Use QR codes to promote reading and to enhance access to information to students.

2. QR Codes
In The
Library Revisited
Celesta Woodard
Librarian - Carolina Beach
Elementar y
Joann Absi
Librarian - Ashley High School

3. What are QR codes?
O Quick Response
O Created by Denso-Wave in 1994 to track
automotive parts
O 2D codes that do not need a specialized
scanner to read them.
O Scan with a smart phone or web cam
O Marketing/Advertisement Tool

4. They’re all around us!

5. We started with a collaborative project between
Ashley High and Carolina Beach Elementary schools.
AP Lit students
reading books,
writing
summaries and
creating QR
codes for books.
CBES students
scanning and
reading book
summaries
from QR codes.

6. Where To Begin
Sites for Creating QR Codes
O Kaywa
O Delivr
O QR Stuff
O Plan where to store original content
online, if you are not linking to
websites. A wiki is a good place.

7. URL Shortners
http://goo.gl/
bitly https://bitly.com/
TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/
QR Stuff
http://www.qrstuff.com/
If the shortener doesn’t come up automatically, click off of and back onto website url
option.
Using shortened urls makes a clearer QR code. The more
information in a code, the trickier it may be for certain devices
to scan it.

8. Ready, Set, Scan!
Phone Options
For iPhones For Androids Blackberry Windows
NeoReader Barcode Scanner BeeTagg BeeTagg
i-nigma i-nigma i-nigma i-nigma
ScanLife QuickMark QR Code Scanner Pro
NeoReader
TapMedia QR Reader QR Pal ScanLife Quickmark
Desktop Option: DANSL – this is a free desktop QR
code scanner application to be used with a web cam.

9. QR Codes In The Library
O Book Reviews
O Scavenger Hunt
O Collaborate with teachers
O Highlight new or special books
O Book display links
O Pathfinders
O Video tutorials
O Links to Library Webpage
O Calendar (This Day in History, Author Birthdays)
O Handouts

11. QR Codes in the Library
Codes link to OPAC
Media Center Webpage
Ashley Readers Blog

12. Bookmarks with QR code link to the Media Center Webpage.

13. Library Informational Pamphlet: QR code link to Media Center
Webpage

14. Endcase QR Codes
QR Codes link to Dewey Pages on Media Center Webpage that have relevant
Websites that tie in with that Dewey Section of Books.

15. QR Codes to Website Pages for More Research
Information

16. QR Codes to Special Sites
Khan Academy Homework Help
Eagle Review Form
Make QR codes to sites you want students to access quickly.

17. Genre and Author website links in Fiction sections

18. Provide more information with Book Displays – QR Code to
Steampunk.com for information and writings on Steampunk

19. Provide more information with Book Displays:
QR code to article on Dystopia .

20. QR code to YALSA’s Voting page for Teens Top Ten, there were
also small handouts with the code on it that students could
take with them.

21. QR codes on books can go to websites with more information,
author sites or booktrailers to extend the reading experience.

22. Interactive Bulletin Board: links to History Channel
Titanic videos.

23. Interactive Bulletin Board: link to Movie Titles Based on
Books.
(Mid-Continent Public Library).

24. Classroom Posters : Quick Access to information.
Can be used in all subject areas for quick introduction or
review.

25. Place QR codes
on handouts. This
handout is from
Freshman
Orientation
session. A
similar handout
like this went
home with
beginning of the
year packets.

26. Parent
Information
From the
Daring
Librarian

27. My QR Code Reader Station

29. Each classroom has a QR code that is for each Teacher’s
webpage.

30. QR Code Book Summaries
Posted on PBworks

31. What’s happening in the Media Center? Stay
turned!

32. Scanning the QR
code that goes to
ALA’s Banned
Books site.
AIG students were
getting ready for
Banned Books
Week by creating
book summaries of
banned books in
the Media Center.

33. QR Code Calendars
Use QR codes
and Calendars to
highlight dates in
history or author
birthdays.
Used Sweet
Search 2Day to
make this
calendar about
events that
happened each
day in October.

34. Why QR Codes Are
Awesome…
O 1. Link the physical world with the virtual
world
O 2. Support 21st Century Skills
O 3. Engaging tool to help students create and
contribute content
O 4. Fun, easy way to deliver content
O 5. Extend learning and provide remediation
and review

35. Make Voki Book Summaries
http://www.voki.com/mywebsite.php

39. http://animoto.com/projects

40. Reading and Watching Summaries of Books at
Library QR Station

41. Resource Site for Ideas - Pinterest

42. Resource Site for Ideas –
Scoop it!

43. Resources
http://creativecommons.org/
http://www.scoop.it/
http://pinterest.com/
Daring Librarian
Voki
Wordle
Animoto – Education
PBWorks
QRStuff
SweetSearch 2 Day
Ashley High Media Center Webpage
Ashley Readers Blog
Carolina Beach Elementary Webpage
Learn About QR Codes
QRCode Instructions and Example Book Summaries
QR Code Animotos

44. Thanks for coming!
Celesta Woodard
Carolina Beach Elementary School
Carolina Beach, NC
celesta.woodard@nhcs.net
http://www.nhcs.net/cbes
Joann Absi
Eugene Ashley High School
Wilmington, NC
joann.absi@nhcs.net
http://ashleyhighmediacenter.blogspot.
com