QR Codes or Quick Response codes are used in many places today, including schools and libraries
As a librarian, I could have students create their own QR codes for making Book Reviews. We use Screencastify for a lot of our recordings, so students could record their book reviews and print out the QR code for their book reviews. They could add the QR code to the cover of the book for other students to scan and read. I like that you can resize QR codes to make them larger.
Our Upper School students now use their personal cell phones to unlock school doors and therefore have a QR code reader right in their pockets. They could do book reviews or other short assignments and podcasts Students can access teacher QR assignments. I also have started using a QR code for our Sophie Center Student Sign In. The Sophie Center space consits of the Innovation Center, the Duchesne Room (Middle and Upper School Library) and the Lower School Library. The QR Code sign in helps keep track of the students as teachers have access to the spreadsheet of responses.
Our lower and middle schools have access to iPads and the QR Code Reader so they can also make QR codes and use the QR Code Reader. This age group has used Flipgrid to record answers and comments and then the teacher can download a QR Code to their comments. One year, I had the little ones record themselves telling what they would like to be when they grow up. I then downloaded the QR Codes and made a bulletin board of their answers. All the students had fun!
For this assignment, I created a QR Code for a review of Copyright and Fair Use and QR Code for a book reading.
QR Code Examples
1. Copyright and Fair Use QR Code
Below is a poster that I made above the copy machine in the liabray. It has the QR code for Copyright and Fair Use Information. This could help students who want to review copyright rules before they print. The poster would allow for easy and quick access to copyright rules.
The QR Code opens up to the following information. Here is the link.
2. Storytime QR Codes
I often split the library groups in half so one half can do book slection and checkout and the other can do an activity on their iPads. In the past, I have set up a bulletin board with QR codes to readings of Christmas Books. Following this idea, I can set up some book covers with QR codes attached so, the group that is waiting for book selection and checkout, can scan a QR code and listen to the story.
How Alma Got Her Name
Here is the larger QR Code for a book reading of How Alma Got Her Name by Juana Martinez Neal. If I made several of these recordings, lower school students would have a choice of some books to listen to on their iPads. Half the class could access this resource, while the other half of the class is checking out books. Here is the link to the book readin and below is the picture of why should open on the student’s iPad when they sa=can the QR code.
