Creating and Using the QR-CUBE.

What is a QR-CUBE

As it is clear from its name, it is a cube containing QR codes on each side. By scanning each of the codes with a simple app that can be downloaded on a phone, we could save simple texts, pictures, videos and links to other sites.

How to use it: 

My colleague Hagop Karamian and I used the QR-cube in a lesson plan, where we decided to encode multiple choice questions in each QR. 

We wanted our students to play the game of answering these multiple choices, but without the part where they expect what the questions can be. If we had used a plain text cube, the students would have  seen the questions when it was their friends turn to roll, and he would have had an advance in thinking about the answer. But with the QR-Cube, this isn't possible, making the activity more exciting.

How to Create a QR-CUBE:

The first step is to generate a QR coed. The best site to do that is the www.qrstuff.com.

Once in the site, follow these steps:

1. Select data type, (for multiple choice questions, we chose plain text.)
2. The write the content you want to encode. You have the option to choose if you want your code to be static or dynamic, the first meaning that the QR-code you generate remains the same forever, while the latter gives you the option to change the codes content afterwards.
3. Choose a colour you want your QR-code to be.
4. The QR will generate itself on the right, all left is to download it.

Now that you have your QR, you can find a template of a cube online. Click here for a Template.

using tools such as Photoshop, put each QR in a square of the  cube, you can even use simpler tools such as Paint. And then print the template.

This should be the result till now.

All is left is to cut and complete the Cube's form.

Have Fun Using It In Your Classroom. 


Follow my Colleague Hagop Karamian through his blog ELAP (English Language Arts Pedagogy). He is knowledgeable in English studies.