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Slides for my session today at openforeducation. More information to follow!
QR Codes: Applications in Education
Today was our big annual Winter Fayre. Unfortunately we had to make the agonising decision to postpone it due to the incredible weather that has hit the central belt of Scotland and beyond.
I would have been doing a QR Code session today so I thought I’d make a short screencast of what I would have delivered.
I give a brief overview of QR Codes, a quick look at how they are being used generally then move on to more educational examples, show you how to create your own QR Codes and finally talk about some things to think about when using QR Codes institutionally.
And here are the slides with active links that I used in the screencast above.
If you’ve got any questions or queries about QR Codes please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We’re here to help :-)
Other related QR Codes posts on this blog
QR Code Icebreakers
Simplifying your QR Codes for Easier Scanning
Shorten your URLs with Goo.gl
QR Codes – For the easily amused: me!
Some external QR Code links which may be of interest
Tom Barret’s Interesting Ways to use QR Codes in the Classroom part of a user-contributed series on ways to use learning technologies
Don’t waste your time Blog QR Codes: In the Classroom
TechDis: Upwardly Mobile: Getting started with inclusive mLearning QR Codes
Using QR Codes in Libraries
Speaking at Future Technology Now: the 5th annual SLIC conference for Further Education library and information staff in Scotland. Talking about QR Codes in libraries. Here’s my presentation. I’ve also added a live mindmap. More on that later.
A Plug for SMUG…
…and Scot-BUG too. Did you know there are two Scottish VLE User Forums? One for Moodle – SMUG and one for Blackboard – Scot-BUG.
The two Scottish RSCs and the Higher Education Academy hosted a joint user group meeting to, among other things, discuss the future activities and organisation of VLE user groups in Scotland. [Agenda]
Stephen Vickers from the University of Edinburgh led the session on the way forward for the groups by asking participants to vote via a voting handset (clicker) on various options such as having joint forum meetings, online meetings and special interest groups. The results will be available shortly.
In the meantime here are the joining details of the two respective JISCmail lists to keep up-to-date with the latest announcements of forum meetings, ask questions and share your knowledge.
SMUG (Scottish Moodle Users Group)
jiscmail.ac.uk/smug
Scot-BUG (Scottish Blackboard Users Group)
jiscmail.ac.uk/scot-bug
website: scot-bug.org.uk
