the tools ("missing" sessions are those that were later replaced with significantly revised versions, or were for tools that no longer exist):
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