As I mentioned in my last post I got the idea to do a QR Quest, for my seventh grade orientation, from the Daring Librarian. I wanted to do this last year when we got an ipad cart in our high school, but I just never got it together with APPR looming in the air. I saw Sarah Olson's post that she created a QR Quest and I thought she's my inspiration to do my own. I have to thank Sarah for patiently answering all my questions. For the past few years I have had my seventh graders do a scavenger hunt around the library, so I used the Daring Librarian’s question template and tweaked it with some of my own questions. Sarah added two items I really liked, the screencast tutorial on using the PAC and taking a picture as an answer to a clue. I tried to incorporate the screencast tutorial, but our students can’t access youtube. I tried to get around it, by doing the screencast and uploading it to my website. I thought I had the solution, because when I went to the tutorial on my phone, it asked if I want to open it in Google drive and it worked. The problem was that when I made the QR code of the tutorial page, then scanned the QR code, the tutorial didn’t work. I ended up not using. I did incorporate using the camera to take photos for some of the answers to to the questions. When the students were finished with the Quest they then had to show us the photos. I added an exit slip to the back of my Quest with three simple questions. For my clues I took photos and then added callouts and other information I wanted the students to know. When the photos were set, I upload them to flickr. I used Kaywa QR code creator to make the QR code for each picture. I printed the QR codes, arrows, lightbulb clues on yellow paper. I then spread the clues around the library. I used this lesson for observation and it went very well.
Wow, what fun! Good to hear how it all went and that it was a success!
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