The document discusses using QR codes in ESL classrooms. It provides examples of activities where students scan QR codes to access reading passages, vocabulary definitions, essay paragraphs, and clues in a scavenger hunt. The document advises shortening URLs when creating QR codes and testing codes before classroom use. Benefits of QR codes include saving time, convenience, excitement and variety in lessons, while a con is they are useless in classrooms without technology or internet access.

1. QR Codes in ESL Classroom
By
Ms. Aisha Aslam
ESL Instructor/ Teacher Trainer
Princess Norah University, Riyadh, KSA
“Let’s Collaborate”
KSAALT RC Mini Conference, March 04,2017
Al Faisal University, Riyadh, KSA

2. • Explore what Quick Response Codes are
• Discover some options to create these codes
• Carry out tasks using QR Codes
• Discuss ways to integrate this technology in
our lessons

4. Jigsaw Reading with a Twist
• Please sit in groups of 5
• Pick a question from 1 to 5
• Scan the code that has the same number as
the question you picked
• Summarize the answer on the Summary Table

5. Feedback?

6. SPEAKING BINGO
1. Pair Activity
5. The first one to shout BINGO, explains
the vocabulary activity described by the
blogger to his/her partner
4. Shout BINGO once you’ve read the blog post
3. Read the blog post
2. Scan the code

8. Feedback
Variations

9. Let’s Decode!
• What’s the link about?

10. Essay Writing Review
Split a sample essay into
paragraphs
Assign each part ( Introduction, Body
Paragraphs, Conclusion) a separate QR Code
Give each student a QR Code
Students have to identify what part of
the essay did they get

11. Scavenger Hunt
• Instead of placing the clues around the class,
place a QR Code that takes the students to the
next task

12. Guided Discovery Idioms
• Give idiomatic expressions (used in sentences)
to the students
• They scan the codes and match them with the
correct meanings by scanning the codes posted
around the class
• Students try to guess the meanings from the
context
• Each idiom will have its simpler meanings
linked to a QR Code

13. Bonus Tips
• When creating QR Codes, shorten the URL
links using services like ‘bitly’ or ‘goo.le’
• When entering the URL in the QR Code
generator, make sure the typing field is empty
and there is no ‘http://’ already typed in.
• After generating your code, don’t forget to
test it before using it in class!

14. PROS
1. Saves time
2. Convenient
3. Exciting
4. Brings variety
CONS
1. Useless in no technology/
internet classrooms

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