Book Blessings and QR Codes
July 6, 2011
QR code for Applied Simplicity
At our school students do book blessings. These are short, usually video, projects where students talk about a book they h ave read. They provide a snippet about the book and provide reasons why other students should read the book. Essentially these are commercials. The book blessings provide a great opportunity for students to practice summarizing and persuasive writing. In past years, iMovie or Photo Booth have been the tools of choice. Students would film their book blessing with a handheld video camera of Flip video camera, or the built-in camera on their computer. Once they were done filming they would import the footage, make necessary edits and post to a wiki.
Today, I had the opportunity to dig into iMovie on the iPad 2. Creating the book blessings using this tool will streamline the process, no waiting on an import. The students can upload the finished video to the wiki. The piece I am most excited about is we can use a QR code generator to create a code to link to each book blessing. The QR codes can be printed on labels and placed on the cover of each book in the library. As students are searching for books to check out they can use their iPad 2 with a code scanner app to scan the QR code and watch the linked book blessing.
