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QR Code generators

You have many options for creating QR codes.  Some are free and some are fee-based.  Here are a few of the free QR code generators that I have used.

  • Google URL Shortener
    Only works with URLs. Keeps a log of all QR codes generated if you are logged in, and provides you with usage statistics. To access QR codes, click details.
  • Create QR Code (Google App)
    Allows you to use Text or URLs to generate QR codes.
  • bitly URL shortener
    Similar to Google. You need to sign up for a free account, but it will generate a QR code from a URL, and provides you with usage statistics.
  • MOJI-Q Maker
    Allows you to add text to the QR code image
 

QR Code Tutorials

 

Ideas for using QR Codes

  • For marketing purposes, shorten the same URL with both Google and bitly and release them in different venues.  Use usage statistics to see which is reaching more people.
  • Links to videos:
    • Integrate research into substantive classes with QR codes that link to related research tutorials.
    • CALI QR Codes
    • Library/Campus tours
    • How to set up wireless printing
    • Link to "How to use this resource" in the stacks
  • Contact information
    • Put on your door so if a student drops by, they can scan your QR Code, which will automatically open an email addressed to you
    • Conferences
  • URLs
    • Syllabus/1st Day readings posted on your door
    • Event Advertising
    • Bookmarks with information like how to renew your books
  • Scavenger Hunt clues
  • QR Codes: Uses in Libraries - http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=QR_Codes
  • 101 Uses for Quick Response (QR) Codes: Creating Audience Engagement with the Next Killer US App - http://blog.greattv.com/2010/06/101-uses-for-quick-response-qr-codes-creating-audience-engagement-with-the-next-killer-us-app/
 

More Information

Chris Lehan, Hit the Mark, American Printer, May 1, 2011 - http://americanprinter.com/mag/printing_hit_mark_0511/

Gwyneth Anne Bronwynne Jones, Hot QR Codes in the Classroom & Library, The Daring Librarian, Dec. 11, 2010, http://www.thedaringlibrarian.com/2010/12/hot-qr-codes-in-classroom-library.html

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