Issue: 7:32

August 6, 2013

QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator

(from early June)

I have been in Common Core training for the last two days and am so pleased with this initiative to bring dignity, perseverance and evidentiary research to learning. I hear all the concerns and cries and hope to be a listener and discerner. As I learn more and more how to apply the Common Core standards in the classroom, I can see the benefits to the students, I can see the perception of the teacher concerns and can now better understand the framework. The Common Core Standards are not curriculum, but a creative and rigorous means to lifting our students into being productive, self-sufficient and contributing citizens. Not only was the training enlightening, but our facilitator, Karen Beerer, had a host of digital tools to help implement concepts in the classroom. This "tuesdays," the last one of this school year, is all about using QR codes with limited technology to generate any form of assessment or activities for your students.

A creative website

The QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator is one of the most fun FREE tools available to teachers anywhere. Although I have posted about the benefits of QR codes in a "tuesdays" - November 2011, there was a lot more work involved to create the QR codes that most teachers didn't even try. Now with this QR Code Treasure Hunt Generator, there is no end to the creative uses of QR codes in the classroom (for next year!) Our presenter set our 9 QR codes on each side of the room and it was our task to "read" any 5 of the codes to begin a scavenger hunt into the Common Core Standards. Any teacher of any subject with any questions can create a fun curriculum-based scavenger hunt that will have the students engaged and actively seeking answers.

An encouragement

With summer time coming soon, I want to encourage you to take a second look at the power of QR codes for the new school year. Can you imagine how nice Open House could be if you had QR codes with your syllabus, goals, and even a video introduction to your class hanging around the room? QR codes are a two-dimensional barcode designed originally the DENSO WAVE company in 1994, but it wasn't until the Japanese began experimenting with communicating with QR codes did they reach their tipping point. Basically, QR codes are barcodes on steroids! They are popping up on billboards, magazines, websites, TV and more. They are typically used in business, but they have incredible possibilities for the classroom. For a super graphic and simple explanation of QR codes, check out the Common Craft video explanation. This code above will begin a simple QR scavenger hunt just for you.

The i-Nigma app icon

How do you do that?

Using the QR code Treasure Hunt Generator is FREE, fun and simple. You don't need an account nor log in. You simple need to create a series of questions and they do the rest of the work. In fact, there are five codes below. If you scan them with any QR code reader (I recommend i-Nigma) and send your answers to me in email, I will do a random drawing before next Tuesday for a prize. Keep them guessing what's coming next!

Have a safe summer and spend time in renewal and with family. I will begin the "best of tuesdays" from this year next week.

What is "tuesdays with Karen"?

"tuesdays with Karen" is a weekly newsletter/blog designed to encourage, equip and empower teachers to be creative with educational technology. Please add your technology comments to my

"tuesdays with Karen" blog.

As always, I am
Ubiquitously yours,
Karen

Karen C. Seddon
www.ecubedcreative.com
tuesdayswithkaren.blogspot.com
tuesdayswithkaren@gmail.com
http://the16-9movement.blogspot.com/
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In This Issue

A creative website

An encouragment

How do you do that?

A proverb

"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."

Dean Kamen

An image to share

A tasty treat

Favorite websites ...

QR Code Treasure Hunt
Blooms Taxonomy
Pay It Forward Foundation
Pecha Kucha
Remind101
Bammy Awards
File Pigeon
Haiku Deck
Power2Teach
Answer Garden
Fair Use Evaluator
CBL
Reach Out & Read
Digital Learning Day
Kathy Schrock
PhotoPeach
Google's Cultural Institute
Screen O'Matic
Rock Our Word
KenKen
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
Read, Write, Think
Tech4Learning
Student Voice
iAppinar
Paper blogging
John Kyrk's Biology
Multiple Intelligence Test
CA Media Festival
US Census map
Skype in the Classroom
Talk to Me

IZZIT

Splashtop
Rock-It speakers
Scale of the Universe
iPad Livebinder
Bibme

Boom Writer
Project RED

Edmodo
Search-Cube
Not On the Test

The King Center
FIZZ

Calculation Nation

The Open University

Common Craft - QR codes 7 Billion