QR Challenge: CIS 101 2pm

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. What has larger screen areas, WiFi accessibility, and enough computing power to run versions of programs like Microsoft Excel? (Dianna)	Smartphones
2. Which smartphone provides a software-based keyboard that supports more than 40 languages? (Dianna)	Apple iPhone
3. Where is the Operating System of cell/smartphones stored? (Dianna)	Read-only Memory
4. What kind of chip is used to change analog sound waves into digital sound waves? (Dianna)	Analog-to-digital converter chip
5. Before digital cameras hit the market what kind of camera was most often used? (Daniel Helt	35 mm Single Lens Rflex camera (SLR)
6. what kind of sensors are used by a digital camera to capture images? (Daniel Helt)	Charge-Coupled Device (CCD)
7. How do you transfer images from your digital camera to your computer? (Daniel Helt)	A USB 2.0 cable.
8. What two file formats are usually used to store photos? (Daniel Helt)	RAW and JPEG.
9. What are the three leading antivirus software for mobile devices? (Brooke)	Symantec,MacAfee, and F-Secure
10. What device is most likely to get attack? (Brooke)	Cell/Smartphones
11. What do you do if there is no antivirus program for your phone's operating system? (Brooke)	Take precautions
12. Comcast, Verizon, Vonage, and Skype all offer what form of digital communication service? (Ryan)	Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP)
13. What does VOIP service depend on that ordinary landlines do not? (Ryan)	Electricity
14. What was the one MAJOR drawback to VOIP when it was first offered? (Ryan)	911 could not trace the calls
15. what do GPS use to pick up signals from satellites? (vanessa)	Antenna
16. there is a network of how many satellites that orbit the earth? (vanessa)	12
17. When you use a GPS in your car what are some feature that the GPS will desplay to help navigate you to your location? (vanessa)	turn by turn instruction, real time traffice information,current speed limit,and real time
18. Can you use GPS anywhere else besides a car?(vanessa)	smarthphone
19. Touch screen, keyboard, camera are all standard devices on _________ phones.(Taryn, Jarred)	Smart
20. Whats the largest leading software store for Apple and Android phones? (Taryn, Jarred)	Itunes,Android Market
21. Technology that uses radio waves to transmit data signals over short distances. (Taryn, Jarred)	Bluetooth
22. What is an internet conetivity plan (Obed)	Data Plan
23. What are the two standards that support fast data transfer (Obed)	3G and 4G
24. What is called to create a mobile hot spot (Obed)	MIFI
25. This software is used to enhnace wed browsingon mobile devices (Obed)	Microbrowser
26. what's E ink stands for?(sissy)	Electronic ink
27. what kinds of file formats are used the most in electronic publishing?(sissy)	Digital formats
28. what do eReaders do?(sissy)	notes taking, book marking or other supportin tools
29. Can you send an image thru SMS?	no, only MMS(yovany sanchez)
30. What is the technology used to send and recive message?	store and forward (yovany sanchez)
31. How many Words or characters are able to be sent using a SMS?	Only 160 Characters (yovany sanchez)
32. What type of device can play several hours of music or video and can store thousands of songs? (Samantha Kristen)	portable media player
33. How would a collective group of people listen to a single pmp? (Samantha Kristen)	audio reciever
34. Why aren't peer to peer sharing sites as popular? (Samantha Kristen)	some can be illegal
35. Where on the internet can you find sources of digital video? (Hannah Brown)	Google Video, Youtube, Vimeo, Hulu, Ustream.
36. When did all television stations switch to digital signal broadcasting? (Hannah Brown)	June of 2009
37. How can you record digital video that comes through your television? (Hannah Brown)	By using digital video recorders (DVRs)

 

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