- A summer reading program that utilized a QR coded scale model of the solar system scattered throughout the community
- A program where seed packets with QR codes were distributed and the QR codes were placed next to the plants. The codes would point to pages about the plants and somehow the participants were encouraged to grow the seeds in places away from the community in their summer travels and then plotted on Google Earth.
- QR code scavenger hunts
Why a "reluctant wizard"? It is common for my co-workers to affectionately call me a "wizard" when I have fixed some kind of technical problem. I always try to be modest about any kind of supposed powers used in solving anything, but I am stuck with the appellation in any case. It seemed like a unique and apt description of myself for this blog.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
CIL - Day 3 - Building Community & Mobile Experience
This session, my last for Computers in Libraries 2011, was a mild disappointment. The first part of the presentation, done by Bonnie Roalsen and Ryan Livergood, Dover Town Library, was actually quite good, although short. Bonnie and Ryan described the use of QR Codes for various library programs in an affluent community with high cell phone/smart phone ownership. These programs included:
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