 Hi, welcome to the third episode of Tech Chat. Today we're going to take a look at QR codes and how they can be used in a classroom. We're going to visit Mrs. French's Spanish class at Thomas M. Ryan Intermediate to see how she's using QR codes to study Spanish vocabulary. A QR code is something that the kids are able to scan and it directs them to a link. The ones that I did directed the kids to different pictures of words that we were learning. I used them to review vocabulary we were learning. So my fifth graders and my fourth graders, fifth graders were learning verbs and fourth graders were learning adjectives. So I found a bunch of pictures online and then they'd go around and scan them, be directed to a picture and then they had to write the word in Spanish of the picture that they found. The kids loved it. They were so excited and wanted to use the iPads because it was the first time we had used them as a whole class. And they loved when they would find a picture. They tried to find really funny pictures. So they got a lot of enjoyment out of seeing what pictures I chose and then they had to figure out because some of the pictures weren't obvious especially for the adjectives. So it really made them think about what the word was and it helped them to come up with the words in Spanish which I hadn't had them do up until that point. It also really helped me see which words the kids were still struggling with because when they had to come ask me for help I made a note of that and then I could say, oh, I had to go back and teach this word because a lot of the kids weren't sure of that one. It didn't really take me that long at all to set up. The hardest part was the internet not going so quickly for me to find the pictures but once I found the picture I just went to the QR code creator website and made that, saved it to my desktop and once I had them all made I printed them so the whole process probably only took me maybe 15-20 minutes per class.