Linking+QR+codes+to+iPad

From Dan Love, Commerce

The Apps that I demonstrated last Thursday at the staff meeting were:

AudioBoo (free) QRafter Pro ($2.99)

You can also find a FREE QR reader program and stop by a 2nd grade room to check out our projects.

Also below is the original email from ChartChums with the write-up of the procedure.


 * From: ** Love, Dan

 **Sent:** Tuesday, September 11, 2012 4:17 PM

 **To:** Entwistle, Tina

 **Subject:** iPad - QR codes

This is what we’re going to be doing. We’ll use the iPad to record the student’s voice – either reading a piece of their writing or talking about their work on a project/unit. We’ll then upload the audio file and generate a QR code that will be displayed next to the student’s work for parents to access with their SmartPhones.

We’ll probably also make a page with the links to the audio files so that those without a QR reader will still be able to access the audio files.

Thanks, Dan


 * From: ** chartchums [mailto:donotreply@wordpress.com]

 **Sent:** Monday, August 20, 2012 3:03 AM

 **To:** Love, Dan

 **Subject:** Weekly digest for August 20, 2012

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<span style="color: #888888; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">by [|__chartchums__] || <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">In full disclosure, this post comes with heavy coaching from an amazing teacher we met at the August Reading Institute, Alli Newell. Alli teaches in California at a school that values and supports technology in the classroom. She generously shared her tech knowledge with other first grade teachers in her section, and we wanted to pass on one tool that has huge applications in the primary classroom, for charts and beyond. Thank you Alli! <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You know those codes - they are black and white - and are everywhere! You can scan them with an ipad or iphone, or just about anything with an app. And those codes bring you to some sort of content (usually trying to sell you something). They look like this: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">A Sample QR Code <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Alli taught us how we can make those codes and attach them to audio content. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Consider this for a moment... All one has to do is scan this code with some sort of device, be it an iphone, ipad, or other app-enabled piece for equipment and it will talk to them. Now imagine: what if you put this code next to a display of children's writing, so parents could scan and hear their children //reading// the story? What if you placed it next to a display of student art and someone could walk by and scan the code to hear children talking about the process? What if you attached it to a book and made //every book// a book on tape? Just imagine, what could you use it for in reading workshops? Writing workshops? Homework? <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">The one catch is that to create and listen to the QR codes, one needs access to some sort of smart phone, tablet, or computer. Think though for a moment. How many families in your school have access to a smart phone? We know in some communities, computers and tablets are not as accessible to children outside of school, but smart phones may be more common. On the other hand, in some schools iphones may be banned, but many schools now have a bank of tablets that classrooms can borrow, and if not, there are many grants available to support technology in schools. We have worked in a number of schools that have gotten ipads through grant writing.
 * || || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> [[image:http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/6fee44d287f76e7d392c5276e0702dea?s=50&d=identicon&r=G width="50" height="50" link="http://chartchums.wordpress.com/author/chartchums/"]] || ==<span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 15pt;">[|__Here! Hear!__] ==

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> We imagine this first as a powerful tool for parents, QR codes on homework, student writing, bulletin board displays, etc, and as the year goes on, finding other smart ways to make this a meaningful scaffold for students: directions in a center, an audio post-it, a book on tape, an additional reminder on a chart... the possibilties feel endless! We are sure you have even better ideas, so once you learn how to use these tools, let us know what happens! <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will need two apps: QRafter Pro ($2.99) and Audioboo (free) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Download these two apps <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Open audioboo and click record on the homescreen, it will bring you to this screen: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">It will only record about 3 minutes at a time, and you can pause and resume recording at any point. Once you have captured the audio you would like (say a child reading his or her writing), hit publish. You will be prompted to name it, let's say "Kristine's Book" and then save and upload the recording. You then go to 'My Boos' and select one of your recordings. It will bring you to this screen: (Kristine recorded in Greenpoint- hello to fellow Brooklynites!)
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Step One: Download the Apps **
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Step Two: Record Audio Content **

<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Click on the upper right hand corner (box with arrow shooting out) to save it online. You will get several options, Alli suggests saving in Safari. To get there, clink on "More..." and choose Safari. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> This will bring you to the internet where your recording now happily lives, and you are ready for the next step - generating a QR code that will play this recording for people. Before you open QRafter, take a moment and copy the whole URL from the top of the webpage. URL codes start with http:// <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Once you have copied the URL, go to your home screen and open up the QRafter Pro app. It opens with option to scan an already existing QR code, go to "create" on the bottom menu instead. It will want to know where the content is: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Click on URL, and it will prompt you to enter the URL. Just click in the space and paste the URL you copied from before: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> Delete the extra "http://" and then select "preview content" from the upper right hand corner. This will show you all sorts of technical information that no one really needs to know, but from there, hit create in the upper right hand corner. This will generate a unique black and white QR code. Alli recommends saving it to your photos, and from there you can print it or email it. That's it! <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">To see what happens when you scan it, use your Qfactor app on the one below (You can do it on the computer) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"> It will let you know you have lined the code up right by bringing you to the URL page. Click on "Go to URL" under actions and hit play once you get there. <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">So, just to recap how to: <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">"Make it talk!" <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">"Make Your Own QR Code!" <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">We'd love to hear how you innovate with this technology in the upcoming year. Our deepest thanks to Alli Newell for teaching us about this tool. Until next time, Happy Charting! <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Kristine Mraz and Marjorie Martinelli
 * <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Step Three: Attach a QR Code **
 * 1) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. Open audioboo & click "Record"
 * 2) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Record (3 mins)
 * 3) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. Publish
 * 4) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4. Name it, save it, upload it!
 * 5) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5. Go to MyBoos & click arrow (upper right corner), then "More..." & save to Safari
 * 6) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">6. Copy URL
 * 1) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">1. Open the QRafter Pro app
 * 2) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">2. Click on URL & paste URL
 * 3) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">3. Delete extra "http://" & select "preview content"
 * 4) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">4. Hit "create" (upper right corner)
 * 5) <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">5. Save it to your photos
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