A fabulous way to utilize quick response tags in the library is to have them on the inside of novel jackets. Any student could have instant access to the author's biography, website, or blog if these exist. Accessing author commentaries and videos and applications such as Google Lit trip would help add interest to the novel. Also, students writing essays, such as character analyses, could have access to scholarly reviews and/or journal articles instantly with the click of a button.
For younger students, setting up a geography scavenger hunt could help make learning fun. Quick response tags could begin in the classroom and end in the library with clues as to which country they must find. Once they make it through the scavenger hunt, the last quick response tag could have a video about various aspects of that particular country, such as cultural values, with which to end the lesson.
I love your ideas for QR tags, Kelly! I was initially a little leery of using this technology in the library and didn't see how it would work since cell phones are almost completely banned at my high school campus. Such a sad policy when there are so many great uses for cell phones. (Yes, even in the classroom!) Another sad fact is that our head librarian at the high school loved to discard book jackets. Can you believe that? She thinks they just get in the way and the students don't take care of them very well. Which you have to admit, she had a valid point there. I think if more book jackets had QR codes, like you suggested, she wouldn't be so quick to throw them out and our students could be so much more involved in what they were reading. More publishers should have QR codes printed on books!
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