QR Challenge: Computer Applications Semester Exam

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.

2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.

2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.

3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. True or flase, if I am using privacy settings and only letting my friends see my profile, nothing can get out	false
2. True of false, posing as someone else on a social networking site may be against the law	true
3. True or false, if you take down your profile, the information is no longer available	false
4. True or false, college recruiters, admissions people and potential employers often look at an applicant\\\'s social networking profile	true
5. True or flase, a friend accuses you of ruining his college application because of a video you took of him doing “stuff” at a party. At the time, you posted it to your personal page of your favorite social networking site but later took the video down. Can the friend be right that the college somehow found the video?	true
6. True or False, when Facebook began you needed an email that ended in what extension?	edu
7. What college was Facebook started at?	Harvard
8. An advantage to using a spreadsheet rather than a calculator is?	flexibility
9. When typing an equation or formula into a cell within a spreadsheet, the first symbol entered is?	equal sign
10. The intersection of a row and column is?	cell
11. Columns are labeled with?	letters
12. Rows are labeled with?	numbers
13. A cell labeled F5 refers to?	column F and Row 5
14. What is the name of the word processing program we use in class?	Open Office Writer
15. What is the name of the spreadsheet program we use in class?	Calc
16. What do we call programs like Open Office that are available online and free to download and share?	open source
17. In Open Office Writer, you can save files in many different formats including as a Microsoft Word doc file?	true
18. Although Microsoft Excel and Open Office Calc share many features, you can only use Macros in Microsoft Excel?	false
19. Give an example of when you would use a footnote in Writer?	answers will vary
20. When you insert the title or any other information at the top of your page, like page number, etc. what is this feature called?	header
21. What type of indent is used on a reference page?	hanging
22. True or False, you can sort paragraphs in alphabetical order in Writer?	true
23. How many columns did we use to create our brochures?	3
24. When creating a two page brochure, the front of the brochure will be in what column on the 2nd page?	3rd
25. This is the program we used in class to create posters?	Print Shop
26. List 3 types of charts that can be created in Open Office Calc?	answers will vary
27. True or false, you can change the font size on the legend of a chart?	true
28. QR codes were first created in what industry?	automotive
29. Name 2 uses for QR codes?	answers will vary
30. True or false, you can edit a document when you have opened it as a read only?	false

 

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