I was VERY excited to create my own QR code this week. As mentioned in this week’s lecture, I know that they have been around for quite some time, but I never really got around to using them in my everyday life until the pandemic. Not only in education, but restaurants and businesses started using them too. I like that they are easy to use and I think that even more so than in the classroom they could have a lot of purpose in library settings. At my school library, the librarian uses them for ebooks. Wherever the library also has an ebook copy of whatever print book might be on the shelf she will display a QR code for students to scan with their phones. I absolutely plan to implement these in the future!

Here’s the QR I created which links to my Digital Learning Assignment that is very much still a work in progress! 

For my virtual field trip I did the 7 New Wonders of the World and the history teacher in me thought about World History and Geography classes right away! The partial Google virtual field trip that I took was very user friendly and I think that it could also be used in lower grades. My school does have a class set of VR goggles, but when those are in use I think this would be a great way to engage more visual learners. Rather than a more traditional ‘webquest’ assignment, students can use virtual field trips to find out more about the places and things that they are learning about in class.