Learners will: • Implement the use of QR codes • Enhance knowledge and information sharing • Improve conversion optimization • Determine when it is appropriate to use QR codes • Demonstrate how to create QR codes in learning events.
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Dr. Kella B. Price, SPHR, CPLPPrice Consulting Group
@kellaprice
Session: TH209CSThursday, 1:45-3 p.m.
Caesar’s Palace, Neopolitan II
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Dr. Kella B. Price, SPHR, CPLP has 13 years of experience in training and development, and talent management functions. As CEO of Price Consulting Group, she is a trainer and facilitator. Kella has published on training delivery; social media; diversity; expatriates; and stress, job satisfaction, and employee turnover. In addition, she has designed numerous virtual training and development tools.
Kella is adept at using learning technologies, including: QR codes, blogging, Twitter, bookmarking tools like delicious, and social media networks like LinkedIn and Facebook. She regularly conducts training on how to use these technologies as a business tool for collaboration and building relationships. Her expertise has been included in several books, including: Virtual Training Basics, The Books of Road-Tested Activities, and Pfeiffer Annual. She regularly posts via twitter: @kellaprice and authored Twitter for Trainers, QR Codes for Trainers, and More Than 111 Twitter Twips. She has contributed to T&D magazine and is currently working on another book on social media.
To prepare for this session, please access your smart
phone’s application store and download a free QR
Reader.
Kaywa
ReaderBeeTagg Qrafter Bakodo
QRReader i-nigma TapReader ATTScanner
QR Droid
To scan a QR Code:
Open the QR Reader
Hold the camera steady over the QR Code
Most readers will open the code content automatically
TIP: Always have more than one QR Code Reader, so that you can check you QR Codes on multiple apps so that you can check your QR code for scannability. You don't want the end user to be frustrated due to a bad code!
QR Codes can be helpful to link your participants to reading material!
QR Codes can link participants to online videos you want them to watch!
ACTIVITY #1
www.tag.microsoft.com
Create your account first. (Please note you will need to sign up for a free account with scanlife.com in 2015 as they will be servicing Microsoft Tags at that time).
1. Open QR code in Photoshop. 2. Go to channels and duplicate one of them. 3. Apply a guassian blur of 2 or 10 depending on how much curve you want. 4. Press CTRL+L to pull up levels and change the black to 130 and white to 150. 5. CTRL+click the layer to select the white areas. 6. Using the select menu, invert the selection to select the non-white areas. 7. Create a new layer and apply a black fill. 8. Hide the old layer and voila. Curvy corners.
Watch a video on how to do this: http://bit.ly/RoundQRedges
Other ways to modify the QR code:
Texture effects
Add a company logo
Using different filters
Play with distortion tools in your graphic editing software
Samples at:
http://bit.ly/CreativeQRcode
http://bit.ly/ColorContrastQR
Generating QR Codes
• Youscan.me
ACTIVITY #5: Create a QR code with multiple actions