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Anna Cartwright, a French teacher in New York, recently shared this idea on the FLTEACH listserv:

I used QR codes with a classroom set of iPads at the MS level to have students practice following directions (with expressions like "Turn left" and "Turn right" etc.). I selected 9 locations around my school building and wrote directions from location to location, so the directions formed a sort of circuit as a whole. I placed each set of directions on a page of my website, created a QR code with the link to that page, and then hung the QR codes around the building.

Students worked in pairs for the activity. I gave them a map of the building to use as reference and a question to answer at each location so I could verify that they'd been there. I sent each group to a different starting point. Then I circulated through the areas they'd be likely to be passing through when stuck so that I could assist them with finding their way.

It was a ridiculous amount of work to prepare that lesson. It was also voted the students' favorite activity of the year, and the group that I did this with knew their right from their left in French better than in English.

Cartwright, A. Re: [FLTEACH] QR codes. FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 4 Nov 2014).