A Tutorial on Adding a Voice Recording to Your QR Codes

Each summer when I got my class list I would begin to handwrite a postcard for every single one of my students. My kids LOVED getting mail from their future teacher.  For many students, it was the first time ever for them to actually receive ANY mail! I strongly believe that this helps to build relationships with students and parents before the year even begins! You can read my previous post about Building Relationships Before School Starts.  I recently shared an idea over on my Instagram page about adding a QR code to the postcards you send to students. When students scan the QR code on the postcard, they will hear a recording of their teacher reading the note to them. I had lots of questions on how to add your voice to a QR code so I am here to share that today!

The first thing you will need to do is download a voice recording app to your phone. The app that I used is called Voice Record Pro and it was free from the app store!

Next,  go ahead an open up the app and simply record your message! When you're done recording save your file to Google Drive.

Once you've saved your voice recording, you'll need to log in to your Google Drive to grab the URL. Here's a quick video to show you how!

Once you have your URL, you'll want to go to a QR Code Generator Website. Simply paste in your URL and then click generate QR Code. Once it's generated you can either download the code or take a screenshot of it (like I did in the video above).



Last but not least, you'll need to add your QR code as an image into your Powerpoint file. :)

My Back to School Postcards are now fully editable. Included in this file is a PDF that you can print from if you choose to handwrite your cards. 

Also included is a PowerPoint file. In this file, you can write messages to each of your students by adding a textbox and typing out your message. I have also added blank copies of EACH postcard type so that you can add in your own textbox and customize the saying on the front of each postcard. There is a total of 16 different image options for you to customize with your own text. 

Aloha!

Instagram Mania

I'm a huge instagram lover. I originally started instagram to follow fashion gurus, now it's even better because teachers have been hoppin on that instagram bandwagon like crazy! 

I've been MIA from the blogging world for awhile now, but since  I've been busy catching up with all that I missed...I noticed that many of you have your very own instagram accounts. 

I've also been finding a ton of new blogs through the #teachertalktuesday hashtags.

 SO I'm officially linkin up with What the Teacher Wants and Apples and ABC's for their teacher talk tuesday's. I love that you can type in a simple hashtag and look at so many awesome pictures out there. I LOVE IT. I spent my whole morning today on instagram (instead of cleaning/prepping end of year stuff) looking for some of you and admiring some classrooms and anchor charts!! I've found and began following quite a bit of the blogs I follow on a regular basis...but want MORe. After this post, I'll be searching for moree of you to follow :)

 I was so excited to have officially made a page for my blog! 

Visit me here at http://instagram.com/teachinginparadise

I posted a few pictures this morning..but I have a ton more to come :D